For those using Blender 4.1, there's a couple of changes: 1. "Rotate Euler" node is now the "Rotate Rotation" node. Shift+A > Utilities > Rotation > "Rotate Rotation". 2. Random Value is found under Shift+A > Utilities > Random Value The final node setup for Blender 4.1 users: i.imgur.com/RzGyzGv.png And separately, if you've got sprinkle issues: 1. Make sure you add loop cuts! It won't bend if there's no geometry to support it. 2. Make sure to apply scale (Select all, Ctrl+A, Scale) or it will be the wrong size on the donut.

Blender 4.1 Shift+A-> "Utilities" -> "deprecated" -> "rotate euler"

I just spent about an hour trying to work out why my "Simple Deform" modifier bend looked completely different to the one in the video. (The 'bend' was much shallower, and the top and bottom vertices were very stretched out.) It turned out that I needed to 'Apply Scale' to the cylinder object -- I imagine it was a result of how it was created and then scaled to a new size? Either way, selecting the object in Object Mode, hitting "Ctrl-A" and then selecting "Scale" seemed to work. Once I'd done that, I applied 'Simple Deform' and it looked exactly like the one in the video. Just dropping this here for anyone who might run into the same issue! Hugely enjoying these tutorials.

If you - like me - had a problem with zooming in enough to the now small donut, go to Edit > Preferences > Navigation > Auto: Check „Depth“ to on

For anyone wondering, 17:08, there is no "Rotate Euler" for the newest 4.1 update. I had to manually search (Edit > Menu Search) "Rotate Rotation." It's the same thing, then you can continue on to Random Value. Also, an extra tip in case anyone else is having trouble. Some of my sprinkles were floating above my donut (very subtle but noticeable), and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why. People kept saying you have to "Set Origin > Origin to Geometry." I kept doing it over and over again, and nothing happened. The answer to this is YES, you do have to right click and "Set Origin > Origin to Geometry" but on all four of your little sprinkles you made earlier, and NOT by selecting the sprinkles on the donut itself. This immediately fixed the problem. Waisted a whole hour researching this!! I hope learning this gets better :(

I'm a 60 year old 3D veteran (3DS Max since mid-90s) and wish to learn Blender and so far, my days for the last week have been commencing with; Get up, get washed/dressed, make tea/coffee, followed immediately by switching on my computer to watch the next part of how to make a donut using Blender :)

17:57 In case anyone else has an issue finding the Rnadom Value Node, Shift+A -> Utilities -> Random Value is the third option from the bottom.

Hey, I noticed it was mentioned that if your simple deform modifier looks different to the one in the video, you need to select it and press Ctrl + A and then click scale. I had just finished and the tutorial and noticed that the sprinkles except the bent ones were sort off flattened. To fix this; do the same as before: select the other 3 sprinkles, Ctrl + A and then click scale. Hope I saved you some time

This is giving me an all new respect for 3d modelers. If it takes this many videos for a donut... imagine a city.

For anyone wondering why their bent long sprinkle might look something like a beaker after laying them flat, its because you need to click apply on the deform modifier in the little drop down before rotating them to lay flat :D took me ages to figure out what I was doing wrong :D

The near clip plane is not very small by default because the more you increase the distance between the near and far clipping planes, the more you decrease the precision of the depth buffer, introducing Z-fighting visual anomalies

If your bevel is not working properly (applying more bevel on one axis than other) that is because you have not applied your scale. Shift-A and Scale. It took me good 5 minutes freaking out trying to figure out what is wrong. Google helped.

