1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,790 Hello, 2 00:00:00,790 --> 00:00:01,210 everybody. 3 00:00:01,210 --> 00:00:03,780 And welcome to a new section in this section. 4 00:00:03,780 --> 00:00:09,150 We're going to be creating a tree in Blender 2.8 will be using an add on called the sapling 5 00:00:09,150 --> 00:00:09,590 and on, 6 00:00:09,590 --> 00:00:15,030 and we will start creating the tree with some different settings and getting it looking 7 00:00:15,030 --> 00:00:15,590 just right, 8 00:00:15,590 --> 00:00:17,700 and then we'll move on to the material, 9 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:18,510 the leaves, 10 00:00:18,510 --> 00:00:19,910 and then we'll render it out. 11 00:00:19,910 --> 00:00:22,970 The first thing that will do in this video, 12 00:00:22,970 --> 00:00:23,180 though, 13 00:00:23,180 --> 00:00:24,460 is enable that add on, 14 00:00:24,460 --> 00:00:29,400 so go up to edit down to preferences and then in the search bar underneath the add ons. 15 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,400 You're just going to type in the word sapling, 16 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,490 and you should see a sampling. 17 00:00:33,490 --> 00:00:34,470 Add on right there. 18 00:00:34,470 --> 00:00:36,260 Go ahead and check that box, 19 00:00:36,260 --> 00:00:37,450 and then you're good to go. 20 00:00:37,450 --> 00:00:38,230 Next, 21 00:00:38,230 --> 00:00:42,340 go ahead and delete this cube and then per shift a and underneath curb. 22 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:45,650 You should see a sapling tree generation out on right there. 23 00:00:45,650 --> 00:00:47,060 If you click on this, 24 00:00:47,060 --> 00:00:49,550 you'll see a tree pop into your scene, 25 00:00:49,550 --> 00:00:51,840 then over on the left. 26 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:52,100 Here, 27 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:56,580 you'll notice that this loads up with a bunch of different settings and values that weaken 28 00:00:56,580 --> 00:01:00,680 tweet to get our tree looking just right keep in mind, 29 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:00,880 though, 30 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,970 If you do anything like for example, 31 00:01:02,970 --> 00:01:05,690 if you select a lamp and you try to go back to those settings, 32 00:01:05,690 --> 00:01:08,520 they will disappear and he won't be able to change your treat. 33 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,190 So make sure before you do anything else in your scene is you get your tree settings 34 00:01:13,190 --> 00:01:13,610 correct, 35 00:01:13,610 --> 00:01:14,580 and then you move on. 36 00:01:14,580 --> 00:01:21,630 So the first settings right here are the geometry settings and this 1st 1 is the bevel. 37 00:01:21,630 --> 00:01:24,300 This controls if you want bevel in your scene. 38 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:25,260 So if I turn that off, 39 00:01:25,260 --> 00:01:29,710 you can see that the entire tree just becomes lines and curves. 40 00:01:29,710 --> 00:01:30,720 If I turn it back on, 41 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,130 it has a three d effect. 42 00:01:32,130 --> 00:01:35,250 You can change the bevel resolution if you want to. 43 00:01:35,250 --> 00:01:37,560 I'm actually going to go up to two right there, 44 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,050 and I'll leave this one at four. 45 00:01:39,050 --> 00:01:42,990 You want to be careful with this value because if you add a lot of branches, 46 00:01:42,990 --> 00:01:45,050 this will really slow down your computer. 47 00:01:45,050 --> 00:01:46,700 Then under meet the shape, 48 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:49,980 you have a couple different presets for the different shapes that you want. 49 00:01:49,980 --> 00:01:51,450 If you want a spherical shape, 50 00:01:51,450 --> 00:01:52,130 you can change that. 51 00:01:52,130 --> 00:01:53,520 They're the one that will be using, 52 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:53,740 though, 53 00:01:53,740 --> 00:01:54,990 is the 10 flame. 54 00:01:54,990 --> 00:01:58,880 So go ahead and select that one underneath that we have this value here. 55 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,230 And if you turn this down, 56 00:02:00,230 --> 00:02:02,580 the branches will go closer to the bottom. 57 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:03,590 If you turn it up, 58 00:02:03,590 --> 00:02:04,850 the branches will go higher. 59 00:02:04,850 --> 00:02:05,860 And so on. 60 00:02:05,860 --> 00:02:06,710 The value, 61 00:02:06,710 --> 00:02:09,230 though at 1.5 is actually perfect. 62 00:02:09,230 --> 00:02:10,600 So I'll leave it as it is. 63 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,800 The branch rings controls How many rings are on your branches? 64 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,300 And since we don't have a ton of branches in the scene, 65 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:20,420 we don't really see this doing too much the random seed. 66 00:02:20,420 --> 00:02:22,330 This will just give a random variation, 67 00:02:22,330 --> 00:02:26,370 and sometimes you can get lucky and find a cool preset. 68 00:02:26,370 --> 00:02:28,220 We're gonna leave it at zero, 69 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:28,340 though, 70 00:02:28,340 --> 00:02:29,750 because I want to do it myself. 