3D Pixels

3D Pixels

is a blender project using geometry nodes that let's you create 3D pixel/pin art - like renders quickly by transforming 2 pictures into a totally new one with options to guide this process. 

Disclaimer 

• Made for Cycles renderer! 
• Tested on: Windows, Blender version: 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3

Workflow 

• Select an image to be used as a color map 
• Select an image to be used as a height map 
• Select an object to instance 
• Tweak some additional settings 
• Render away! 

Notes 

• Included a few simple materials in the .blend file to play around with
• The exposed settings in the sidebar panel are realized by using a python script that is inside the blender file and can be found under the scripting tab. A whole addon would be overkill for this and would complicate the whole process of using this project. Using a single script is much more sensible, but comes with a small inconvenience that is it’s need to be run once every time blender is opened.

Documentation

• Fix: check if material node doesn't exist
• Fix: boolean operation enum set function
• Fix: modifiers have no update tag option, removed
• Fix: typos
• Change: set default render resolution to 100% from 300%