Introducing: ‘Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners – Procedural Bridge Generator’!

Do you want to create stunning, customizable 3D bridges that fit seamlessly into any scene? Or perhaps you’re eager to unlock Blender's powerful Geometry Nodes to streamline your creative workflow?

Look no further!

Welcome to ‘Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners – Procedural Bridge Generator’! I’m Vlad from 3D Tudor, and in this Skillshare class, I’m excited to guide you through creating custom bridge designs that will elevate your 3D environments.

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At 3D Tudor, we’re all about making complex tools accessible for any artist, giving you practical skills to build professional-quality models. Let’s jump in together and start building bridges with ‘Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners – Procedural Bridge Generator’!

Why This Class?

This class is perfect for 3D artists, game developers, and Blender enthusiasts looking to add professionally designed, customizable bridges to their projects. Starting from the basics, we’ll explore Blender’s Geometry Nodes step-by-step, empowering you to create unique, dynamic bridges that fit any design style.

What You’ll Learn in ‘Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners – Procedural Bridge Generator’:

Master Procedural Design in Blender: Control every aspect of your bridge design using Blender’s versatile Geometry Nodes.

Flexible, Curve-Based Bridge Design: Work with curve tools to customize width, height, and railings, making each bridge unique to your project.

Comprehensive Node Setup: Access a structured node setup for creating and modifying bridge structures easily and efficiently.

UV Unwrapping and Basic Material Application: Learn essential UV unwrapping techniques and add basic materials for a polished finish.

Beginner-Friendly Yet Comprehensive: Whether you're just starting out or have some experience, this Skillshare class makes Geometry Nodes easy to understand and apply.

Hands-On Skills for Real-World Projects: By the end, you’ll have practical skills you can apply directly to your 3D projects.

Class Structure and Lessons

Our journey through ‘Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners – Procedural Bridge Generator’ is structured into nine detailed lessons, each focusing on a key part of bridge design.

The objective of this Skillshare class project is to design and model a bridge with customized features, such as adjustable width, height, railings, and stone paths.

Completing this project will reinforce your understanding of Blender’s Geometry Nodes and give you hands-on experience with procedural design.

Lesson 1 – Introduction

Start with an overview of how the setup will work. We’ll explore the class project features, providing a roadmap of the bridge’s design elements, such as customizable shapes, holes, railings, and stone paths.

Lesson 2 – Profile Shape

Create the base profile of your bridge! In this lesson, you’ll design the main body and railing supports with inputs for width, height, and rail parameters. We’ll combine three quadrilateral curves to form the bridge’s structure, setting up all necessary controls for a fully customizable setup.

Lesson 3 – Bridge Shape

Learn to sweep the profile shape along a curve to form the bridge! We’ll add height displacement and steepness controls to give your bridge a unique shape and depth, using the Z-axis offset and mathematical functions for realistic results.

Lesson 4 – Customizable Holes

Add depth and detail by creating customizable holes! You’ll add cylinder shapes as holes in the bridge body and set up input parameters for hole count, spacing, centre/side scaling, and Z offset, allowing you to tailor the bridge to any scene.

Lesson 5 – UV Unwrapping and Material Application

Dive into UV unwrapping techniques specific to curved shapes. You’ll learn to unwrap the bridge model and apply basic materials, giving it a polished look that enhances the overall design.

Lesson 6 – Introduction to Stone Path Creation

Bring more character to your bridge with a stone path! We’ll introduce the stone path generator, a feature that adds realism to your bridge, setting up stones in a straight line along the bridge as a foundation before aligning stones to custom curves.

Lesson 7 – Generating Stones

In this lesson, you’ll generate stones along a straight line that matches the bridge’s input curve or mesh length. We’ll focus on separating stones for each input curve to ensure accurate alignment and seamless integration.

Lesson 8 – Aligning Stones to Curves

Learn how to align the generated stones to the bridge curves, giving your bridge a natural, cohesive look. This step helps ensure the stones blend with the bridge structure, adding realism and character to your project.

Lesson 9 – Adding Stones to the Bridge

In the final lesson, we’ll integrate stone paths with the bridge geometry. You’ll generate and separate curves from the bridge’s geometry to create a stone pathway that perfectly aligns with the bridge’s curves, with additional inputs for full control over stone placement, scale, and alignment.

Wrapping It Up

The ‘Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners – Procedural Bridge Generator’ Skillshare class has everything you need to create stunning, customizable bridges that fit seamlessly into any 3D environment.

From basic Geometry Node concepts to advanced customization techniques, this class will transform your Blender skills and approach to procedural design.

Are you ready to bring your ideas to life?

Start ‘Blender Geometry Nodes for Beginners – Procedural Bridge Generator’ today, and discover the full potential of Geometry Nodes in Blender.

Until next time, keep tweaking those geo nodes!

Vlad

Davron Dilmurodov

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