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  • Published 1 Feb 2022

Adress nested collections via Geometry Nodes

NestedCollections.PNG It could be quite essential to navigate down the hierarchy of collections using Geometry nodes.

Example: a procedural building is made up of 25 different collections with parts (roofs, corners etc.). Now the user wants to change the building style. He'd need to change 25 collections to reference the other style. It would be easier if one could just select a single "master collection" and the subcollections could be sorted out using nodes.

You wouldn't want to put all parts in one collection, because then you could not vary the number of part-variations per collection without breaking the node setup - so nesting collections is unavoidable.

However, right now all subcollections are joined into a single object, after one separation.

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kammerbild
1 Feb 2022

4 Comments

mystpan1

Working on a node based on the code linked by modormoder developer.blender.org/D14049

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kammerbild Author

That looks great. I really hope the Blender Dev Team will consider putting it into a build! Thank you

i saw that the project is abandoned, how to add the code on developer.blender.org/D14049 to my blender ?