How To Make Point Cloud Animations (Blender)

Thanks for watching!
In this video I teach you how I animate point clouds in blender with geometry nodes. I also show you some extra ways to spice up your animation such as adding a simple deform modifier and how to only animate a specific area.
If you have any questions please let me know in the comments and I will try to help.

Skip the tutorial and start creating,
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Blender:

Import-ply-as-verts importer:

The app used to scan:
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The new importer for Blender has been introduced in Blender 3.6 Alpha, meaning that importing point clouds with vertex colours is now possible without having to download the import-ply-as-verts importer:
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I learned this technique from these creators:
@MidgeSinnaeve
@mv_nyc

Also:
@KeirCB
@RamiJayd
@Nicko16

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▬▬▬▬▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Get Scannin'
01:06 - Import Scan
03:03 - Visualising
04:23 - Getting the Colour
05:21 - Animating the cloud
07:50 - Set the scene
08:43 - Make it twist
11:39 - Speed/More Textures
13:00 - Rendering
14:12 - Bonus: Proximity
17:52 - Outro
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[OKEdits]

Also updated the Gumroad Node Tree for anyone who has purchased it. Thank you for your patience and support!

[RobertWildling]

This is not only great content, it is also an extremely well-done video tutorial! Cudos et Chapeau!

[angelsalazar]

Great tutorial dude, appreciate the bonus <3 thx!

[matuoklis]

wow I always wanted an effect of this type with this tutorial I was finally able to do it great job!

[cesandman]

great tutorial, and I greatly appreciate the chapter markers throughout

[swag_designs]

Holy cow, you're Oskar, I know you from tiktok but I can't believe you have such a recognizable style that I figured it out

[cameronclack]

loved this tutorial helped me out a lot, thank you

[sheelios]

straight to the point love it. you make it seem so easy

[Jeka]

Great tutorial!
How do you add color to the points as in @14:21?

[hoptcpt]

Really nice video !! I would love to see some More in depth distortion and noise pattern. Can you create venom moving pixels that deform and form backs again and combining the with glow intensity ? :)

[NoEnd]

Blender is great! Do more videos of blender

[serymiley]

can you help me: there is no io_mesh_ply folder (4.0 version of blender on mac)

[Renashii]

Thanks for this! I will now use this to animate my willy.

[ThiagoClaw]

Hello! Your tutorial is amazing!

Sorry to bother you, but I need to ask a question for a project I'm working on.

I'm developing something similar to what you showed in the tutorial, but instead of round points, I'd like to use squares. Could you tell me how to do that?

I'm new to the 3D world and Blender.

[blazsovdat]

hi, does the addon still work at blender 4.1 +?

[lucho]

I need to ask you a question, please, I'm finishing a pointcloud project and I've done almost everything with your tutorials, but I'm missing the final piece: How do I do if my photoscan mesh has more than one texture? I'm working with a photoscan of a big corridor (fbx workflow, not ply) and it has 3 textures, in all the pointcloud tutorials they only show how to connect one texture. thank you very much.

[Wakasamaa]

nice tutorial thanks you !
does someone know why I don't have the color attribute when I import the ply ? I have to click on the "plus" button to create one, my 3D scan don't have any color

[BreyceJimmy]

sorry to bother you, may i ask why when I add "mesh to points" in the Geometry Node then in my Shader Editor "Col" cannot be use any more?

[mowinkel]

Hey, im sorry to bother but blender can't seem to find the "Col" under Color Attribute. I can see it present in the Object Properties but when i try to asign the Col to the Color Attribute in the Shading menu it gives me the error that i cant find "". Glad for any help!

[nonprofit]

Why doest Col show up in the color attribute? I can see it was imported with the ply in the data attributes