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[solved] How to create a 2D Grid off-setted by a pattern (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/blender@lemmy.ml

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Hi all, I'm new to Blender and forgive me my maybe trivial question.

I want to create an array of spheres as seen on the left, but they should also vary on the X-axis according to the input pattern. Probably I'm missing something stupid...

Would be great, if somebody could help me.

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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

something like this?

I think in your version it should work, but since you only have one value (distance) instead of 3 (eg. xyz or rgb), you really can't displace in more directions. Use the color rather than the distance and vectormath instead of just regular math node :)

edit:

the voronoi texture doesn't really seem to have more components to it than one. swapped to noise and now the spheres get translated to every direction

[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your answer. I actually want only to displace the objects on the z-axis, but every single one depending on the pattern and not only the complete rows. I want to achieve something like this:

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

round (snap) to certain increments?

[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Cool thank you so much

[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I love playing around with it!