WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:07.440 Welcome to making texture's look more three day in this video you play with the texture planes to alter 00:07.440 --> 00:08.690 their appearance. 00:08.910 --> 00:15.300 I understand that the more complexity you add here the less you may need later on. 00:15.630 --> 00:18.950 So we're going to take a simple blade of grass. 00:19.050 --> 00:25.080 Just our texture that we've played with before and we're going to make it into something much more vibrant 00:25.140 --> 00:28.390 a 3D object as we spin round here. 00:28.500 --> 00:31.490 We can see that it is truly 3-d. 00:31.650 --> 00:36.160 So let's go create something like this and hop on over into a blender. 00:36.420 --> 00:40.870 Okay so hidden in our hills at the moment we've got some blades of grass. 00:40.920 --> 00:48.890 The first thing I'm going to do is just well I'm going to rename these so this grass seed here well 00:48.930 --> 00:54.040 there are one fifth layer so let's hop over to there now getting rid of everything else or actor press 00:54.050 --> 00:58.480 than number five on the keypad itself. 01:00.650 --> 01:07.130 On the keyboard itself an ominous zoom around here and I'm going to change the viewport shading down 01:07.130 --> 01:12.280 here to the material modes I can see what's going on. 01:12.560 --> 01:17.350 Okay so it looks like this one here is the tool blade of grass. 01:17.420 --> 01:19.980 So I'm going to call this grass. 01:20.790 --> 01:21.620 Tall. 01:21.840 --> 01:22.960 And then see. 01:23.040 --> 01:25.490 Just so I know what's going on. 01:25.530 --> 01:28.180 This is grass medium. 01:29.550 --> 01:34.890 And I'm going to call it grass medium one because we've got another one here which Scott on a raid modifier 01:34.890 --> 01:35.850 applied to it. 01:35.850 --> 01:38.550 I'm going to remove that array we're not going to use that. 01:38.550 --> 01:41.790 That was just to demonstrate the light path's themselves. 01:41.790 --> 01:47.260 And I'm going to call this grass medium too. 01:47.820 --> 01:54.060 And then the final one is this little one down here which must be this one the grasp of background. 01:54.120 --> 01:57.740 I'm going to rename that one grass short. 01:59.240 --> 02:00.070 Excellent. 02:00.080 --> 02:01.860 So we've got these four here. 02:01.880 --> 02:03.660 I'm actually going to hide them now. 02:03.670 --> 02:09.220 I'm going to take a duplicate of my grass short by using shift Andy. 02:10.220 --> 02:10.880 Of being there. 02:10.880 --> 02:12.380 That's absolutely fine. 02:12.620 --> 02:19.390 And I'm going to name this grass short example because that's what we're going to use in a few moments. 02:19.400 --> 02:29.490 Now I'm going to do a bit tidying here and I'm going to select these grass grasses and put them. 02:30.810 --> 02:33.330 On the ground plain themselves. 02:33.420 --> 02:35.190 Just move them there manually. 02:35.370 --> 02:36.640 Probably be quicker. 02:36.990 --> 02:41.210 Okay so underneath the ground plane I have four types of grass. 02:41.220 --> 02:45.210 We've currently got if you've got more or less that's absolutely fine. 02:45.640 --> 02:46.140 Okay. 02:46.140 --> 02:53.250 Let's go ahead and move this should short example that we're going to be working on to a new layer a 02:53.250 --> 02:54.150 press m. 02:54.470 --> 02:59.220 And I'm going to move it to layer 6 I suppose. 02:59.220 --> 03:00.960 There we go. 03:00.990 --> 03:02.260 Now we've got it on there six. 03:02.280 --> 03:05.020 We can just view it by itself. 03:05.100 --> 03:10.850 So we have our blade of grass and we want to make it look a little bit more 3D. 03:10.890 --> 03:13.770 So I'll just pan across to it now. 03:13.770 --> 03:16.300 Right now we have this in front of us. 03:16.300 --> 03:23.920 What we can do is start manipulating it and some very simple ways you can do this is to duplicate again. 