Meta Balls with Geometry Nodes - The Joy of Proceduralism

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Fun little process of building our own custom metaballs inside Geometry Nodes for Blender 4.1.

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Contents:
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - What We're Doing
12:15 - Setting up the scene
20:20 - Why we will loop over points
27:30 - Setting up the SDF loop
54:15 - Volume Bounds
1:27:05 - Can we subtract SDFs?
1:38:48 - Generating Masks
1:54:06 - Material Setup
2:00:48 - Random Colours
2:16:10 - Adding arbitrary objects
2:19:00 - Setting up the geometry SDF loop
2:22:22 - Define add / subtract per object
2:29:15 - Driving game preview
2:48:40 - Processing curves
2:59:40 - Mesh to SDF attempts
3:39:20 - What is Minimum doing?
3:46:30 - Picking personal projects
3:50:00 - Fixing colours and masks for meshes
4:17:57 - Trying to solve errors
4:47:20 - General subtractive mask
4:46:56 - Ending

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