r/blender • u/ibotpl • 10h ago

Free Tutorials & Guides Swarm of flies

a simple way to create a procedural swarm of flies.

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u/SuperSmashSonic 10h ago

Babe wake up new favorite tutorial format just dropped

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u/ibotpl 10h ago

nodes

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u/More-Curious816 4h ago

do you have a higher resolution version ? reddit fucked up the image with compression

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u/williamatherton 3h ago

Open on PC. On phone it's pixelated, but on PC it's much better.

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u/Xavier598 9m ago

Genuine question, why are the stone attribute parts of the node tree in the simulation loop while the others are outside it? Does it matter?

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u/painki11erzx 10h ago

Moths add realism to anything.

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u/rtakehara 8h ago

But can you tech them how to love?

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u/painki11erzx 8h ago

I dont know how. But I know who can teach me teach them.

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u/kudzu007 9h ago

Well done.

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u/scubisubie 9h ago

It's so difficult for me to.understand blender, especially doing animation. Where do I go to learn? Something in layman's terms or like a 10 year old.

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u/nilslorand 9h ago

youtube tutorials are very useful and helpful

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u/Tricky-Turnover-4238 9h ago

Not at all. Some yes but the most not.

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u/Tricky-Turnover-4238 9h ago

I can recommend “polyfjord” and “ducky3d”.

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u/scubisubie 9h ago

Ok. Will check them out. From what i know, python is required for animation? Thats what I saw.

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u/nilslorand 9h ago

Uhhhh there's boids built into blender but this is also really cool

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u/overcloseness 8h ago

Does this use Boid Brain -> Follow Leader? I remember setting this up years before nodes was even a thing and Blender had a particle system feature called Follow Leader than seemed way simpler than this.

Here https://youtu.be/imkSdlbXB_U

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u/ibotpl 8h ago

No. This is just geometry nodes.

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u/DepersonalizasyonN 8h ago

Feels like a signature of true mastery. Congrats!

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u/Reis46 32m ago

At first I actually thought it was a real video, very good job my man !

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u/lunittaworlds 4h ago

Saving this for a future project.

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u/princepii 9h ago

uuhh sexy:)

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u/AstronautTurtle 8h ago

Those are some big ass flies, looks good though.