03:24.140 --> 03:29.270 Now you got to watch out on the outline of us and get too crazy. 03:29.340 --> 03:31.020 But we can group it together all at the end. 03:31.020 --> 03:35.020 So we're going to duplicate that which we've done. 03:35.020 --> 03:42.110 I'm going to rotate it immediately on the z axis by let's say one at 80. 03:43.620 --> 03:44.770 Disappeared somewhere. 03:44.790 --> 03:45.770 Where's it gone. 03:45.930 --> 03:53.280 So it's just zoom out and see if we can see what's going on okay the pivot point is the 3-d cursor down 03:53.280 --> 03:53.680 here. 03:53.700 --> 03:59.550 So I'll be spinning around the 3D cursor so we dont want that we will change the 3-d as the pivot point 03:59.790 --> 04:06.090 from the 3D cursor to the medium points which will put it right on the origin of our object which is 04:06.090 --> 04:06.450 great. 04:06.450 --> 04:07.680 Thats what we want. 04:07.980 --> 04:17.480 So Im going to wrote Oh sorry jubilate first and then rotate on the z axis by 180. 04:19.520 --> 04:19.790 Yeah. 04:19.810 --> 04:21.440 We get Okay. 04:21.450 --> 04:24.390 And now I'm going to move that out ever sisler. 04:24.390 --> 04:28.410 It looks like I'm going to have to do a bit of rotating otherwise that's going to look like a funny 04:28.410 --> 04:29.280 grass plants. 04:29.280 --> 04:31.140 I'm just going to rotate that round. 04:31.140 --> 04:35.670 I am viewing it first from the front. 04:35.670 --> 04:41.790 You may have to do a side depending on where you place them or even the top if you still got them laying 04:41.790 --> 04:42.800 flat on the ground. 04:42.810 --> 04:49.080 Although they should have completed one of the last videos challenges to make sure that they're all 04:49.080 --> 04:49.870 the right way up. 04:49.980 --> 04:55.740 All looks we've got another blade of grass here that's okay we'll scale that one down by pressing the 04:55.740 --> 05:02.050 right key and do excuse me I can't always see the keyboard and rotate that one around a little further. 05:02.370 --> 05:10.320 Okay so now we've got a grass plant that's still to day but it's getting there so let's select all three 05:10.320 --> 05:20.190 of those and duplicate them in a scale them up ever so slightly and rotate them around on the z axis 05:20.190 --> 05:21.310 by Nancy. 05:23.010 --> 05:25.440 Okay that sunscreens and looked pretty good. 05:25.650 --> 05:28.630 And I'm going to scale them. 05:28.860 --> 05:29.380 Oh my. 05:29.390 --> 05:36.180 Will want to take a duplicate first and then scale that in ever so slightly and rotate it on the z axis 05:36.180 --> 05:43.980 by maybe 60 this time so it's not always 90 and there we go we can slowly build up a grass plant that 05:43.980 --> 05:45.920 looks pretty awesome. 05:45.930 --> 05:50.190 So the final thing that we're going to need to do here will be to group all this slots together some 05:50.190 --> 05:56.070 coming use border select by the b key select everything and I'm going to join them all together with 05:56.130 --> 05:57.460 control and J. 05:57.790 --> 06:06.180 And um I feel like just duplicating it once more was shifting day and rotating it on the z axis again 06:06.180 --> 06:11.260 by another one the pick a random number one hundred thirty five. 06:11.520 --> 06:14.380 Just to make it a little bit more dense and I'm going to. 06:15.440 --> 06:21.070 Scale that in ever so slightly to select them both and join them. 06:21.230 --> 06:23.480 And then I'm going to do one final thing. 06:23.480 --> 06:25.460 I'm going to duplicate it once more. 06:25.460 --> 06:26.900 Rotate it on the z axis. 06:26.900 --> 06:32.110 But this time it's going to move around and randomly pick a point. 06:34.170 --> 06:35.710 That feels right to me. 06:35.890 --> 06:37.790 Okay so it's much more dense now. 06:37.800 --> 06:43.520 And when we go to I'm not going to render the image there I'm literally just going to be rendered just 06:43.530 --> 06:47.860 here that looks like a much fuller grass. 