Thinsoldier's Sketchbook 2024 - 2026

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https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/160684

~\thinsoldier\Downloads\3D Downloads\OBJ files\models-resource.com\3ds\StreetPass Mii Plaza\_slot car rivals 
= stylized race track stuff

~\thinsoldier\Downloads\3D Downloads\OBJ files\models-resource.com\3ds\StreetPass Mii Plaza_fishing 
= fish, dragon, water dragon, sea plane

~\thinsoldier\Downloads\3D Downloads\OBJ files\models-resource.com\3ds\StreetPass Mii Plaza_flower town\Shopping Mall 
= stylized plants and vines with flowers and ground textures
already in a blend file - this is also the folder where I got the courtyard and restaurant and garden shed initally

Align object by 1 face normal to world axis

I have an object that is a single face that is frozen in a randomly rotated position that does not align with any world axis. [image] I have managed to find the face normal vector and position a mesh line primitive to visualize the face normal. I need to now calculate the difference between the face normal and world Z so I can rotate the face so its normal points up in world z and then I want to instance the object on points created by Distribute Points On Faces on another object. [image] …

I had been looking for nintedo-esque low poly stylized plants in various old games to add to the MooMoo Meadows race track I’m building in BeamNG.

I decided I wanted to use the flowers from this mall scene

I figured I could just distribute some points around the fields and then instance these flowers on them.

Problem is these faces with the flower texture are pointing in different directions and I need them all facing up to work well with instancing.

I didn’t want to have to rotate every flower manually to make that happen so I tried to get Geometry nodes to do it.

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Almost time to start the annual review. Revisit every sketchbook entry since the beginning and look for questions that still don’t have answers and see if I can get an answer.