I don't know if Blender Guru is aware of the effect he has on our learning day. I have seen several other tutorials, and I have learned a lot of other things, but I will never forget the first time I deleted the default cube and created my first animation. I am really moved and grateful to have been part of this amazing community and to have tried this unforgettable experience, which changed my entire perspective on what I want to accomplish and become and gave me the strength to finally achieve what I so much desired. From the bottom of my heart, thank you, Blender Guru, and thanks to the Blender community❤.

if for some reason, when you try to save your rotation on the sprinkles and some of them flatten on the donut, make sure you also save the scale on your sprinkles

Thank you Andrew for being awesome. I’m a Blender User of over a dozen years and I still enjoy your tutorials. Even tho this series is for beginners and I have moderate experience with Geo Nodes, watching a beginner tutorial from you in particular is refreshing and still makes me learn little things that I forgot or just didn’t pick up as Blender continues to introduce new Awesomenities. And it’s just fun to hang out.

Tip, to avoid messing with the clipping values, it is always recommended to switch to orthographic view when modeling and editing the mesh, and you'll avoid any clipping and zooming issues.

4:50 If you can't select edges or faces, go to your 'Scene Collection' in the top right. There is a white dot next to 'Cylinder'. Press that and it will turn into a square and you will be able to select edges/faces

Finished this episode and added a thumbnail of my Donut for all to see. I also found it this time was way easier to make sprinkles and edit them. The Simple Form modifier rocks too! Thanks for all your Help.

I just Recently started using Blender about 1 Month ago, this series really has helped me progress further. Thank You, Andrew.

For anyone that had a lovely bent sprinkle that turned into a Frankenstein wedge thing later on... Right after you added the deform modifier, you need to apply it.

3d cursor tool cylinder clipping view - clip start - n vertices selection mode (not faces) bevel - ctrl + b duplicate - shift + d toggle wireframe view loop cut - ctrl + r simple deform modifier angle origin point selecting objects - shift set origin - origin to geometry outliner collections move to collection - m pinning / unpinning geometry nodes collection info node separate children checkbox reset children checkbox pick instance checkbox utilities - rotation - rotate euler node rotate to local random value node float vector tau / double pi - pi is 3.142 x 2 = tau 6.283

If you are having issues with the Simple Modifier: Notice that when he finishes the loop cut (Ctrl+R), only the new vertices are selected in Edit Mode. If in your case all the vertices of the cylinder are selected, the Simple Deformer would not work as in the video. Try selecting only the new vertices, and then try the modifier again. It worked for me!

Halfway checkpoint ! congrats to all of yall who made it this far ! our efforts are paying off and i can't wait to see the final product !

Andrew, RE: CLIP START: The reason the clip plane is further out by default is because of how the maths works in the viewport transform. For maximum precision you want the near clip plane as far from the camera as possible (the distance of your far clip is also a factor, but less than the near). I used to have an excel spreadsheet I'd use to show the effect to our artists, but I haven't seen it in years. As a practical matter I don't think it matters quite as much with the float depth buffers we have now in most cases, but when depth buffers were just 32 bit ints Z artefacts were more common when the near clip was very small.

I keep having issues with the simple deform modifier. My sprinkle keeps bending on both ends of the cylinder, as opposed to the top only. Edit: so I got help on the Blender Guru Discord and I had to apply the scale to my sprinkle. I don't know if I missed that step in the video or what, but it solved my issue.

Ended up with round sprinkles on my donut instead of just long sprinkles, figured out it was something super simple, wrong collection. moaned very loudly when I fixed it.10/10

Ok, I've reached the point with the collections and I'm kind of proud that I've been doing that from the beginning. Professionally working with Creo has taught me the value of a clean model tree via groups in assemblies or in large plates with thousands of holes so I just unconciously started putting things in collections. I pathologically name all my KEs and groups so I can tell how I changed things just by looking at my model tree.

2:10 The near and far clipping planes are used as an optimization for numerical accuracy. If you set near plane really close to camera and far clipping plane to hundreds of kilometers, you'll find that the accuracy of the objects you edit start to suffer because the floating point values are scaled to that whole range between near and far planes and if you're working in a small scene, you should optimize the range to match the scale you work with for optimal performance.