06:48.180 --> 06:57.570 So let's go ahead and hop back into material mode selects the two grasses that we have joined together 06:57.600 --> 07:02.840 into one and I'm going to call this grass paw grass short. 07:04.130 --> 07:05.230 Plants. 07:05.970 --> 07:06.480 Excellent. 07:06.480 --> 07:09.670 I'm going to group that under the ground playing. 07:10.020 --> 07:12.390 And there's one final thing that I'd like to show you here. 07:12.390 --> 07:15.210 Perhaps I should have shown you before making a whole plant up. 07:15.270 --> 07:24.200 So what I will do is I will work on a another layer quickly and I'm going to add a nother images plane 07:24.240 --> 07:32.310 and I'm going to grab my grass blade PRNG again or let's just undo that let's put the 3-d cursor in 07:32.310 --> 07:38.760 the middle and try adding that again but this time remembering to select the fuse and transparent and 07:38.760 --> 07:41.480 to use the alph for Channel. 07:41.570 --> 07:45.190 So with the grass blade selected here it should come in. 07:45.330 --> 07:49.980 I'm going to look at it from the top so you guys can see what's going on. 07:49.980 --> 07:56.150 Not to bother reposition the origin but what we can do here is for instance add loop cuts in. 07:56.550 --> 08:02.060 So in edit mode we could add a couple of loop cuts in or we can even subdivide. 08:03.030 --> 08:08.460 So I'm going to subdivide it a couple of times and you see that's probably over the top but you will 08:08.460 --> 08:13.240 see that this allows us to alter the shape of our model. 08:13.320 --> 08:15.790 And I can't see why that. 08:15.810 --> 08:18.680 Oh yeah the proportional addicting size is up. 08:18.810 --> 08:22.300 So this enables us to twist and shape and remodel. 08:22.320 --> 08:23.510 Ah ah. 08:23.520 --> 08:28.190 Blade of grass to our heart's content obviously you can do some very weird things. 08:28.200 --> 08:35.430 And the reason why we add this extra geometry is if we've just got these four vertices on the end it 08:35.430 --> 08:39.870 becomes quite difficult if we go and grab a vertex and move it. 08:39.900 --> 08:43.670 You can see it has a harsh change just around here. 08:44.740 --> 08:50.770 And that's not so great when trying to make something look a bit better so you can move this around 08:50.770 --> 08:56.330 in the more geometry your ADD so we go and subdivide select everything. 08:56.470 --> 08:59.130 Subdivide it gives us more control. 09:00.000 --> 09:07.470 Over this particular model so as well as rotating that well like we did to make it flat we could actually 09:07.470 --> 09:15.570 pull this virtex out a little and make it a little bit taller although sometimes it can squish parts 09:15.570 --> 09:18.060 of the model you didn't want to squish. 09:18.060 --> 09:20.140 There's lots of to play with for her. 09:20.250 --> 09:26.370 And in fact what you can do is make this a bit more three dimensional in itself so you can have the 09:26.370 --> 09:35.040 grass actually curving round in 3-d space even though it's just the flat texture and unlike normal geometry 09:35.040 --> 09:36.900 when you're filling it in. 09:36.960 --> 09:40.740 It's obviously got a couple of sharp angles here as it moves. 09:40.830 --> 09:48.570 Now those angles are determined by the geometry itself not so of just for example or not anything to 09:48.570 --> 09:49.950 do with the shading. 09:50.040 --> 09:56.960 You've got set so if you wanted to be a smooth transition if you're making a texture more 3D you're 09:56.970 --> 10:01.670 going to have to add more subdivision's or something along those lines. 10:01.890 --> 10:08.110 And once you have more subdivisions you can start moving things with a little more fun ness. 10:08.130 --> 10:11.320 So it's not so wonky. 