WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:03.600 Welcome to using sapling to make a basic tree. 00:03.900 --> 00:10.520 In this video you will look at the tree presets see how to add leaves to your tree and sapling. 00:10.530 --> 00:16.290 Learn where The leaves are actually placed on the tree and how to get it looking more like a real tree 00:16.350 --> 00:17.460 at the base. 00:17.520 --> 00:24.040 So just as an example here we've got is not got any materials on it it's just a plain material there. 00:24.120 --> 00:28.760 But we can see that very rarely would trees into the ground if you look at the base of the tree here 00:29.430 --> 00:33.170 like that they would more enter the ground something along these lines. 00:33.300 --> 00:37.430 And that's a far better looking base far more interesting as well. 00:37.740 --> 00:41.650 So let's go explore that now and hop on over into a blender. 00:43.420 --> 00:48.850 So we've made a lovely bush with a couple of flowers on it over in blender so far and we need to make 00:48.880 --> 00:49.600 a tree now. 00:49.600 --> 00:52.280 So let's go explore sapling a little further. 00:52.330 --> 00:54.230 I'm going to move onto another layer. 00:54.250 --> 00:58.370 I'm going to go on to led 10 this time I'm going to centre the 3D cursor. 00:58.400 --> 01:04.120 Oh not with those keys we're shift an S and cursor to centre. 01:04.480 --> 01:09.340 And let's go ahead and add ourselves a curve and add a tree. 01:09.340 --> 01:11.840 Now again I'm going to make this tree a lot shorter. 01:11.840 --> 01:18.550 I'm going to untop all lock camera to view as well and try and give myself a bit more space on my low 01:18.550 --> 01:20.020 resolution screen here. 01:20.240 --> 01:22.320 Okay I'm going to turn bevel on so I can see it was going on. 01:22.320 --> 01:27.970 I'm also going to turn up the bevell resolution because this is going to be a large object if if that's 01:27.970 --> 01:28.540 too low. 01:28.540 --> 01:30.700 It's going to look very blocky. 01:30.700 --> 01:36.160 I'm going to lower the scale down to maybe five or so so I can see it as not too big in the scene it 01:36.160 --> 01:38.050 doesn't need to be too big either. 01:38.080 --> 01:45.100 Now further down here there's actually a load preset a button so if you make a tree and you'd like the 01:45.100 --> 01:48.820 look of it you can always reload the preset at any time. 01:48.880 --> 01:53.890 And on here there's a couple of options already here have already saved one in fact called starting 01:53.890 --> 01:54.530 tree. 01:54.790 --> 01:58.590 But I really like these see a black coaker been playing with them all. 01:58.690 --> 02:03.040 And I really like the way that comes out and again we're going to just have to all wouldn't want a resolution 02:03.040 --> 02:04.440 of 80. 02:04.480 --> 02:10.150 I'm going to go for six in this case that should give us a bit of smoothness as you can see it's still 02:10.150 --> 02:12.880 quite a big tree so let's lower the scale down. 02:12.880 --> 02:15.360 Let's take it down to five or so. 02:15.970 --> 02:17.100 That's looking pretty good. 02:17.110 --> 02:20.850 In fact I'm still in Cannes review that's come out of Own i'll be able to zoom out and look around. 02:21.250 --> 02:24.490 Okay so that is looking pretty good for the moment. 02:24.490 --> 02:31.450 Now to add leaves to this tree we'd need to hop over to as you probably guess the leaf settings and 02:31.640 --> 02:39.370 schematic on show leaves and what this is going to do is it's going to add 25 leaves to the end of each 02:39.430 --> 02:41.470 of the branches. 02:41.470 --> 02:48.610 Now we've only got a couple of branches coming out of here so if we go back to the branch growth setting 02:49.230 --> 02:55.930 up I do apologize the branch splitting section section is on this second level that the leaves appear 02:56.260 --> 02:59.940 so until it's on that second level there won't be any leaves at all. 02:59.950 --> 03:06.730 So one way to boost this and get leaves all over the entire tree will be to increase the levels here 03:06.730 --> 03:07.800 to number three. 