71 00:02:29,750 --> 00:02:31,870 The scale of this, 72 00:02:31,870 --> 00:02:35,470 we're gonna be setting this to a value of six to bring that up just slightly. 73 00:02:35,470 --> 00:02:39,020 Also underneath here you have a bunch of different presets as well, 74 00:02:39,020 --> 00:02:43,740 and the one that will be playing with is the small able to go ahead and select that one, 75 00:02:43,740 --> 00:02:46,400 and we can see those settings change. 76 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,090 I'm gonna set this back to six. 77 00:02:48,090 --> 00:02:48,850 Okay, 78 00:02:48,850 --> 00:02:51,090 Now that we're done with the geometry, 79 00:02:51,090 --> 00:02:53,260 we can go ahead and move onto the next one, 80 00:02:53,260 --> 00:02:54,720 which is the brands radius. 81 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,400 And this controls how thick the branches are and how big the trunk is. 82 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,420 If I turn up the ratio here, 83 00:03:01,420 --> 00:03:02,860 you can see what it's doing. 84 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:05,360 It's really making the branches a lot bigger. 85 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,750 I'm gonna leave it at a 10.2 the ratio scale. 86 00:03:09,750 --> 00:03:11,270 You can change this if you want to. 87 00:03:11,270 --> 00:03:16,280 This just controls how it basically does the same thing as a ratio except in a smaller 88 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:16,750 version. 89 00:03:16,750 --> 00:03:20,310 So you can see here it just changes of the size of the branches. 90 00:03:20,310 --> 00:03:25,120 You can go ahead and turn on closed tip and this will just make sure all of the branches 91 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,880 here have a closed off tip and there's no holes in the branches. 92 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,120 So make sure you do that if you want to, 93 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:32,530 you can change the roof layer, 94 00:03:32,530 --> 00:03:34,910 and this will just make your trunk right here. 95 00:03:34,910 --> 00:03:35,690 Flare up. 96 00:03:35,690 --> 00:03:36,830 I'm gonna leave it at a one, 97 00:03:36,830 --> 00:03:36,960 though, 98 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,030 because I don't want that to happen next. 99 00:03:40,030 --> 00:03:41,840 Underneath the branch splitting, 100 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,570 we can change some of these values and this is where we get into the angle of the branches 101 00:03:46,570 --> 00:03:46,570 , 102 00:03:46,570 --> 00:03:50,170 how tall they are on big and where they're positioned on the tree. 103 00:03:50,170 --> 00:03:53,650 The first setting that we have is the levels in this controls. 104 00:03:53,650 --> 00:03:55,090 If I turn that up to three, 105 00:03:55,090 --> 00:03:58,550 you'll notice that the branches now have a lot more branches. 106 00:03:58,550 --> 00:04:02,790 So it's taking the number of levels and then just adding to it. 107 00:04:02,790 --> 00:04:04,930 So this trunk is the first level, 108 00:04:04,930 --> 00:04:07,630 and then these branches here is the second level. 109 00:04:07,630 --> 00:04:09,240 And then if we change it to three, 110 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,870 the branches will also have branches. 111 00:04:11,870 --> 00:04:15,450 This value is for how maney splits you have in your tree. 112 00:04:15,450 --> 00:04:16,580 Right now we have one. 113 00:04:16,580 --> 00:04:22,820 I'm gonna said that 20 and we can see it closes that up the trunk height. 114 00:04:22,820 --> 00:04:25,450 This controls where the branches are on your tree. 115 00:04:25,450 --> 00:04:26,650 I'm gonna leave it as it is, 116 00:04:26,650 --> 00:04:28,060 a hand that's a pretty good value. 117 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:32,530 And the split height controls where the split is on our tree, 118 00:04:32,530 --> 00:04:35,200 and I'm just gonna leave it at its default settings. 119 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:40,600 Here is where you can set how many branches you want in your scene. 120 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:41,600 And for this tree, 121 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,240 I'm going to go with a value of 60 branches. 122 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:44,930 Actually, 123 00:04:44,930 --> 00:04:46,380 let's go with 70. 124 00:04:46,380 --> 00:04:47,570 I think that would be a little bit better, 125 00:04:47,570 --> 00:04:48,900 so we'll set that to 70. 126 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:53,550 The split angle here just controls where the split is on your branches. 127 00:04:53,550 --> 00:04:54,350 As you can see, 128 00:04:54,350 --> 00:04:56,120 if I zoom in right here, 129 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,940 you'll notice if I turn this up, 130 00:04:57,940 --> 00:04:59,780 those branches spread further apart. 131 00:04:59,780 --> 00:05:00,950 If I bring him in closer, 132 00:05:00,950 --> 00:05:01,950 they become closer. 133 00:05:01,950 --> 00:05:04,740 I just like it as the default of 18. 134 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:05,850 I'll just leave it right there. 