10:11.460 --> 10:11.970 There we go. 10:11.970 --> 10:19.220 So that should now curve round a little bit better than how it was before school got a few sharp angles. 10:19.320 --> 10:22.840 But in general that is much much better. 10:23.160 --> 10:25.320 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 10:25.320 --> 10:28.550 I'd like you to make more grass plants. 10:28.560 --> 10:31.110 So make one or two more grass plants. 10:31.200 --> 10:34.700 This will help with making our grass look better. 10:34.920 --> 10:42.300 Now remember to preserve the original blades when making those plants pulls a video now and give that 10:42.300 --> 10:42.890 a go. 10:45.030 --> 10:45.660 Okay guys. 10:45.660 --> 10:46.480 Welcome back. 10:46.590 --> 10:48.740 Let's hop back over into blender. 10:49.700 --> 10:52.000 So I'm going to use the blade of grass. 10:52.010 --> 10:58.320 I've been working on here to demonstrate how you can work around your model itself. 10:58.360 --> 11:05.300 I'm going to set the origin point first of all so let's come out of here and hopefully that sat on the 11:05.300 --> 11:05.690 mesh. 11:05.690 --> 11:06.770 Yes it has. 11:07.040 --> 11:14.150 And I'm going to go up here and set the origin to this 3-d cursor that gives me lots of options including 11:14.150 --> 11:16.930 planting it firmly on the ground. 11:17.090 --> 11:25.590 And I'm just going to rotate this round on the x axis by 90 I think minus 90. 11:25.590 --> 11:26.450 There we go. 11:26.470 --> 11:29.500 So we've now got that coming out of the ground. 11:29.510 --> 11:36.060 I'm going to hop into object mode and I think I'm going to duplicate it all. 11:36.140 --> 11:38.000 Let's set the zero first. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.890 Before I do any of that I think I've got a duplicate there as well. 11:40.930 --> 11:41.460 Yeah. 11:41.720 --> 11:45.890 It just helps when things are all sprouting from the same place especially with grass because if you 11:45.890 --> 11:53.330 have a look at a grass plant it does tend to all sprout from a similar location and can adjudicate those 11:53.420 --> 11:56.150 pretty and round locks them to the z axis. 11:56.150 --> 11:58.200 Come round here perhaps. 11:58.490 --> 12:01.570 Okay so that's starting to look pretty good. 12:01.790 --> 12:04.280 I'm going to do some scaling here. 12:04.430 --> 12:07.290 So it looks a wee bit different. 12:07.310 --> 12:11.080 I'm actually going to bring in another texture on here. 12:11.090 --> 12:18.800 So we've got our grass tool I'm going to Jew placates Our can't do it whilst the layers not active. 12:18.800 --> 12:26.390 So let's go and find our grass was our grass tool Oh my upsidedown. 12:26.390 --> 12:29.380 I think I just might have built the last thing upside down. 12:29.390 --> 12:30.560 Did anybody spot that. 12:30.560 --> 12:31.580 I certainly didn't. 12:31.580 --> 12:33.790 I was too engrossed in making some grass. 12:33.950 --> 12:34.870 Me Wait. 12:34.970 --> 12:35.900 Let's duplicate. 12:35.900 --> 12:40.380 That's embarrassment out of the way and move it to the appropriate level. 12:40.380 --> 12:42.740 I think I'm working on they are 6. 12:43.690 --> 12:45.000 Or am I on there 7. 12:45.010 --> 12:51.890 I think I am on layer 7 at the moment so let's move it again to layer 7. 12:52.430 --> 12:58.720 Okay it does look like I produced some stuff upside down so I can select all of these grass blades here. 13:00.350 --> 13:03.440 And just dropped this one out for the moments of these one. 13:03.460 --> 13:05.200 This one this one and this one. 13:05.350 --> 13:08.740 And explain why the rotation was a bit funky. 13:08.860 --> 13:10.200 And there we go. 13:10.360 --> 13:13.520 It's amazing what happens when you're not paying full attention. 