LIVENODING Geometry Nodes Point Cloud Instancing

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pointcloud_geometrynodes_02.blend.zip

POINT CLOUD

Point Cloud object is still rather new and ongoing being developed in Blender 2.92 onwards. In the past some other Blender dev and artist made effort to "hack" pointcloud: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/104632/pythonscript-to-load-data-as-colored-point-cloud https://blender.community/c/graphicall/Fjbbbc/ https://developer.blender.org/D6569

If you just want to import actual point cloud data, VISUALIZE and RENDER the point clouds, you can simply use addon Point Cloud Visualizer.

NEW point cloud object: https://developer.blender.org/T75717

For what we are doing, we simply use the basic point cloud object and instance our own objects.

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BONUS VIDEO:

Point Distribute using Vertex Weight paint. https://youtu.be/BgO_O6l7zeo

point_distribute_002.blend.zip

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If with Dynamic Paint:

point_distribute_004.blend.zip