135 00:05:05,850 --> 00:05:08,400 You can move the branches around your tree if you want to. 136 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,900 And you might notice there's four different values here, 137 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,910 and these are for the levels up here. 138 00:05:13,910 --> 00:05:14,730 So you see, 139 00:05:14,730 --> 00:05:16,090 if I change the third level, 140 00:05:16,090 --> 00:05:17,150 nothing happens. 141 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:18,780 If we were going to set this to three, 142 00:05:18,780 --> 00:05:20,750 then those branches would be affected. 143 00:05:20,750 --> 00:05:25,860 So the only options that we have right now since there's only two levels are the first to 144 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:27,450 you can see this one doesn't do anything. 145 00:05:27,450 --> 00:05:28,620 This one does. 146 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:30,150 And this one does as well. 147 00:05:30,150 --> 00:05:32,400 Once we're done editing our tree, 148 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,160 I'm going to set the levels 23 But for announces, 149 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,210 we're changing the values. 150 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:37,880 I wanted to move a little smoother, 151 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,750 so I'm gonna leave it at two and will change that in just a little bit. 152 00:05:40,750 --> 00:05:44,070 The next one that will go to is the branch growth. 153 00:05:44,070 --> 00:05:48,220 And here is where you can set the size of the branches and the angle of them. 154 00:05:48,220 --> 00:05:51,320 And for this you can see if I drag this up, 155 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:56,390 you can see the angle of the first branch and hear those will grow if I want to, 156 00:05:56,390 --> 00:05:58,580 I'm gonna leave him at the default settings, 157 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:03,020 and the one value that I will change is the down angle right here. 158 00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:06,060 I'll just drag that up slightly and the curvature. 159 00:06:06,060 --> 00:06:10,750 I'm also going to drag this down so that the branches are angled up a little bit more. 160 00:06:10,750 --> 00:06:13,720 I'm liking how our tree is looking so far. 161 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,890 I might change the length of this first value to be about a 0.9, 162 00:06:18,890 --> 00:06:20,600 so it's just a little shorter, 163 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,600 and I think that looks pretty good. 164 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,270 Now that we've done that. 165 00:06:24,270 --> 00:06:26,510 Let's go ahead and switch back over to the branch, 166 00:06:26,510 --> 00:06:30,840 splitting and change the levels 23 And as you can see there, 167 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:34,450 we have a lot more branches in our scene and that is looking pretty good. 168 00:06:34,450 --> 00:06:36,940 You can change it to four if you want to. 169 00:06:36,940 --> 00:06:37,690 But keep in mind, 170 00:06:37,690 --> 00:06:39,520 it will slow down your rendered time, 171 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,790 and it will slow down when you're adding the material. 172 00:06:41,790 --> 00:06:43,470 Next, 173 00:06:43,470 --> 00:06:47,570 go over to the leaves and here is where we can add in the leaves. 174 00:06:47,570 --> 00:06:52,770 So what we'll do is we'll click on show leaves and then you can see all of our lives pop in 175 00:06:52,770 --> 00:06:53,440 our scene. 176 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,260 And the next thing that I'm gonna do is come over here changing from a hexagon over to a 177 00:06:58,260 --> 00:06:59,070 rectangle, 178 00:06:59,070 --> 00:07:01,140 And there we go. 179 00:07:01,140 --> 00:07:03,260 We can see what this is doing to our leaves. 180 00:07:03,260 --> 00:07:05,380 Now you might be wondering why we're doing this, 181 00:07:05,380 --> 00:07:08,210 and that is because we will be adding in a texture. 182 00:07:08,210 --> 00:07:13,480 And it's a lot easier to UV unwrap a rectangle than it is a hexagon. 183 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,240 So we're gonna switch it over to rectangle and for the number of leaves, 184 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,820 we're gonna be setting this value to 64. 185 00:07:20,820 --> 00:07:21,820 Once we do that, 186 00:07:21,820 --> 00:07:25,030 we can see that there are a lot more leaves in our scene. 187 00:07:25,030 --> 00:07:26,210 And you know what? 188 00:07:26,210 --> 00:07:31,170 What I'll do actually is go back to the branch splitting and I am going to change it up to 189 00:07:31,170 --> 00:07:32,930 a level of four. 190 00:07:32,930 --> 00:07:33,940 And there we go. 191 00:07:33,940 --> 00:07:35,810 We can see it looks a lot more dense, 192 00:07:35,810 --> 00:07:37,550 and I actually like that a little bit better. 193 00:07:37,550 --> 00:07:38,290 Okay, 194 00:07:38,290 --> 00:07:41,470 so now we're done messing with the branch settings. 195 00:07:41,470 --> 00:07:44,110 You can if you want to change the angle of the leaves. 196 00:07:44,110 --> 00:07:46,500 But I'm just gonna leave them at the default settings. 197 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:47,690 I think that looks pretty good. 198 00:07:47,690 --> 00:07:49,380 In the next video, 199 00:07:49,380 --> 00:07:52,290 we will start you be unwrapping and adding the materials.