Power Nodes - Thread

rpopovici

I present to you: Power Nodes.

Official page: https://www.power-nodes.com/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radupopovici

Twitter: https://twitter.com/radu_popovic

Github: https://github.com/rpopovici/power-nodes

Blender artists forum: https://blenderartists.org/t/power-nodes-project/1237749

Goals of this project:

• user friendly node based modeling, animation and simulation solution, with focus on UI/UX
• interactive operators with automatic node sensing and activation
• performant operators, accelereated with GPU/CUDA cores
• declarative style operators and nodes
• uncluttered nodes interface
• node parametrization and data binding
• reusable digital assets
  
• fewer connection as possible
• pass-through state
• automatic conversion to and from mesh/object/curve/collection/etc when required
• generic operators based on standard ops, modifiers and bmesh already working
• live node previews
• custom python operators
• independent/autonomous operators from blender internal(affect blenders internal affairs as little as possible)

Long term goals:

• integration with everything nodes if possible
• complete workflows for game development
• batched processing and optimizations
• multi user support
• unity/unreal exchange
• animation/simulation integration
• and many more…

Very long term: 

• relase as stand-alone app with other packages integration

This project is in early state of prototyping. When it will be ready for prime time, I will release it on blender market and gumroad. Any C&C are welcome.

rpopovici

Live edits

Interactive primitive creation and extrude

Keyframing and drivers for nodes

rpopovici

Release notes(not released yet):

v0.1

• generic operators based on standard ops, modifiers and bmesh already working
• live node previews
• live primitives
• cached node output
• ops, modifiers and bmesh integration works well with some hacking, edit mode ops not working thus
• fast voxelized preview for extra large meshes
• basic keyframing and drivers
• CSG boolean integration
• destructive extrude
• cursor snapping
  

rpopovici

Patreon page it's up for the power-nodes addon at: https://www.patreon.com/radupopovici

melviso

Great job, mate.

rpopovici

@melviso thanks!

rpopovici

Massive update for Power Nodes:

• fixed linux installation. it should work now on any distribution(win/mac/linux) with graphics and opengl 3.3 enabled
• numba installation path changed. it is installed now in home user folder instead of using installation folder
• major redesign of the nodes. the node type cannot be changed anymore after creation. this was needed becase of UI/UX issues
• attribute create/expression/elevate/copy/transport/random/smooth implemented
• material node
• dedicated output node
• conversion nodes for/from float/vector/matrix
• enable CUDASIM if CUDA is not detected
• custom outliner UI component
• multi collection input support
• more expression presets
• lots of bugs fixed

Github link: https://github.com/rpopovici/power-nodes