Infinite Looping Starfield Blender Tutorial - No Man's Sky Loading Screen with Geometry Nodes

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An extensive, intermediate-difficulty Blender tutorial on how to make an infinitely looping, procedurally generated starfield scene using Geometry Nodes, in the style of the loading screen from No Man's Sky. Also includes some tricks for making your own infinite looping scenes based on this node group.

Important: Requires Blender 3.x Geometry Nodes. I used version 3.2, but it might be compatible with versions between this and 3.0 (further testing needed). I believe there is only one node that might not be available in earlier versions, but I've also included a workaround just in case.

This was a much longer video than I anticipated, and also much longer than I have edited before, so I would appreciate any feedback and I will try to answer questions in comments as much as I am able. Thank you for watching and I hope this is useful!

Music: Endless Drift - Harris Heller: streambeats.com

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:44 1. Starfield - First Instance
08:42 2. Starfield - Repeated Instances
11:49 3. Starfield - Motion
14:14 3. Modulo Function
18:19 3. Boolean Math
21:56 4. Starfield - Stellar Material
26:18 5. Starfield - Fade In
26:58 5. Camera Tricks
29:18 5. Loop Timing
30:46 6. Background Space
32:04 6. Caution: Hazardous Lights
35:07 6. Halfway Through!
35:45 7. Dust Clouds (Dark)
41:06 7. Noise Textures
41:29 7. Random Displacements
45:11 7. Additional Boolean Math
46:43 8. Dust Clouds (Dark) - Materials
50:47 8. Material Mask
54:15 8. More Camera Tricks
56:49 9. Dust Clouds (Light)
01:01:45 10. Dust Clouds (Light) - Refinement
01:04:35 10. Note on Light Clouds
01:04:45 11. Starfield - Motion Trails
01:06:54 12. Dust Clouds (Light) - Edge Fix
01:09:21 13. Background - Loop Consistency
01:10:02 14. Bonus - Bokeh Effect
01:10:51 15. Framerate Consistency
01:11:19 16. Conclusion
01:12:11 Thank you for watching!



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