Aligning instances to mesh normals

[deanodirector (ollie)]

Hi, i know this has been asked a hundred times already but I can’t figure it out from the answers i’ve found.

I’m using mesh to points and then instance on points. I want to instances to align to the normals of each of the faces the point was on.

I really wish blender would make this simple by making it the default behaviour.

[Zebrahead]

Hi Ollie,
if you’re using the Mesh to Points node you can simply capture the Face Normal before that and use a Align Rotation to Vector node to get the rotation:

[deanodirector (ollie)]

that’s it, thanks! I wish it was the default for points to have normals where they were placed