Thanks again, Kev. Here's an animation I made based on your tutorial and inspired by the music video Crow by Forest Swords. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/q4WXrmiHfZB2z6s.html

"separate children" 😂 one of the misterious names in blender, another one is "clear parent"

I love when people over hear these tutorials because it makes me sound like I really know what I'm doing when in reality there's a tutorial for almost every idea I've ever had. Great stuff! lol

The extrusion step of your total is precisely how I do hull details when I build my starship models. Wherever I can find a good, head on/orthographic image or screenshot of a practical model, I'll knife or loop cut along prominent detail lines, and extrude. The result is usually quite good. Great minds think alike.... and so do ours. 😁

Thanks for the quick tip on adding a bit of extrusion detail - that’s very effective

This is the perfect tutorial. 1. Exceptional presentation and communication style, you convey all necessary relevance in the moves you make, and everything makes sense as to why you do it. 2. You have a witty sense of humor that I really appreciate. No real jokes per-se but its in your willingness to let your natural thoughts slip in, its not forced and it feels natural

Loved this video! An additional thing for those who, like me, ran into this issue when trying this: I applied it by using it to make a server rack and wanted to add servers with a different height. In order to do that you can copy the node setup within the node group except for the collection info node and make a seperate collection for the bigger items. If you now connect the mesh line you can add a transform node between it and the first collections instance on points node to then offset it to your liking. You can still use the same random value setup for the instance index.

Thank you for sharing! Not only is your tutorial style simple, clear and easy to understand, but you're referring me to more tutorial makers I've never heard of, which really helps my learning curve! Thank you! You have a new subscriber/fan :)

Please never stop making these videos, as much as they are super informative and I learn a lot from em they are also just really fun to watch. I’ve already went through your entire catalogue lol. I’m making a mineshaft looking thing with a rail system animation using the stranger things tunnel video right now!

Thank you so much. I love your style! Subscribed instantly

Really nice bro. I like the simplicity of it. Kinda resembles some I'm working on 👍. Didn't know how to get a seed value so thanks for that🥰

Wow. This is beautiful. Remix stuff and something beautiful will happen! Thanks Kev.

Love this, simple, yet powerful! Thanks!

Amazing job. Thanks for uploading. Please keep it up the good job.

This is utterly amazing, much respect

Can't believe I've only found your channel now! Great content and I love your references. This Covina native is a fan!

Yes! YEEES! How long i was waited for video, when we can do buildings, with geometry nodes, from texture) Thank you)

ian hubert tricks + geo nodes why we didn't think of it before. thank you man

im loving all these blender youtubers... guys make great content thank you!

This is really good. I'm so new to Blender I wouldn't even say I'm a beginner. I was watching WHAT you can do with Blender, not how. Seeing how powerful and cool it is, is I think the best way to keep up the motivation during the learning curve. I say this because it was true for me with Photoshop. Thumbs up and I'm putting you on my subcribe list!

great idea, thank you for the inspiration

Thanks very well put together tutorial.

awesome technique tysm for sharing

I dont even do 3D modeling, animation or anything, just video editing But I really like to watch short explanation videos like this. Its really educatioal and you learn some interesting stuff

This is excellent!

You're such a king

Bro, this is great.

Good job man

this is gold!

this is awesome! i had a bit of trouble getting the random seed to work, but turns out i just had to delete the attribute statistic and index, and plug in the random value directly :) (v3.1.0)

Another Great One... TY

Looks interesting Kev

just... Thank you ♥

i knew i made the right choice when i subscribed to you.

I have practically zero experience with Blender (i gave up halfway through the donut) and this still made some sense to me. That's how you know it's a good tutorial.

Thank you

Amazing video, just one question, are the models used for air conditioning, shelves, clothesline part of the same mesh for each apartment or are they individual and separated geometry?

Wow this looks darn good... I don't know anything about blender but it's always fascinating to see how you can achieve things. Well done!

My goodness, this building was right across from my apartment. Now, it became so famous that even appeared in the Transformer movie. It looks like you were having so much fun with it.

Never used blender, no idea what all of this is, didnt understand 90% of the video, but i watched it completely. No idea why, it might save my life one day

Thanks Dave.

