Solar array deployment system for Blender (Geometry Nodes)

Blender 3.0+ required!

This is a Geometry nodes tree that allows you to easily deploy solar panel arrays, in order to quickly animate realistic or sci-fi spacecraft.

Features:

• All angles set with a single value, easy to keyframe.

• Custom number of panels.

• The first panel can be changed for a different mesh.

• The array can be mirrored with one click.

• Multiple solar panels and connectors already included, but you can create your own.

Usage:

Download the Blender file, append the nodegroup "SolarArrayDeployer" into your own projects, and apply it to any mesh. Alternatively you can download the file into your Asset library path, the node group is marked as an asset already.