Lego anything with this NEW Blender geometry nodes feature

Using the new instance attributes in geometry nodes, we can now turn models into Lego bricks! They can even keep their color. Using instances means we can make much larger Lego scenes. If you want to be able to export models, the instances must be realized, and some of the settings in the node tree need to be changed to use geometry instead of instances

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00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Distribute points in volume
02:12 - Lego
03:47 - Colors - Transfer UV
07:47 - Other models

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[JoeyCarlino]

Edit: In Blender 4.0 the mesh to volume node doesn't have the interior/exterior bandwidth options. I don't have an immediate replacement, but this still works without those options.
I said something wrong in this! Location from the Object Info node is the global location, so it will only work the same as the Object Texture Coordinate if your object's origin point is 0, 0, 0. You can do this by Applying All Transforms with Ctrl A.
Hopefully this makes sense

[feildpaint]

A cool thing you can do is map the texture's colors to match with Lego's official color palette.

[SodaDjinn]

I wouldn't even know what I want to Legofy with this but you explained it so well and the setup is so simple I have to try it. Thank you so much for sharing and explaining your work! I can already feel this tutorial is going places.

[pewter_wiz]

A great addition to this would be to get a list of the most common official lego block colours, and index the UVMap colours to the closest one!
That should cut down on a lot of the colour variance that you wouldn't normally have in a lego set

[CertifiedDoc]

Geometry nodes are my favorite addition to Blender. There's just so much incredible stuff you can do with them. They make all kinds of tasks easier, just so long as you can work out how to use the nodes.

[hannahyamauchi]

It's so satisfying to see someone so proficiently explain something I don't even understand. Thank you for sharing this with us!

[sander-wit]

I love how concise and high quality your tutorials are. Thank you good sir.

[SeyhanK]

I was just not able to grasp what geometry nodes are ever since they were first introduced but after this tutorial looks like I'm going to have to figure it out because this was just amazing!

[ianbryant]

This is amazing. Blender has come a long way.

[Bro_Certified]

One of the best Blender tutorials I've seen in awhile. On behalf of the Blender community, thank you! 🙌🏻

[MG-Makes]

Just discovered your channel and learning blender a few weeks ago, can't wait until I'm able to do stuff like this. Fantastic video and editing, going to binge your channel now and save lots of videos for later!

[JonathanGilmer]

The geometry node setup we didn't know we needed! This is so cool 😎

[theimpossiblegirl]

Clicked on this bc I just wanted to save this vid for later, ended up watching it entirely because it was so interesting and seems really easy to follow thanks you for showing us this!

[kostadinkarakashef]

So simple. Brilliant. This is state of the art tutorial. You are the best Joey. Thank you.

[JoyfulNerd]

This is a great video for people who have some difficulty messing with blender, you gave simple and to-the-point explanations and showed where everything is. Simple and easy to follow, and very fun to watch and learn from

[PrivacyEnt]

woww well done! it turned out so nice and accurate, while also being very editable

[kkulkv]

i love your tutorials so much! never fail to inspire me and you're so good at explaining

[themaddove]

Damn, I was just working on that and was about to release a tutorial, but you beat me to it. But good tutorial though.

[kyloh]

never in my life have I used a 3d rendering program but you explained it so well even I was able to follow your explanation; today I learned about nodes lol. the results look super cool! and being able to set two different resolutions for render and viewport is such a neat little trick!

[UnPuntoCircular]

This is such a well made tutorial. I haven't tried Geometry Nodes (I haven't used Blender for years, actually) and this was super easy to follow and understand. Blender is truly amazing.