13:13.720 --> 13:22.600 So I'm going to bring that up and sighted at zero zero and zero sort of one here is to produce a plant 13:22.720 --> 13:26.070 that's basically a seeded plant. 13:26.080 --> 13:28.610 Let's see how that's looking at the moments. 13:29.920 --> 13:31.000 Looking pretty good. 13:31.000 --> 13:34.090 Now it says she got some grass down the bottom. 13:34.090 --> 13:35.860 I'm pretty happy with that. 13:36.010 --> 13:40.030 So I'm going to group them all together song and select them all. 13:40.600 --> 13:44.020 And let's just come out in back into material mode. 13:44.110 --> 13:48.190 This orange border by the way can get quite irritating. 13:48.190 --> 13:55.390 You can turn it off in the propertys if we scroll down and go to display there's an outline selective 13:55.390 --> 14:01.630 that you can toggle on and off and when you start having a geometry as you can see here turning that 14:01.630 --> 14:07.840 on and off can help massively and we'll probably use that again later on when we've got lots and lots 14:07.840 --> 14:09.350 of blades of grass going on. 14:09.370 --> 14:11.950 So I quite like what's gone on there. 14:11.950 --> 14:18.100 I'm just wondering if you look at it from this way it's not so great. 14:18.100 --> 14:23.730 So let's produce two of these tools seeds before grouping it all together. 14:24.060 --> 14:25.170 Or. 14:25.480 --> 14:25.850 Yeah. 14:25.990 --> 14:34.100 That's that's worked from there so that's duplicate that and rotate it on the z axis by 90 degrees. 14:34.240 --> 14:37.020 Not the z axis I'm British. 14:37.060 --> 14:38.040 There we go. 14:38.430 --> 14:40.260 So we've got that coming out there. 14:41.640 --> 14:45.230 Might as well have a third one I think so. 14:45.230 --> 14:49.090 Jupe Cates rotate Z. 14:50.130 --> 14:53.510 Let's have it fair solent. 14:53.790 --> 14:56.510 So that looks like a pretty good grasp. 14:56.650 --> 15:01.890 I'm going to make these one of these look ever so slightly different so again I'm going to turn on the 15:01.890 --> 15:02.790 outline selected. 15:02.790 --> 15:06.190 This is when you do want it on of course when you're trying to see things. 15:06.360 --> 15:08.370 And let make this one a little taller. 15:08.370 --> 15:11.130 This one a little shorter. 15:11.160 --> 15:11.610 There we go. 15:11.610 --> 15:18.420 Now they don't look so much like copies of one another and then go into edit mode here and try at she 15:18.420 --> 15:22.030 to straighten that up a little more. 15:23.290 --> 15:24.940 So just look straight and tall. 15:24.950 --> 15:26.700 And I don't mind of the other. 15:26.780 --> 15:29.150 Are a little bit curvy. 15:29.150 --> 15:33.500 Let's grab this one here is where I am of course this is one of these things again. 15:33.830 --> 15:36.800 Does it matter if you do so much with it. 15:36.800 --> 15:42.770 Well with most things in blender and in life I suppose the more you put into it the more you're going 15:42.770 --> 15:43.790 to get out. 15:43.790 --> 15:46.750 Obviously we've got diminishing returns at some point. 15:46.880 --> 15:48.040 I'm going to stop there. 15:48.050 --> 15:50.490 I'm going to group all of these together. 15:51.370 --> 15:57.580 And that I think is all of them are selected them in the outline and thereby holding down a shift. 15:57.580 --> 16:00.960 And I'm going to join them all together with control and J. 16:01.240 --> 16:05.620 And what's it called at the moment grass blade 0 1 dot. 16:05.710 --> 16:06.730 That's no good. 16:06.780 --> 16:10.030 So it's a grass tone caps off. 16:10.210 --> 16:12.990 It's a grass it's a seeded grass. 16:13.760 --> 16:20.140 And it's a plants so grass seed plant planet not quite plant. 16:20.180 --> 16:20.980 Excellent. 16:20.990 --> 16:22.280 How did you guys get on. 16:22.280 --> 16:25.910 Id love to see what grass plants you managed to create. 16:25.910 --> 16:30.340 Please share them in discussions and I will see you guys in the next lecture.