I remember when I did your donut tutorial for the first time as a beginner, it took me so incredibly long because there was so much information and I struggled with a lot of steps. I would feel very overwhelmed. Now as being a more experienced Blender user (even though I am still learning) and doing your tutorial for the second time I am going through it a lot faster. Also, I am not feeling as overwhelmed, instead I really like to go through everything again and still learn new things. It's really nice to see how much I have progressed, compared to that first time I did the tutorial. Thank you so much for your amazing way of teaching Blender and your easy to follow tutorials. For people who are just starting out, blender has a steep learning curve. Keep in mind that it takes time to learn. But eventually you will start to grow and that is the best feeling ever

at the step changing the object info to a collection info to change the type of sprinkles, whenever i select the checkbox "Pick Instance" in the Instance of points node, it results in flattening a huge part of the long sprinkles on their long side. I still don't know what may cause the issue edit: solved! the problem was that i had applied the scale using ctrl+A only to the elongated curve sprinkle, and not the others. Solved by selecting all 4 sprinkles and applying both scale and rotation (just to make sure :) )

If you have a unit circle (circle with radius of 1), and you open up an angle where the sides go from the center of the circle to the circumference, the section of the circumference that the angle cuts out (the arc) of that unit circle is the angle in radians. The circumference of a circle is 2*pi*r (r = radius), and in a circle with a radius of 1, that equals 2*pi. Hence, the angle that spans the entire circle (i.e. 360°) in radians is equal to the circumference of that circle which is 2*pi. Thank you for another tutorial in this amazing legacy.

This is my fourth donut and still learning all kind of new things. Love the tutorials! greetings from the Netherlands

If you're not getting round corners when bevelling the sprinkles: select "Superellipse" Profile Type in the popup Bevel menu.

when I placed my long sprinkle collections on geometry nodes panel, the random placement and rotation works but its size/scale are like 1/10 of its original size, even I use the "ctrl+a" on scale.

I can´t believe it, this is the first time that I get so far! Zero frustration, thank you so much, looking forward for the next video!

For those, who have difficulties with curving edges at 5:20 and the edges are not rounded at all. Select the bottom and the top faces, hit ctrl + B and then, left click anywhere. After that, you'll have the bevel window in the left corner. You can apply all changes there. But what we need is ''Profile type’’. If it’s Custom, change it to Superellipse. Voilà, now you’ve got the rounded edges.

Andrew, I have been watching these donut tutorials since you made them first time, I love this content and recommend everyone to start over here in their 3D journey. Just one suggestion, if you can include multiple audios or subtitles for these videos, can you do that? I live in India and although love your content, can't recommend it to some people because of language barrier, it would be so much helpful to people who are not fluent in English. (I can write you subtitles in Hindi, if you would like that.)

This is the part of the series when things start to get a little more complicated. Excellent series mate!

havent given up yet,donuts lookin pretty good so far and im having fun building it to be honest! great tutorials so far!

Setting my clock to 7am gmt to make fresh donuts and follow your video 🙂

If you're encountering issues with the bevel, particularly if it's resulting in a more pencil-like shape, you can rectify this by adjusting the profile type to Superellipse. This option can be found at the bottom of the bevel menu that appears after creating the pencil.

Since it wasn't said in this video I'd just want to point out, you can also Random Value the scale, something like a 0.8 to 1.2 or whatever looks best. This adds some variation to the look of the sprinkles so they're not always uniform, to add that little bit more of a nice look

Another reason you might want clipping to be bigger than smaller is that when you zoom in to a particular object the large clipping will clip other objects that might stand between your view camera and the object you are goint to work on. Helpful when working in crowded area and helps you avoid isolating in and out unecessarily.

