What everyone else has been saying: don't stop making videos like these. I'm here for any and all tangents.

This guy is an awesome teacher. I tried watching other Geometry Nodes tutorials here on KZfaq but the concept was just not clicking, until I discovered this one. Thanks man.

As a former programmer and current 3D artist I appreciate how you tie nodes to if statements, boolean statements, etc. Working with nodes seems, as you say, a visual extension of scripting.

holy shit; ive traversed youtube far and wide watching many geo node tutorials and today i found the holy grail of tutorials.

THIS is THE WAY to EXPLAIN! Thank you! 99% of tutorials on YT just tell you what to click without explaining how that works - that is not teaching. Please make more of these, with the logic behind each node/tool! :)

Yes! The "why" is super important!

As a fellow rabbit, I stumbled across this because I'm an artist interested in Blender. I haven't even downloaded the program yet, lol, but your title drew me in. I'm a total noob with animation, 3D & digital art programs, but recently started to learn Python (super noob there). So glad to learn Blender is Python-based. I've noticed nodes like this in other open-source and AI image apps and programs, but they seemed so intimidating. Watched and listened to the entire lesson on my small phone with captions turned on! Read all the Comments and Subscribed as I plan to learn more from you and those Commenting, and plan to reference this often. I agree with those who enjoyed your pleasant voice and clear explanations of the whys and thought processes involved. I'm encouraged and you helped demystify these nodes a bit. Next step is to rewatch while following & doing in Blender. I definitely couldn't see any of the details on my small screen, but it was good enough to help me follow along, even without glancing at the screen and just listening to your well-explained descriptions of what you were doing and why. Zoom-ins as others already pointed out would be awesome for future vids. Excellent style of teaching! Keep it up and look forward to learning from you! ❤

As a programmer I really appreciate your perspective. Geometry nodes were hard for me before but now they seem more familiar than I imagined before.

There’s wannabes and half ass tutorial list on KZfaq and then there’s you, a professional in my humble opinion. I can’t thank you enough for teaching me this in such a fluid way you literally explain in such a way that it just clicks please don’t change you’re style keep this sort of quality over quantity.👍🏽

I just love how this started with stitches and then you went more nuts than squirrel shit. Seriously i learned so much. Thanks!

This is the way things should be taught for real. Instead of just giving out recipes like most tutorials do, you're telling us why. So we can become actual chefs that create our own menus, instead of old grams in the kitchen (nothing against grams ;P) with a rolodex of recipes.

By far the best geometry node explainer video, with the philosophy, the under the hood explanation, the rabbit hole, all just worked out good and finally learned some geometry nodes. Expecting more similar videos please. Thank you.

This is super helpful! The rabbit holes are fascinating and I love the developer's perspective. Thank you for making this!

I love the way you explain things. It just clicks for me. Do you plan an doing more geometry nodes tutorials? Cause I would love to watch more of these :) I also like how you're exploring different rabbit holes!

You made me fall in love with geometry nodes with this video. This means a lot to me moving forward in terms of what I want to focus on in 3D art. I really appreciate you making this tutorial.

I love that I know just *barely* enough about Blender to work a little ahead of the early stages of this tutorial. It's great.

dude you are brilliant. the complexity is so satisfying and it feels really good to be so lost in something one wants to learn. i love it. thanks so very much.

this is exactly what I was looking for. Going deeper into layers and really knowing what are we doing and not only connecting becz someone connected in in a tut. keep it up. looking forward to more geometry nodes exploration videos.

I have been trying to get my head around geometry nodes and this tutorial really clarifies how to think about them. I hope you produce more tutorials along the same lines.

I love it that you take the time to explain how and WHY something is done. You know the saying “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” applies here well. Also, visual scripting is very good way for someone who starts coding or is just not so good at it, to understand the logic behind it.

Thoroughly enjoyed, could easily become a rabbit hole addict - they make the learning process so much more interesting! I normally fall asleep during lengthy tutorials, but instead I'm craving continuity. Long live the rabbit hole! - Thanks.

ok... in the first 20 seconds you grabbed my attention and precisely hit the topic I've been searching for an answer to for the last 2 years.

You know, I love long videos and rabbit holes, and blender, and you somehow mix all that into one channel... I like that

this is the way to explain mindset the philosophy about it not just click , thank you

amazingly the countdown timer was one of the most useful rabbit holes I've seen in a long time, very useful (in particular how you troubleshooted the situation)

Im learning blender like hardcore and it would have been great to see this like one month ago, THANKS for that kind of content, for me and all blender learners

This made Geometry Nodes make so much sense for me! Thank You! I didn't realize how powerful Geometry nodes really were.

Thank you so much for this. Your explanation of the geometry nodes was so good. I had followed other geonode tutes before and not really understood what was going on. This helped me so much. Instant subscribe.

Absolutely helpful! Thanks a lot... I also like your style of switching between loose and strict thinking.

