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I was aware of some of that functionality, but not all of it. Interesting. It does seem useful and powerful, and worth putting the time and energy into that they are. (I can't say the same about grease pencil, but that's neither here nor there)
I have been playing with a system to do simple crowd simulation using gnodes, with some amount of control over where the crowd looks, etc. I should knuckle down and take the time to learn it more thoroughly.
I'll look at those videos, so thank you! I do wish it was possible to find information about, well, *anything* in blender that wasn't in video format, but one takes what one can get. And since it's hard to find things that aren't either super basic introductory level, or VERY high level (Or based on one of the several intermediate stages of release that are incompatible with the current version 😆) it's good to have a recommendation.
I do hope they don't deprecate particle systems though (including hair).
Edit: Ah, apparently I can't watch that particular video, because spiders. (I have pretty severe arachnophobia) But I'll check out some of their other videos.
I was aware of some of that functionality, but not all of it. Interesting. It does seem useful and powerful, and worth putting the time and energy into that they are. (I can't say the same about grease pencil, but that's neither here nor there)
I have been playing with a system to do simple crowd simulation using gnodes, with some amount of control over where the crowd looks, etc. I should knuckle down and take the time to learn it more thoroughly.
I'll look at those videos, so thank you! I do wish it was possible to find information about, well, *anything* in blender that wasn't in video format, but one takes what one can get. And since it's hard to find things that aren't either super basic introductory level, or VERY high level (Or based on one of the several intermediate stages of release that are incompatible with the current version 😆) it's good to have a recommendation.
I do hope they don't deprecate particle systems though (including hair).
Edit: Ah, apparently I can't watch that particular video, because spiders. (I have pretty severe arachnophobia) But I'll check out some of their other videos.