Hi all, As far as I’ve described the issue in my initial post , everything works perfectly. Now I’ve tried to resolve the following thing myself, but the solutions I’ve found, don’t really work with what I got so far. The issue: I need the instances to bend with the curvature of the… curve. Below…

Here is a bit compilated setup that beds instances, also alights it to mesh normals [image] curve deform.blend (365.2 KB)

I’ve now watched and read a bunch of geo node tutorials and I still can’t say that I understand how everything works. Now I’ve established that I can’t solve this by myself and need some help or a solution from the community. If I use this method, the alignment (facing X towards curve tangent and Z…

Hi all, I’m trying for a while to align some arrays to surfaces in blender using geometry nodes. In my initial post I got help to resolve the orientation issue I had. It felt like my third eye opened, I achieved enlightenment and finally understood the secrets that were hidden from me. But soon I…

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This is a method I first saw suggested by @stray but I cannot find the post it was from: [image] …This is the simplest method I’ve come across for aligning center-aligned objects on a curve. You’re basically resampling the curve to the dimensions of the object you’re instancing and then you capt…

This is very cool and a great method to know (I can already see where I can use it), but sadly it is not what I’m looking for. The curve has to be extracted from the mesh, otherwise there is a possibility that the arrayed objects intersect with the underlying mesh if the curve segments don’t match w…

You can try this curve-tilt node-group: [image] "Z-Up Curve Tilt" NodeGroup for Blender 3.0 (Geometry Nodes) Tutorials, Tips and Tricks Note on an update to file at the beginning of this thread: This node-group now supports a “custom alignment vector” input, allowing for …

That’s a rabbit hole I have to go down first. I hope I manage to grasp it all :sweat_smile: I might get back to you with followup questions, or a thank you if it works out. Thanks for the reading material for now :+1:

Sorry, you can probably avoid the rabbit hole and just use standard nodes: [image] Here selecting the middle loop of edges and instancing a cube on it… trick is to combine the edge direction hint mentioned above with capturing the mesh edge normals. Good luck.

Good morning! I was AFK for the weekend and didn’t see your reply. Thanks again! I see the alignment to the surface normals and that’s great, but I still don’t see where it makes the instances deform with the surface too? Right now this is happening…: [image] … but I need this to happen: [ima…

Hello this quick node setup may help you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR8zSQuQW9A

How to make instances follow bend of the curve

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zeroskilz December 9, 2022, 4:23pm 7

You can try this curve-tilt node-group:

If you use the normal as the reference vector the instances will align to the surface.

Good luck.