If, after applying the rotation, your last sprinkle looks like a weird fan or some other ">

at 17:05 if you can't find the "rotate euler", its because your using a newer version. You can still find it by just searching for it instead

The distance between the Clip Start and the Clip End is the range to store Z value per piexel. It's often a 32 bits float value. The more the range is high the more two triangle will be at the same location and you'll end up with z fighting. Having the smallest range is always a good practice. BTW, super great tutorial as usual! 🙂

A donut is a surprisingly useful tool when teaching Blender. These tutorials have been wonderful. Nearly perfect pacing (although I turn the speed up a bit, I get distracted super easily so I tend to rewatch the same parts at least 2 or 3 times over sometimes). It can be so hard not to get distracted by the 8 million other features I want to inject into my brain for future use, especially when it comes to messing around in UE5. I've done 2D graphics design/sprite work, audio production, coding, game dev, game test, prototyping, all kinds of things needed for the development pipeline, but have put off UE and Blender for so long because I knew it was going to be the turning point where I would become as annoyed by lazy 3D work as I get with audio work. As a professional artist I imagine it must be frustrating sometimes to see people being paid tons of money to do a less than mediocre job to say the least. Well this is at least the case when it comes to audio production for me, most specifically sound design. Even with just a couple weeks working in both, I'm already stuck focusing on every damn 3D model I come across now and trying to learn what is right/wrong about a design and what works for creative liberty and what just looks "lazy", "unfinished" or "unpolished". One thing I've become obsessed with now is checking to see how people construct their rail tracks. It's quite an easy thing to design, even for low poly while still getting the few major important details for a track to function in the real world, yet so far, most games I play are missing at least one crucial detail, usually being the tie-downs for both sides of the tracks. Now I'm gonna know way too much about mundane objects most people don't care about. And I'm already filled with an encyclopedia of useless Jeopardy facts. Now I just need to spend another 200+ hours getting comfortable with the software so I can start making the massive library of objects I've always wanted to create. Weeeee fun times!

all this video has succeeded in doing is making me want a donut

for the ones who are struggling to find the "rotate euler" node : it's in the "deprecated" option

Spent an hour trying to get my sprinkles to rotate around the Y-axis only to find out (after searching on line) that there was a setting in the bowels of the many Blender menus that prevented the rotation from occurring. Grrrr. But from some reason I still feel inspired to continue with these tutorials even though it's only for fun.

This has been a very helpful beginner guide. THANK YOU.

Just spent like 20 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn't get my bevel to bend like that. It turns out I had to apply the scale. Ctrl + A then click Scale. I think you quickly forget that people who are following this have like 2 hours of experience with the software. You're already skipping explanations of what you're doing and how you're doing it. For example, you do the bevel and then duplicate, but you never say you need to switch to object mode or that you need to select anything. If we just go by what you say, we just duplicated all those faces we beveled.

Here to claim my 7-day streak and resume to create the delicious virtual donut.

"Euler. Is it french? Maybe it's german.....just to annoy the europeans" Me as a german human being: *suprised pikachu face* (As a german you spoken it out right by the way :D ) So now I also have to leave a usefull comment. *clears throat* I really enjoy the tutorial so far. Especially the geometry node part. It is really something new (for me at least) and I cant wait to see what else is doable with this! I also love the way the videos are made: fun to watch, clever made and easy to understand. Looking forward to work on the next part. Thanks~🌻

Its my first time downloading blender then jumps to search on youtube for tutorials and found yours first, its actually so frustrating 😂 I almost quit on Part 6 but ill do it

When I've made it to the part when you told me to add the long sprinkles to the donuts, but when I did that, the sprinkles came out tiny, and your's are bigger. can you tell me what the problem is, please? Heres what I'm talking about 14:16

if your long sprinkles somehow still not in the right rotation, make sure you have rotated the referenced long sprinkles in the world 90 degree around the X Axis specifically, not the Y Axis

This is the furthest I've gotten on your donut tutorial. Thanks for updating it!

If your long sprinkles aren't placed well, try creating a new vertex group and doing a new weight paint on the long icing.

This is nice and all, and I appreciate the humor with which you present yet another iteration of this tutorial series, but what about powdered sugar or my favorite, cinnamon donuts?

Hello everyone, when I reach Chapter "21:09 Distance and sizing" and follow Andrew's instructions, the long sprinkles are too sunken into the icing, any advice?