03:08.050 --> 03:11.180 But let's before we do that just check the numbers here. 03:11.470 --> 03:17.890 So we've got 40 branches each with 120 branches coming out where K and each one of those hundred and 03:17.890 --> 03:21.630 twenty is going to have twenty five leaves on it. 03:21.670 --> 03:29.110 So I'm anticipating it's a stop blender working for a few months while I do this and your computer may 03:29.110 --> 03:35.080 take a little longer but if so then lower these figures though ago it took a few seconds to do. 03:35.100 --> 03:39.790 We could see straightaway we've got some leaves on our tree and I really like the way that this one 03:39.790 --> 03:41.950 is dropping down towards the ground as well. 03:41.950 --> 03:44.980 I can use that to my advantage right. 03:45.100 --> 03:50.720 Let's deal now with how this looks at the very bottom I'm going to get rid of this render board as well. 03:50.720 --> 03:53.140 I'm finding it a bit distracting. 03:53.800 --> 03:59.350 So down here this comes to a complete sort of dead stop straying to the ground. 03:59.500 --> 04:02.380 We want that to happen we want to have a more natural. 04:02.470 --> 04:07.870 So the first thing we're going to have to do is this is still a curve object so just like you've done 04:07.870 --> 04:16.510 to your bush beforehand on the tree we're going to go out and see and we're going to make a mesh from 04:16.510 --> 04:17.820 the curved data. 04:17.830 --> 04:18.990 Not going to keep the original. 04:19.000 --> 04:24.430 I'm quite happy that we are going to lose that data and now we've done that we can actually go in to 04:24.430 --> 04:30.250 sculpt mode then there's loads of ways of doing this but obviously in sculped mode we can start doing 04:30.280 --> 04:34.330 a bit of alteration if we hop into edit mode before we do that. 04:34.330 --> 04:39.010 You see there's not much geometry down here which means that the standard sculpting is not going to 04:39.010 --> 04:41.670 be that well. 04:43.340 --> 04:45.830 Isn't going to be that precise. 04:45.830 --> 04:49.040 In fact it's just going to move a couple of earths is round so we're going to have to turn on as we've 04:49.040 --> 04:50.170 done before. 04:50.330 --> 04:56.270 We're going to have to turn on the dynamic topology which is going to create more space more geometry 04:56.270 --> 04:57.210 for us as we go nave. 04:57.260 --> 05:02.870 Going to have to be careful as well because you may end up adding too much detail to your tree. 05:02.870 --> 05:04.350 Now down at the bottom here. 05:04.390 --> 05:06.350 Oh that's subtract some disconnect. 05:06.350 --> 05:11.690 Literally go ahead and start adding some detail making a bit bulkier at the bottom. 05:12.050 --> 05:12.780 Excellent. 05:12.800 --> 05:20.090 And we can try something like the snake hook here make it a bit smaller and see if we can pull outs 05:20.210 --> 05:25.880 and then zoom in for this one so I can pull out a bit more or I've got mirroring turned on you can see 05:25.880 --> 05:28.320 how all it's just. 05:29.830 --> 05:32.610 It's 10 at the radius just a little so we can grab some more. 05:32.610 --> 05:38.480 There we go that's starting to look a bit better more like a root system coming out of the tree. 05:39.480 --> 05:45.970 I've got mirroring turned on but that's not too much of a big deal at this point in time. 05:46.040 --> 05:49.410 And now around here were the branches actually are. 05:49.430 --> 05:56.500 It may pay us a little bit to make that look just a little bit more blended around there. 