You're an absolute legend 🙌🏾😎🇿🇦

This is rad, wow the capabilites of Blender...!

that some gooooooood content

I like how you call it an ancient technique

The merging the cube joke made me snort and choke on my drink because I watched that tutorial and had the same thought. And then I realized there was an option to add a single vert. I still do it.

so nice!!!

King!

HI! Thank you for your tutorial. What is the program you used for cleaning up texture in 5:21?

Thank y❤️u

Thanks

I have no idea what blender is but i keep getting it recommended to me.

Great Tutorial, Kevin. On what sight did you find the apartment image? (I'm having trouble finding one with a non-perspective view)

2:40 You can also add a single vert ;)

It's a great idea to create a whole system to learn from within my passion, like spirulina takes over me...

I've seen some crazy city builder stuff in Houdini, like for the Matrix demo they just released... procedural roads, sidewalks, buildings. You think Blender could handle that?

For some reason, when i am trying the Random Value trick, my buildings do not align like yours do. I am setting my buildings up horizontally, but they either overlap or leave gaps. Offset does not do much, and even when i change the seeds i still get the same issue. Was there something i missed?

Hey just wondering do have a link to the image you used for the apartments? It would be very helpful for making this, Thanks

Seems like 3.1 breaks the nodes section when trying to add the seed value part, I went back to a another file that had worked prior to 3.1 and the same happened where all instances became the same and couldn't change with the seed number.

haha that cov joke really made me LMAO, u made my day thank you!

I approve !

Magic baby :)

Hey man, I'm struggling with the attribute statistics and random value somehow the seeds doesn't change my buildings and it just stuck with a long line of apartment 1. Could u help? sorry i'm still kinda new (NVM i got it). If anyone got the same problem as me just delete the index and attribute statistic and change the min and max value to your the number of your facades. Like if you have 7 apartments set min 0 (? maybe) and max to 7

Excellent, but how do you get the textures to show up since it is an instance after you realize instances plz?

Can you do the extruding technique in c4d?

You should be a stand-up comedian. (And an artist.)

Hello. If I want to use this buildings in Unty, what should I do to creat UV Maps? Can you show it to us, please? :)

NIce!

how do i extrusion the balcony and make it fuctional

I'm having trouble with the randomisation step. I followed everything mentioned in the tutorial perfectly but I can't seem to get it to randomize. I'm using blender 3.4 btw.

No idea what the hell this guy is talking about but it sure does look cool

One of the few Blender tutorials I coudn't follow.

i love building

swag

joke about ancient technique made my day))

Chillas’s art vibes

Hey I live in Covina. Epic

Imagine watching this video being from Covina. That's my reality! Scared me to hear it mentioned.

“You learn something new everyday.”

I once took a 3D class. I ended up hiring the teacher for my projects, that was it.

I'm just here to like the video and make an engagement comment. ;)

chur kev

Sneaky sun - always trying to get in on the collection. That's why separate children exists! As a warning. (OK - this doesn't work if paying attention to spelling (son) - separate celestial bodies...) Thanks!

Да это ж гигахрущ! Теперь это гигахрущ тред.

3:11 hahahaha!!!

Can we get a download link???

Why does this building seem so familiar to me? I know I've seen it from a certain movie before

What's the software at 5:18?

3:15 🤣

i wish we had lumen and nanite

Hello man, hope you will answer to my question below -> So, I am using K-CyclesX 3.1 Beta (but you can use Blender 3.1 Beta, if you want!) . So, you're wrong i think in this tutorial JUST because you're using Blender 3.0. How about 3.1? And btw, music is great, video is great, except that you're using 3.0, not 3.1, which is sad. Please, make a video JUST about what Geometry Nodes in 3.1 is. Not a tutorial. I just new in Geometry Nodes, and I wanna know what it can do! Please, do it! _Yours, Expert Plus!_

That picture looks very Hong Kong Kowloon

he sounds like a watered down version of Ian Hubert

"Separate Children" What a horrible naming And here I am, fondly remembering using jumperswitches to designate drives as Masters and Slaves. Then there's ye olde Kill Child Process commands Old computer terminology gets weird at times.

As much as i love it when you talk dirty; that went a bit fast. :p

Bruuuh I live in Covina 🤣🤣🤣

Not quite speaking fast enough to truly sound like Ian ;)

The death of Houdini!

Whole this time I didn't notice this - separate children is truly horrible name.

damn he talks exactly like ian hubert