Hello Andrew and everyone, first thank you for everything you do, this tutorial is great ! I had some problems with the long sprinkles, it was formed otherwhere in the plan (because i moved them somewhere i could observe them better), but this one you explained it very well after (by moving the origin point). And in the version 4.1 as the other comments said, you should research the Rotate Euler by typing or in Deprecated, i had another problem with my sprinkles , they were a bit elevated and i couldn't understand why (already random rotated and all), then i found out it was because of the Base orientation for rotation, which was on Object, i tried Local and there it was all good ! (in the Rotate Euler under the choice of Axis Angle/ Euler). Thank again and see you all at the end with our magnificent 3d donuts !

20:00 I'm not an expert on this, so please correct me if I'm wrong. It's the unit circle (a circle with a radius of exactly 1), the formula for a circle perimeter is 2*pi*r, but because the radius is 1, so it's just 2*pi. The unit circle is also used to calculate the sine and cosine wave.

7:25 I created the sprinkle variant by "scaling" it with S and it did weird things when applying the bend modifier, it was nit properly bending as in the video. Recreated the variants and elongated them with G as presented corrected that, hope it can help someone in the future c:

14:30 Whenever I select separate children and reset children the sprinkles grow extremely large and don't sit on the donut. How can I fix this?

It is worth adding that you can convert instances into geometry by inserting the Realize Instances node between Join Geometry and Group Output and pressing "apply" on the Geometry Nodes tab in Modifiers.

As someone who loved learning linear algebra, this was a lot of fun.

14:10 My second lot of sprinkles just didn't appear. Realised that despite dragging in the Collection, the little filing box in the middle of the Collection Info Geometry Node was empty. Clicked on the box and selected Long Collection and all is well.😃

For some reason my long sprinkles were very small when I placed the collection in the geometry node section. This feels like a band aid fix, but I added a "scale instance" modifier between the "collection info" and "instances on point"

Applied the Simple Deform modifier and clicked over to Bend. It worked perfectly. Fast forward to the Geo Nodes and now the bendy sprinkles are squashed flat on one end and flair out on the other end. The Scale was applied. Attempted to duplicate and got the same result. No idea why it went from looking perfect, to looking completely different. Edit: I had to delete the bendy one and completely remake it from scratch. Seems to be working so far.

Halfway done! Keep going everyone 😁

14:52 When i drag down the long sprinkle to the geometry note and connect to the instence, why my long sprinkles look smaller than the one which i make(big), and its look like little dots on the donut, can anyone tell why this happening??

rotate euler has been changed to rotate rotation

16:00 For anyone that had trouble rotating (or resizing) the sprinkle, try to press ( . ) and un-check the [Only Location]. don't forget to apply rotation and scale afterwards

On the simple Deform if it isnt bending for you you need to first apply scale and then it will work took me a while but that was my fix for this problem.

I followed the steps at 14:53 but my sprinkles are still appearing offset from the icing and plugging into the rotation nodes only scatters them more. Can someone please help me figure this out?

for those starting out too. I figured out you should enable - Edit - Preferences - Navigation - "Auto - Depth" so when you work on tiny objects your mouse isn't flying all over the place when you pan and zoom.

Thank you, Andrew, for the entire donut tutorial series. It’s impossible to express just how amazing you are at this! I've learned so many important things about the fundamentals of 3D with you. Also, I can’t pass without mentioning how amazing the people of that watches these series. They pointed out some critical issues about some steps by sharing the solutions. I saved a lot of time with their help! Cheers, everyone 🫶

I just messed up my sprinkles somehow. great excuse to try again from scratch and learn some more. Thanks so much for the videos, can't wait to reach the finish line

My long sprinkles looked like coconut flakes at first (lol), but once I applied "Scale" via CTRL-A, it started looking good again!

1 Radian is equal to 57.2958... degrees which means that in a half circle there are pie radian which means we can find angle in degree by multiplying angle by pie/180

14:37 SEPARATE AND RESET CHILDREN NOT WORKING FOR ME 😢 Whenever I click on the boxes the my long sprinkles blew up 😮 on me. I tried ctl A and applied scale to my long sprinkles and nothing changed.