05:57.330 --> 06:02.430 So that when we're looking at the tree later on it doesn't look like these branches are just literally 06:02.430 --> 06:04.080 stuck on. 06:04.080 --> 06:09.240 Now it only matters with the low down ones because I'm probably only going to be seeing that but making 06:09.240 --> 06:10.790 them a little more blended in. 06:10.800 --> 06:12.890 It's going to help massively. 06:13.010 --> 06:16.810 Now obviously be careful how much detail you add cause it will. 06:17.550 --> 06:21.390 Look if you zoom out too far that will happen. 06:21.390 --> 06:27.030 Remember the distance you zoom out will depend on the level of detail of dynamic topology works every 06:27.030 --> 06:28.090 zoom right in. 06:28.140 --> 06:30.370 You can add a little knot in there. 06:30.690 --> 06:36.710 And if we zoom all the way out if we try and do the same thing it wrecks the tree completely. 06:36.750 --> 06:42.930 So there's lots to play about here a lot to do to make this tree look a bit better than just a plain 06:42.930 --> 06:44.590 old stick in the ground. 06:44.790 --> 06:48.750 And of course with that in mind I got a challenge for you guys. 06:48.900 --> 06:51.100 I would like you to finish your scene. 06:51.300 --> 06:57.390 So create a tree for the scene and give the tree and leaves a material. 06:57.390 --> 07:01.130 Make any changes to your scene that you deem necessary. 07:01.200 --> 07:07.710 Remember to keep your samples low whilst prototyping and moving things about and then render your final 07:07.710 --> 07:09.570 scene and share with us. 07:09.600 --> 07:14.550 In the discussions I really do like seeing what you guys have created. 07:14.640 --> 07:18.560 I'm looking forward to seeing this scene all coming together. 07:18.570 --> 07:22.110 Remember to keep those samples low I can't stress that enough. 07:22.110 --> 07:26.650 Don't be waiting around ages just to see if something is in the right position. 07:26.760 --> 07:27.720 Keep them low. 07:27.780 --> 07:30.010 Prototype rapidly go backwards and forwards. 07:30.020 --> 07:34.110 Try it out and then finally turn up the samples for that final scene. 07:34.110 --> 07:35.250 Don't go crazy with it. 07:35.250 --> 07:40.430 We don't need it super high rez or millions and millions of samples. 07:40.570 --> 07:46.590 Just get it to a decent enough quality so you can share with us all your creation. 07:46.590 --> 07:49.480 Pause a video now and give that a go. 07:51.810 --> 07:52.400 Okay guys. 07:52.410 --> 07:53.460 Welcome back. 07:53.460 --> 07:56.600 Let's hop over and finish our scene in blender. 07:57.430 --> 08:01.630 Right so let's go ahead and have a look at how this is currently looking. 08:01.640 --> 08:04.210 Well first of all I can see before doing anything else. 08:04.270 --> 08:06.730 I know we haven't assigned any material of some going to do that. 08:06.730 --> 08:10.310 First of all so we've got the tree nested under the tree. 08:18.670 --> 08:20.580 We have our leaves. 08:20.590 --> 08:26.890 So if I go to the tree first anger to the material tab I'm just going to add a very basic material and 08:26.920 --> 08:33.140 I'm going to call its branches or chinari or word or something along those lines of them to call it 08:33.140 --> 08:33.730 a tree. 08:34.000 --> 08:40.360 And I'm going to change that colour to a all not an orange but I suppose it could be but a darker brown 08:41.110 --> 08:43.070 case something along those lines. 08:43.210 --> 08:46.120 If you go out and look at trees they're not necessarily dark brown. 08:46.120 --> 08:49.120 They may be whites and with bits on them. 08:49.120 --> 08:54.970 But we are not going to detail it with texture at the moment and the leaves well what colour leaves 08:54.970 --> 08:59.390 do we want do we want an autumn leaf do we want a bright summer leaf. 08:59.390 --> 09:05.010 Well I'm doing a midsummer's day in this one so let's call the material leaves. 09:05.030 --> 09:06.880 Is there going to be green. 09:07.240 --> 09:11.310 I'm going to leave it as a diffuse colour but I'm certainly not going to have them. 09:11.440 --> 09:14.490 That's bright and leave it around there. 