This is by far the most programmer-friendly tutorial on geometry nodes I have stumbled upon. Thank you for all the rabbit holes!

Absolutely loved your approach to geometry nodes. I have struggled learning programming in the past but seeing the visual of nodes makes it feel more tangible. Very helpful! 😄

Thanks for this! Appreciate the foundational procedural thinking and emphasis on WHY.

EXCELLENT - and yes, the Why is often left out of lessons. Very helpful.

This is the best video I've seen so far on geometry nodes. So many don't explain the why enough. Thanks

It feels so good to find a geometry nodes video presented in a way that matches my learning style. Thank you! Subbed.

Subbed fast! I really appreciate this kind of tutorial. I like the tangents and focus on why all while working towards a goal at the same time.

if not anything else, then you are just so relaxing to listen... i can definitely say you can make for some wonderful podcasts! but one thing i have to say, your tutorial was very beginner friendly; i mean the way you explicitly (you can guess by now i come from a programming background too) explain all the detailed intricacies is something that we beginners truly appreciate! and all the joys about the software that you talk, they totally involve the audience, or well, at least me in this case. i mean it feels like you are sitting next to your audience and talking to them with utter hospitality! this is the first 1hour+ video that i ended up watching completely ever(although i have to admit i watched it in 1.5x playback speed). no other video ever succeeded in keeping me with the video for so long you are doing a great work out there man! keep it up! appreciate it, really! hope you have a great day

love the channel name! thanks for the video and method of presentation!

This is an excellent tutorial. Approaching it from "this is how you should be thinking of it" instead of just "watch me and then you do the same" is great. It would be amazing if one could create a geometry nodes layout by editing the mesh. So you could go up into the viewport, type "rx45", and it would add a transform node with the right place in the geometry nodes.

This is definitely the most beginner-friendly Geometry Nodes tutorial I've ever watched. Thumbs up!

Man this is just absolutely awesome. This is super cool and beautifully explained. Also, your voice is very relaxing.

Really delivers on your promise of gaining a GeoNodes mindset. Pleasantly easy to follow along and gain insight as you explore different concepts and tackle some common issues. Awesome Video, thanks mate!

Thanks for this. Quite a big project for a fresh channel! Much respect, look forward to seeing the channel grow 💪🏼

Thanks for the why, it does help in figuring things out and repeating it. Keep up the good work.

Great tutorial! I followed you instructions and created two node. As a person who has experience with programming languages this has some getting used to. Thanks for sharing!

Wow. Really great stuff. Thanks!

absolutely LOVE this one - thank you for your time ♥

Very helpful tutorial. Learned a great deal as a Geo Node beginner! Thanks!

Thank you for this amazing free course.

I 've learnt a lot, and I think this kind of video is perfect to learn, as we can see the reflexion behind the process

Best video on blender I've ever seen. Thanks!

Such a perfect name for your Channel! I really enjoyed this, and the whole premise of curiosity driven digression. The code explanation is extremely helpful. Thank you!

"Think of Geometry Nodes as pre-recorded actions" - among the best high-level bits of advice I've ever heard on Geometry nodes! As someone who very rarely watches 1 hour + videos (Ian Hubert's Lazy Tutorials are more my idea of a good time!), this has been one of the highest value/minute videos ever!! "Why?" , you ask... (since it obviously doesn't take one hour to say "Think of Geometry Nodes as pre-recorded actions"): 1) because I actually learned a heap about other aspects of Blender (e.g. fake users and how underlying mesh data is being referenced); 2) because the "rabbit holes" are actually awesome examples since they are very different use cases (but still showing "I just want to pre-record this action"); 3) because the "You're an addon-developer" part is very clear on how to expose useful variables to an end user (I feel like a power user now!) and; 4) (perhaps most importantly) the video is real about having to "go look stuff up", which is fantastically honest, humble and inspiring. Thanks for taking the time to make this!

Thank you so much!!!! I tried too many tutorials but this is the only o

Excellent tutorial with deep-level bonus content. I subscribed specifically for more rabbit holes!

Great work on this video. I've never found a tutorial that got me in the right place to understand geometry nodes. Your method of explaining the process as your were figuring it out (specifically the countdown timer segment / rabbit hole) was extremely helpful. I could follow along without feeling completely out of my comfort zone. Thank you, and please keep doing this style of tutorial for Blender users. I think your Dev background gives the walk-through a much needed depth and simplicity that other tutorial content producers fail to provide. This is Grant Abbot level of teaching but for geometry nodes.

Before this video, I always thought Blender is by Aliens for Aliens only.

So nice tutorial . Thank u so much for this. It really really helped me to understand. Your tutorial is to neat and easy to follow.

Excellent presentation! Thank you for your time in making this!

Extremely helpful. Thank you!

