Tao (Red Giant) pluggin ... something similar in Blender?

Rostropovich · October 4, 2021, 11:03am

Hallo !

This is a very simple, cheap and straight forward way of creating complex geometries along a path.

Is there a way to do something similar in Blender? Or to interact with both apps??

Thanks!

AlphaChannel · October 4, 2021, 12:52pm

Hallo!

This took about ten minutes in geometry nodes Blender 3.0, this is not the only way to achieve it either, probably do it all with some arraying tapering and a mirror mod, but I like geo nodes.

So yeah, I’d say pretty trivial for Blender!

Happy Blending.

Rostropovich · October 4, 2021, 5:04pm

Thanks for the hints!

But… is there an add-on or a way to do it straight forward?

There are so many areas that I am learning and dealing with (learning 3D since one year), that building my own procedural geometry generator seems a bit daring at this moment …

AlphaChannel · October 4, 2021, 5:11pm

Just with modifiers then?

AlphaChannel · October 4, 2021, 5:22pm

cheaptrapcode.zip (679.2 KB)

have a Blender 3.0 file…

obsurveyor · October 4, 2021, 5:38pm

Do you have a blend for this to share or a higher res node tree image?

AlphaChannel · October 4, 2021, 5:41pm

DNADAncer.zip (702.9 KB)

Sure… Blender 3.0 daily build from this week,

Ive fiddled more with it.

AlphaChannel · October 4, 2021, 5:43pm

image1824×746 167 KB

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obsurveyor · October 4, 2021, 6:34pm

Thank you!

Rostropovich · October 5, 2021, 12:14am

Great … but after downloading the file (thanks a lot for the work), I just was not able to make any changes or to understand how to tweak it or do something similar… and I took my time!

After one hour with Tao AE plugging, I just created such a mesmerizing and beautiful geometries that I almost faint.

…I am starting to learn Houdini, so on the other hand Blender seems so easy and straight forward compared to it.