Animation Nodes

pecador · October 13, 2015, 8:53am

Let me suggest an interpolation socket.

Leon_Cheung · October 13, 2015, 8:58am

Sure, will add it in next version.

Leon_Cheung · October 13, 2015, 12:41pm

Now v4 is out. A lot of things added. TBC.

Architectural_Animation_v4.blend (218 KB)

bliblubli · October 13, 2015, 2:00pm

Whoa, nice job guys

3pointEdit · October 13, 2015, 2:22pm

How do you determine the order of appearance of object parts? Is it group order or name order?

Looch · October 13, 2015, 5:21pm

Amazing leong!, cheers to you!

Leon_Cheung · October 13, 2015, 8:41pm

@3pointEdit I determined the order by sorting in-group object for each group. There are currently a few sorting rules (single axis, single point, random). Right. Sorting by name is another nice option to have. I think could be added later.

Btw, I personally love the Type #2 (build from/to single point)

Leon_Cheung · October 14, 2015, 7:54am

A crazy torture on Animation Nodes… ITSELF!

Forgive me Jacques… :evilgrin:

Looch · October 14, 2015, 8:28am

aaaaaahahahahahahahaha, it reminds me of Dr. Epilepsy!

Jacques_Lucke · October 14, 2015, 9:18am

Very impressive Leon … and funny
I put your architecture animation in the showreel.

If you still have a video made using AN please share it today (at the very latest tomorrow). The editing of the demoreel slowly comes to an end.
I plan to publish it during the Blender Conference.

dimitarsp · October 14, 2015, 11:45am

Thanks for this, Leon.

I am, then wondering, how to get started on using the Curve tools?

Benji72 · October 14, 2015, 12:09pm

Hi everyone ! It’s my first post on blenderartists, and I have been following this thread very closely because I think animation nodes is almost as if we had an ICE tree inside Blender. I think that everything-node is the future of 3D, so I’m glad that Jacques Lucke add-on exists and hope blender foundation will try to go in this direction from now on.
I would also show you a whirlpool “modifier”(combined with a ocean modifier) I translated from Softimage ICE (I forgot who did the compound sorry) into animation nodes:[ATTACH=CONFIG]404645[/ATTACH]
Here is the animation: https://vimeo.com/142284139

The performance is not too bad(250ms for 150k poly and 800ms for 1million poly) but I don’t know if there could be ways to optmize manipulation of high vertex and poly counts.

Also great job Jacques with your add-on, and sorry for the bad english, I hope I was understandable.

Benji72 · October 14, 2015, 2:16pm

Srry double post…

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pecador · October 14, 2015, 2:29pm

Benji72:

Hi everyone ! It’s my first post on blenderartists, and I have been following this thread very closely because I think animation nodes is almost as if we had an ICE tree inside Blender. I think that everything-node is the future of 3D, so I’m glad that Jacques Lucke add-on exists and hope blender foundation will try to go in this direction from now on.
I would also show you a whirlpool “modifier”(combined with a ocean modifier) I translated from Softimage ICE (I forgot who did the compound sorry) into animation nodes:[ATTACH=CONFIG]404645[/ATTACH]
Here is the animation: https://vimeo.com/142284139

The performance is not too bad(250ms for 150k poly and 800ms for 1million poly) but I don’t know if there could be ways to optmize manipulation of high vertex and poly counts.

Also great job Jacques with your add-on, and sorry for the bad english, I hope I was understandable.

Men, thats awesome. Should be included in the AN Showreel

Jacques_Lucke · October 14, 2015, 2:33pm

Hey Benji72,
welcome here in the thread
You animation looks good and I would be interested to see the code you wrote. Unfortunally the Attachment link doesn’t work… Can you correct that? 250ms for 150k polys is already quite fast… Not sure if we can make that even faster.
btw: don’t wonder when your first 10 posts take some time until they will be published.

@dimitarsp: All the curve nodes are in the spline menu in the current master version.

Benji72 · October 14, 2015, 2:57pm

@pecador Thank you !

@Well there is no code writing in my node setup, only “basic” (just looked for the logarithmique spiral on wikipédia ^^) math and vertex position data. I don’t know if it’s a bug :s (for the jpg file i’m trying to post).
Concerning the performance, it’s very good I was kind of impressed that my node setup would work that well but I have seen Cython’s performances with the molecular and cubesurfer add-on(which deals with a lot of particles and collisions), I don’t know what is your point of view on this subject.
Also, do you plan on integrating raycasting(bvh trees) nodes? I’m working on a self collide deformer and my python skills are a little bit rusty ^^.

burnin · October 14, 2015, 4:03pm

@Benji72
Wooouuu. . .:eek:. . . :yes: Nice work! Thank you.
Though attachment is not available. Would really like to learn how.

Benji72 · October 15, 2015, 12:50am

@burnin: Thanks man!

I wanted to add a little precision to my scene, I’m using a Ocean modifier on top of the whirlpool node setup. I’ll share my scene soon but I have to clean it up a little bit. Also @Jacques: Srry I have mistaken, It’s not 150k poly(I forgot that there was a subsurf modifier on the object) its 15k poly for 250ms and 800ms for 40k poly. That’s why I was wondering about gain of performance(like using Cython on certain nodes like lists creation and interactions).

knekke · October 15, 2015, 1:38am

Here is a superquick setup for something I wouldn’t have dared in Blender without AnimationNodes…took me approx 7.5 minutes to put it together! Awesome job Jacques!!!

Jacques_Lucke · October 15, 2015, 1:43am

@Benji72
Oh than I understood you wrong, sry.

I don’t think that I can use Cython in this addon because the Addon highly depends on the dynamicness of Python. I’m not sure if I can compile Cython code at runtime. Also I don’t want to have different AN version for each platform.

Yes I plan to integrate BVH very soon. It will be in the same menu as KDTree.