Great video. I really enjoy that you actually want to dive deeper into nodes, it's super helpful. Keep it up. Also, you can actually enter "#frame" into the value node to use the current frame.

Thank you for this explanation!

this is so super. the first GN tutorial that clicked for me. please continue going down rabbitholes

First time I opened up my geometry nodes workspace and thank you 😭 this makes so much more sense now

Great tutorial!!! Subscribed

You did such a great job explaining the nodes and I really enjoyed the various tips and tricks and the various rabbit holes ;) I've started playing with the geo nodes last year, but it always felt confusing and trying to plug stuff together, hoping it's going to work. I surely will check your video again as a reference while working with the nodes. I'll check your other videos for sure, thank you!

Thank you. Well explained.

Thank you. This was awesome. It helped alot.

That was an amazing video fo yours. Thanks a lot for your digging ;)

Thank you for your video, it was super useful!

I’ve been searching high and low for an explanation like this. The why!!! THANK YOU!! All these other guys just say click this, click that. Now search for this. And then blah blah blah lol.

Pls make more Blender Videos. This one was so clear. Thank you so much

I love the fact that this was just the video that I needed to make things in the right way!

I love this approach. How to think about and conceptually understand the aggregate tools so you can problem solve anything. Thank you for teaching me how to fish instead of just giving me another species of fish that's not quite what I was looking for.

Handsome fella talking about geometry nodes, all here for it!

This Channel is amazing!!!!! Cant wait to see more from you! you are an amazing Human being!!!

Great tutorial video... now using Geometry nodes.... much easier, as you explained, to look at them from a programming point of few... very helpful... cant wait to see more.... ;-)

Thank you for the WHYs and HOWs, really helpful video, learning this geonode stuff as a non-programmer is pretty daunting. I encourage you to make more Rabbit Hole videos :)

This Video is made for me! Thank you so much.

I'm a blender user for many years It was difficult for me to learn geometry nodes as I didn't get the logic behind it but you helped me a lot into understanding thank you great tutorial

You are a truely gifted educator! That was a hilariously funny rabbit hole :) Thanks for making these videos.

tutorials should be more like this! explaining the why instead of what to do

Some great stuff in here man, ty

Great tutorial, made a lot of sense. You mentioned about Materials and getting it so that you could change them from the Goenode tool bar. 1:21:20 Materials. I connected the Pink Material input dot on the Set Material to the Geometry Input. This gave me an option to select any materials I had already set up in this blend. It didn't allow me to manipulate the material just select any I have set up in the Shading window

Nice one man *^^*

Geometry nodes are an incredibly powerful set of tools that allow detailed manipulation, and creation of almost everything in Blender. Geometry nodes are an incredibly frustrating thing that is a huge reason why Blender isn't leading the graphics world in everything. Blender is like buying a flight sim just for having some fun and finding out all the controls are 100% realistic and you need to be a qualified pilot to fly it. There is only one setting for the interface, expert. If MS Paint had the same interface you would need to set up nodes for colour, opacity, line thickness, line type, all before drawing a line. I have been using computers forever, everything from vanilla unix, vax workstations, right through to today. The nodes are really almost like background stuff the user shouldn't have to deal with unless they are truly at expert+ level. You see this with some of the add ons. You place them and they generate the 80 nodes that make themselves work. Background.

id love a materials library tutorial, i cant seem to find anything that explains it well, thanks for this!!

This was the best tangent ever.

Thanks a lot for this!!! I think the world needs more philosophical 3D videos like this!

This really did shift my perspective and thinking it about just scripting my actions. Nodes were always intimidating and felt challenging due to my lack of mathematical knowledge but this really helped. It was also fun to experiment applying this to some curves I made with the grease pencil. I was curious about adding extra points within the bezier segment to perhaps adjust it more. Well done and thank you!

))haven't seen the video yet but subscribed to see later because of the correct "Why" question!

Thanks for making these. So many videos show how to do a thing, but don't explain why. I've always just kind of messed with nodes to see what I can do with them. Having a background in software development definitely helps

Thank you so much for that valuable information ❤

One simple solution for SEARCH when you are trying to add new node would be to guess what you want: basically it would have beside correct name, few other possibilities that someone would try to search. Every node would have few of those and they would be under "suggestions" bellow and separate from "exact matches" above

I needed something like this, thanks

"Set Material Index" can be used to select a assigned material. then just give the user an integer input to change between the different assigned materials.

The way you break it down is perfect!

Amazing video - im not done yet and I already know this is an incredible tutorial

Hey man! This is an amazing tutorial, thank you for making it :)

Usually when i listen to a tutorial ive got at tops 5 minutes to find the specific solution i want before i zone out, I watched the 1st 50 minutes before going "hey how long has it been? holy f." i finished this and it was well worth it. very engaging and i loved your enthusiaism for the subject and listening to you learning with us like the infinite recursion helps make the subject feel more approachable. Great video I look forward to more of your content.