Baking in your node tree

Time to actually start baking now! We’ll start by opening a new project, adding a cube, and heading to our Geometry Nodes workspace. Let’s also add a new node tree to this cube.

We’ll start by showing how we can utilize the Bake node to simplify parts of our node tree so our computer does not have to recompute our node tree each time:

1. Add a Simulation Zone in between the Group Input and Group Output nodes. In this Simulation Zone, add a Transform Geometry node that will rotate our cube by 1 degree each frame.
2. Turn on the Timings option so we can visualize how long nodes are processing for, thus visualizing the amount of time we save when baking. This option can be seen in Figure 18.6:

Figure 18.6: Timings option

As seen in Chapter 14, this option allows us to see how long the nodes take to process each action.

3. When we take a look at our node tree, we can see that our nodes are processed...