Nodevember22 Prompt 3: Oceanic Wonder; Mangrove
Really Like the Out come of this, and it’s quite fun to render with fish-eye 
Was revisiting Erindales ‘Advanced Geometry Nodes Course’ for this, which i can highly recommend! was a the perfect warm-up for Nodevember. Also it made a good base for those mangroves
Here’s a Turntable: (ignore me calling it prompt 4! ;D that edit function wouldn’t be bad)
https://twitter.com/Pleebs_xyz/status/1590451147923689473
Process:
First i created the Leafs with shader-nodes
https://twitter.com/Pleebs_xyz/status/1589625929432588289
For performance sake i baked 3 variations of it, and created an Atlas with Compositor.
In Hindsight i should have oriented all leaves the same way, in order to use Tangent Space- Normal Mapping, instead of Object Space, which breaks when realizing Instances.
So i could not use Noise Displacement on the leafs. So i cheated my way by modelling the Leafs by hand; and giving them a bit variation.
Geometry Nodes part is mainly revisiting Erins Course, which i again can highly recommend!
And making it a Mangrove.
I’ve created a rudimentary branch- group ( nothing special) and Instance a few variations of it.
Also I am using 100drips great new Clean-up trick for Shortest Path. which helps a lot with the geometry-weight of the roots!
More Pictures; Wireframe, etc:
probably still a bit too high for exporting, but the clean up really works wonders!
Going to skip ‘futuristic Garden’ for now to catch up for once. Gonna do it later, it’s a nice prompt!
Happy noodling y’all!
Cheers,
pleebs