09:14.500 --> 09:19.630 Of course I can play with the materials and build up a bit speculatory in there as well to give to the 09:19.630 --> 09:20.880 leaves a bit of a shine. 09:20.890 --> 09:24.650 And let's have a look at the tree as a whole that looks pretty good. 09:24.720 --> 09:30.920 Now let's start bringing other things into our scene some going to go to my layer's tab here. 09:31.200 --> 09:37.930 And on the layers management and just see how it looks with the Cameron lighting turned on that's important 09:38.350 --> 09:40.590 and the grass layer. 09:40.780 --> 09:46.020 So my tree itself I want to shift up to the top here so I'm just going to grab it all. 09:46.180 --> 09:51.200 The whole thing had to grab the whole thing and move it. 09:51.520 --> 09:53.520 Well I will grab the right thing in a moment. 09:53.520 --> 09:54.810 There we go grab the tree. 09:57.660 --> 09:58.910 I'm still in sculpt mode. 09:58.910 --> 10:03.590 That's why switch over to object mode and I'm going to move that. 10:03.590 --> 10:05.340 First of all just to cross. 10:05.360 --> 10:12.620 So it's roughly in the right place and I'm going to have to lift it up on the z axis itself until it's 10:12.620 --> 10:14.300 just coming through the ground. 10:14.300 --> 10:18.390 Let's switch Becca over to material mode and have a closer look at it. 10:18.420 --> 10:20.450 Of course I could go in in detail things. 10:20.510 --> 10:27.060 Now importantly if I'm viewing it from the camera so let's just go to the camera view itself. 10:27.080 --> 10:31.210 Well if that's the camera view the trees not even in the scene so we're going to have to adjust things 10:31.570 --> 10:33.710 so that everything's in the scene itself. 10:33.710 --> 10:36.280 So let's go ahead and add the rabbits. 10:37.250 --> 10:38.230 Excellent. 10:38.240 --> 10:45.080 I seem to have a tree layer here is that my Bush whereas my bush situated in this scenes that's situated 10:45.080 --> 10:46.110 about there. 10:46.220 --> 10:49.100 So let's go ahead and move the camera around now. 10:49.580 --> 10:52.250 Lock for camera to view and just rotates. 10:52.310 --> 10:54.540 Well it's getting a bit busy. 10:54.600 --> 10:57.670 Give myself a bit more space as well to see what's going on. 10:59.930 --> 11:01.460 Pull that up. 11:04.020 --> 11:07.160 Now this is all artistic licence at this point. 11:07.160 --> 11:10.980 You can go through as many iterations as you like. 11:10.980 --> 11:14.390 I quite like that for you. 11:14.400 --> 11:15.810 There I think so. 11:15.830 --> 11:20.520 I've done a test that really quickly got a low sample rate. 11:20.520 --> 11:21.060 That's good. 11:21.060 --> 11:25.890 Let's just render that out and see how it looks now I've got all my layers turned on yet either and 11:25.890 --> 11:30.690 I don't need to only see what the whole thing looks like right at this very moment. 11:30.720 --> 11:33.310 I just need to look at the general composition. 11:33.900 --> 11:39.090 Well looking at it quite like this tree to be a bit bigger actually and I'm going to try to scaling 11:39.090 --> 11:41.220 it up because I can't see the top half. 11:41.220 --> 11:43.940 It doesn't really matter what it does to the top half. 11:43.980 --> 11:50.850 In this particular case let's hop back into the 3D view and select our tree which is still there and 11:50.850 --> 11:52.800 just scale it up. 11:54.800 --> 11:56.500 And it's looking better. 11:56.640 --> 11:58.340 I'm going to bring that down. 11:59.900 --> 12:01.540 Back into the ground. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.710 Tell that little bit on the left goes in as well. 12:04.880 --> 12:07.690 Well I'm going to leave for up here probably at the scene. 12:07.700 --> 12:08.070 Right. 12:08.090 --> 12:11.150 That's looking a bit better in the trees more prominent in the scene. 