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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 11h

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 11h

Here's how to scatter objects in Blender 5.0 with just a few nodes ✨

Instance scattering in blender

Blender 5.0 is coming to save us from the spaghetti hell! Here’s a ridiculously simple blender 5.0 node setup that scatters objects on the surface of a mesh inside of the volume of some other mesh: An...

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 15h

FOR FREE?? IN THIS ECONOMY??? :O

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 16h

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 18h

didnt know that existed, thats cool

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 21h

I'll make sure not to start messing with that then 😅

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 21h

I dont need it to run discreetly, I like being able to easily see everything that I run + its output just by looking at terminal tabs

passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 21h

TRUEEEE

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22h

this is how I do daemons btw

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22h

same, I often save things like that to notes

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22h

nice!

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22h

pft that's for weak people

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22h

but you have wsl

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22h

haters will say ffmpeg is hard to use

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

unlikely, there's nothing platform-specific in that reimport logic

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, probably. I think it was implemented just by adding a fixed half second timer but it breaks when it's trying to reimport before the previous reimport finished

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

can be buggy tho

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

meant the geometry doesn't need subdivisions for this method to work

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

thank you 🙏

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

yeah it can, although I'm not sure this would be useful for lod

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

blender 5 added some new geometry nodes that make it much easier to scatter trash and vegetation around. I'll make a blog post later to explain in detail!

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

WAIT! sampling from sdf after fillet basically gives you geometry-independent AO grid 😮

blender 5.0 is bussin 🤯

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

this is blender

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

instances dont count towards those stats, those are unique verts

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