Geonodes auto generate colection

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It would be a lot cleaner with loops, but here is how I did that:

Nodevember 2022 - lessons learned

Here’s another one that I used to make the debris clouds in the space junkyard: [image] Last year, I struggled with randomizing instances to scatter. I had to make several objects with a node group, put those in a collection, then use that collection as a source of instances to scatter. This year, I figured out a way to do all of that in one node tree. Here’s the file, if you want to check it out: INSTANCE DUPES.blend (995.7 KB) - CC0 license If anyone knows a more robust way to separate g…

You probably wouldn’t want to go all the way up to 1000 instances with the way this is setup, though. you could maaaaaybe get it to 100, but that’s probably pushing it. Also, keep in mind that the more individual meshes you have, the more performance it will take. Instancing is fast and powerful because it relies on the instances being identical.