I made some more sprinkles; figured out you could make one curved on only one end with the restrictions on the modifier, and I also made one that was broken in half

Radians is measuring how much did you turn around a circle using sin(x) function. To make it simpler, you can simply memorize this formula. (RadiansValue/Pi) = (DegreeValue/180). For details, if you put 2pi into Sin(x), you will get 0. Which is a full rotation that is the same as what 360 degree rotation does. So, you can say 2pi in radians is equal to 360 degrees. pi/2, or quarter a rotation, is 1 which, is equal to 90 degrees and hits to (0,1) point. You can imagine a coordinate system where you are drawing a circle around the center. 3pi/2, or equivalent of 270 degrees worth rotation is -1 which hits to (0,-1) point. To explain even simpler, when you draw an angle, you are basically opening up two sticks connected with a nail. Radians is using Sin(X) function to measure how much you open, degrees basically using number values. Degrees measurement, uses 360 number as a full rotation, which measures basically the same thing.

After changing the sprinkle's rotation, the bent sprinkle got screwed up, some people in the discord had the same issue. I hope this gets addressed .

I applied the rotation to the sprinkles. But when I turn them 90 degrees they all become deformed on the donut. Also, if I add a new mesh the icing turns into a huge ball of sprinkles. If I disconnect the sprinkle node that doesn't happen any more. Any suggestions?

This lesson was awesome. Makes me wonder if Andrew is gonna make real donuts and sprinkles in a video one day.

Blender guru your the goat

Hi Guru! Just wondering - is there any particular reason you created 3 separate sprinkle objects for the different lengths? I was challenging myself to try and accomplish things before you taught me how to, and my brain intuitively left the sprinkle as one object, went to add a 'Random Value' node in the geometry nodes editor, converted that into the Y value of a vector (left the X and Z as 1.000), and plugged that vector into the scale socket of the instance on points node. Is your way more efficient? Or is it just simply different ways of doing the same thing?

i am bad at blender

Amazing, thanks

I come from Maya and 3Ds Max and now that Blender also has industry compatible shortcuts, it would be nice to say what action you're doing, so that I can look it up on the shortcuts table or actually go to menus and stuff :D. I have no problem with using my mouse a lot haha. Keep it up!

Hey! I did the geometry node setup like what you showed in here for my donut and wondering if I need to apply the modifier before joining all the pieces (donut, icing, sprinkles, plate and other toppings I made) as one object to be exported and imported in a different Blender project. So far, I am having trouble retaining the randomness of colors for the sprinkles after importing it to my other project where it keeps changing ALL of the sprinkles as white or no color at all... Any advice or tips of what I should do differently so that the random colors in the donut project stay random upon export? Maybe it's the settings on the export window itself I am doing wrong? Perhaps I might need to try using the Append option instead? Haven't tried that just yet but I would like to have my donut I made along the playlist as a stand alone object for future Blender projects.

Imo it'd make sense for the sprinkles node setups to just use *one* setup but expose the collection used as a parameter alongside the density and min radius, since they do very similar things.

Great tutorial! Thanks. Always love getting the little math lessons, too. 😅😂

Slowing down as you're about to click and perform an action would be helpful in the future, if possible! I miss some of the major instructions when they're performed quickly in between long segments of explaining. This is a small note, the tutorials have been so helpful! Thank you!

yess ive been waiting

If anyone had this issue like I did, when you're putting the long sprinkles on the donut with modifiers, if you select reset children and it still projects them out into space, select every sprinkle (the group) and set origin to geometry

The clipping planes are necessary for numerical issues with Z-fighting. I find that in most of my scenes, I'd rather have a lower far-clip though. I like to set them both pretty aggressively. But if you rely on a scene that is supposed to have sprinkles-sized object in close-up and some kilometer-distant other object like a mountain or something at the same time, you might need a larger far-clip *and* a smaller near-clip and eventually floating point information is just insufficient for this.

Keep it going :)