Simulation Nodes in 5 minutes!

Using simulation nodes to give the basic idea of how it works and creating a simple bugs simulation in blender geometry nodes!
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[PIXXOD]

Most of us try to avoid bugs in Blender, and here you are making them. Nahh, good job man, love this tutorial.

[fadepanther]

Okay, let me start by saying this was very easy to follow but it isn't like you just showed us the final product and said "Screen shot this and copy it". Secondly showing your thought processes while working on it, and following along, helped me learn a bit more about these nodes and how they work. Finally, most importantly to me, the final thing you showed off was JUST what was in the thumbnail. I wasn't click-baited into this tutorial and knew what I should be getting along the way.

On top of ALL that, thanks to the geo sim nodes every time I jumped a bit ahead and saw something weird (like the clumping points) I could watch you run into the same thing and see how you fixed it, ran with it, or doubled back on a choice to resolve it.

Fast, sure, but it got the base info I needed. It's not for super beginners but if you know a little bit of how geo nodes work this was great to follow and build anyone's skillset with. ^^

[SurfacedStudio]

I feel like I might have missed something. This entire setup works without the Simulation Zone - it's based on the Scene Time input shifting the underlying noise texture which controls the positioning of the distributed points. What functionality of the Simulation Nodes is used to create this effect? I thought the output of the simulation would have to be fed back into the simulation to step it along frame by frame?

[summertribble]

This was great. Thank you.

How would I make it so that the "bugs" are aligned to the surface normals?

[wholebitmedia]

Can you do a tutorial or explain aligning the bugs to their paths with Euler to Vector?

[ian]

Can you provide a rough idea of how you would align them to the individual vector directions if the bug instances were cubes. So that a more complex bug would constantly rotate to face forwards? Thanks.

[hernanlucas]

Do you teach product animation, obviously charging for it?

[solanki]

still didn't understand the functionality of these nodes, do this do that but why nobody explains 😣

[BittuKumar-dxnc]

Sir I have a file please render this video for me I have to attend an interview...

[AA-hgxq]

Watch your language. Your efforts otherwise are very good.