12:11.150 --> 12:15.260 I'm going to render it again and going through this constant iteration cycle What's it going to look 12:15.260 --> 12:15.440 like. 12:15.440 --> 12:16.880 What's it going to look like. 12:16.910 --> 12:18.410 That's very important. 12:18.410 --> 12:20.790 And keeping those samples low. 12:21.230 --> 12:21.840 Okay. 12:21.920 --> 12:25.070 So it looks like the roots going to the ground. 12:25.110 --> 12:33.040 I'm going to go into my model now and just edit it in and bring this actually down into the ground. 12:33.060 --> 12:38.900 So I'm going to let you grab the virtex on the end make sure in proportional editing mode and pull it 12:38.900 --> 12:41.490 down until it goes into the ground. 12:41.540 --> 12:45.600 Going to make that just a little small or so arches up. 12:46.010 --> 12:47.100 Excellent. 12:47.340 --> 12:48.500 I am liking that. 12:48.500 --> 12:56.420 Now let's go ahead and hop into object mode and scale the tree up again ever so slightly. 12:56.690 --> 12:57.100 Right. 12:57.110 --> 12:57.660 Brilliant. 12:57.830 --> 13:01.590 Let's see now how this looks with the other layers. 13:01.610 --> 13:02.990 All turned on. 13:03.220 --> 13:07.120 So every layer turned on I can see down at the bottom and on the tool shelf as well. 13:07.250 --> 13:10.010 And the layer management Everything's turned on. 13:10.280 --> 13:15.920 Let's do a very quick render and see how that looks now because this has got all of the extra grass 13:15.920 --> 13:16.460 in it. 13:16.520 --> 13:19.820 It is likely to take significantly longer. 13:20.120 --> 13:24.030 No it doesn't have all the other grass in it why doesn't have all the grass and it's probably cause 13:24.050 --> 13:27.070 the particle systems are turned off at the moment. 13:27.140 --> 13:31.940 So the particle systems are part of the ground so I need to find my ground plane. 13:31.940 --> 13:33.020 There it is. 13:33.050 --> 13:35.120 I'm going to go for particle systems. 13:35.120 --> 13:37.530 And here we are they're actually turned off at the moment. 13:37.670 --> 13:43.370 So I'm going to turn them all on in the rendered view which is this camera and go and render that only 13:43.370 --> 13:46.950 at five samples again because I want to see what it's coming together like. 13:48.790 --> 13:53.620 Now we can see there straightaway it's taking significantly longer because there's far more detail in 13:53.620 --> 13:56.580 the scene that blender needs to calculate. 13:56.590 --> 14:00.120 However underneath this run out now and see how it looks. 14:00.230 --> 14:07.060 And remember this is only five samples it looks like it's going to take approximately three or four 14:07.060 --> 14:09.640 minutes to do so are join you again. 14:09.700 --> 14:11.850 And fast forward to when it's done. 14:14.110 --> 14:16.840 Wow okay so this is looking really good. 14:16.840 --> 14:20.030 I'm happy with its current arrangements. 14:20.050 --> 14:26.140 I could critique a few things in here but notice now that the grass is in place one of the great things 14:26.140 --> 14:30.970 about the grass is it's covering up the base of the tree a little more which is great because it just 14:30.970 --> 14:34.400 covers up the little bits of detail that we haven't added. 14:34.480 --> 14:35.200 That's really good. 14:35.200 --> 14:41.200 I'm going to leave this now rendering a higher definition higher sample rate just to get a bit of a 14:41.200 --> 14:42.450 clearer image. 14:42.460 --> 14:44.320 How did you guys get on. 14:44.540 --> 14:49.840 I'm really looking forward to seeing what you have come up with how you've placed your tree what tree 14:49.840 --> 14:50.940 did you go for. 14:50.950 --> 14:52.400 What colour is rabbit etc. 14:52.400 --> 14:56.360 I am really looking forward to seeing these so make sure you share them in the discussions. 14:56.410 --> 14:59.600 And as always I will see you in the next lecture.