Trying to create mirror ball effect on typography

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Hi there.

I’m try to create this look:

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I need variation in rotation and height (normal direction) of the seperate faces.

I’ve tried several approaches:

  1. Remesh > Edge Split > Displace to create separate faces

  2. A material from BlenderKit

  3. Geometry nodes (I struggle with this)

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

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Quick one with particles, you have to tweak the count to eliminate doubles.
But geometry nodes would be the best solution for this.

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You could bake these faces (that you’ve rotated randomly):

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Then use a Normal Map node:

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I liked this older tutorial by Chris P…

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Thank you so much for the response. I hadn’t even thought about using particles.

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Amazing, thank you. This is exactly what I need.

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Yeah this tutorial is excellent.

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DISCO BALL-ify? :rofl: That’s just amazing.

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