All language subtitles for 04-Creating our ivy Part2

Okay.

So let's go ahead and continue with the IV now that we have all of our

Branch branches in place.

Now, comes the tricky part, which is going to be our leaves.

So the reason that the leaves are little bit tricky, is because it's

about the directions and everything.

So, as you can see over here, they are all facing forward and they are

kind like pointing downwards.

So that's what we can like, want to get, but then we still want to get

some variation in it.

And of course, we cannot do by hand.

It needs to be completely generated because there are so many of them.

Now we want to get started by creating a new material.

So if we go up here to the plus minus sign new, click on it and press

renamed and just call this IV on the score.

Leaves over here and then we can just press.

Ok.

So we need to go out and we need to set up our textures because our

taxes will XE dictate.

Also the mesh of a leaves.

So if we go to textures we are had some textured calm IV 0 1.

These are the ones that we used.

So I can go ahead and I can go to drag my base color or my Albedo into

Cola.

My mask is opacity normal into normal.

And I guess if you want you can also use your translucency into the

subsurface, but it doesn't really matter.

This is not so much about it, then during let's do it subsurface.

Like 0.2., There we go.

This is not so much about handling.

It is just about being able to preview things.

Now a few quite important things.

First of all, just turn on two-sided over here.

So that we can see it on both sides here.

You can see the over here.

And now what we're going to do is we are going to create our Leaf

meshes to do this.

You want to go to cut outs and meshes and then want to go out and you

want to plot press edit over here.

And now what you can see is a few things.

So oops.

You can edit.

If you click away from this window.

It will go away.

So that makes it sound a little bit annoying.

So, over here, you can see that we have a plane and then over here, we

have also, this orange thing.

So the plane is our geometry.

This orange thing over here is basically your pivot point Direction.

So the first thing that you would probably want to do, is you want to

go ahead and you want to decide, which leave you want to turn into

geometry.

We are going to turn this one.

This one, this one, and this one into actual geometry.

I'm going to set my pivot Points at the very tip.

Over here.

And then what I want to do is I want to change my angle up here until

my Pivot Point, until the orange line is roughly going into the

direction of a leaf.

Now, it is super easy.

So to create a sleeve for want to basically click on the head Point,

click and drag over here.

And you want to do that with all of them.

Now that can be points like over here where I need more points in

order to create my leaf.

This is super simple.

All we need to do is just click in empty space over here or well,

click on the edge and then you can add some extra points and you just

want to try and use as little points as possible.

So I'm going to go for something like this, and now you can see that

it is in casing, our Leaf over here, and then it simply has like this

Orange Point.

Now, do not click away yet few things.

I want to show you, you can go up here.

And if you want to remove points, you can click over here on remove

points and you can simply paint them away like that.

And this one is reset or clear.

The point, which I'm not going to press here.

Let me just place the back.

So yeah, just so, you know, so that you can remove them or not.

Also, you can turn on and off the show opacity, and also the show

color, so that you can see everything.

Now.

What we're going to do is we are going to pass this little arrow

button, and we can assign our Leaf over.

Now you have different LEDs.

However, I personally like to do the elodie's using Unreal because in

realizing can generate it.

Since we also need to do a little bit of work inside of Maya on these

meshes before, they are ready for in real.

So what I tend to do is I tend to just go ahead and just throw this

into my high over here.

If you want, you can just throw it in all of them doesn't really

matter.

And once that is done, you can click away and now you can see that you

have your Leaf here, done.

Now if you want to add multiple leaves, which we want to do.

You can simply press the up button and we had three, no, wait.

We got form that, my belief.

So now having these four, we can just press edit on the second one and

we can basically do the same thing.

So you just basically grab

And Ivy point over here.

Like that and then we can also cut the Pivot Point.

Technically, the order in which you do.

It doesn't really matter, but you basically said it down, then your

artist.

Another thing that I did want to show you is that if needed you can

add desolation.

This is great.

If you want to bend around your leaves.

Now, I might want to give like a tiny bit of desolation like this.

So only like one over here and I'm just doing this so that I could

like, do a little bit of bending.

It will give me slightly higher quality.

It does mean a lot more geometry because even though it does not seem

like a lot more geometry here because if we have 1000 leaves it will

become a lot.

So be careful.

Don't do too much.

You can also go in here.

Yeah, I do it.

Like for this one also and I'd like to just add them to all three but

yeah, just don't do it.

Don't overdo it.

Because then it is no longer a game resolution mesh.

So we are after this, we are going to do a lot of effort to optimize

it so you not want to have that effort wasted because of some Leaf

geometry.

But anyway, here we go.

So let's do this one and give it like one extra geometry point or

tessellation point over here.

And then finally we have one more

Which is the one over here.

Here, see now.

I accidentally placed at Point 1 but it doesn't really matter because

the good thing about in pain in speedtree, is that these points.

They are quite flexible here.

See that the geometry is quite flexible in how you use it.

So even if you place, like an extra point,

It doesn't really matter because you can often use reuse it and now

she can remove it.

And one tessellation point.

Come on, there we go.

Okay, so I'll leaves are done and our material is now done.

Now.

What we can do is we can actually start applying it to 3D.

So let's go ahead and just make this a bit smaller and for this it

takes a little bit of playing around so just be prepared for that.

Let's go over here into our barges.

We go right.

Click add geometry to select it and we can do leaves and alternating.

So these are new but they are quite

Cool.

Normally, you would use this this one actually.

Yeah, let's use this one.

These are new.

I want to try them out, but I should not be trying those out inside of

its Doyle.

So, over here, we now have like a bunch of leaves.

They are really, really large.

So but that's this no problem.

What I can do now is, I can choose my generation and I feel like

proportional would be interesting.

And now, there are a few specific settings that make this workflow

stand out from the rest that I want to show you now.

First of all, let's go ahead and go into skin.

And then over here, it will ask you for your material in your mesh.

Now.

You want to set your material to ivy leaves over here.

Now, you can see that the leaves are technically working.

But what I like to do is I like to set my mesh to over here like the

first one and then I just press the + sign.

A few more times.

I believe leaves, second one, ivy leaves, 31 and ivy leaves 41.

So now they are randomly using these different types of leaves over

here.

I think I'm

Set my subsurface to see how because in this lighting.

It doesn't really work.

Well over here like that.

And also what you can do is with your light, you can.

Oh God, I forgot how

To be honest, I kind of forgot how to like old ate my light.

I believe this in here somewhere.

Let me just quickly, check this out.

I found it was holding the V key and then you can click and then you

can rotate your lights around.

So I kind of forgot about that.

Okay, so we have a leaves now.

They are way too big.

They are intersecting.

They are not looking good right now, but that is no problem because

that's what we're going to work on.

First of all, let's go ahead and let's just set the overall size using

our size scalar down to, like roughly the size that you want.

Your final leaves to be, which I think, I think this is quite nice if

you want to make your lives more.

To most it can be useful to just make them like slightly bigger than

they would be in real life.

You often see this done.

I Believe In The Last of Us.

It is often done also or in charted, those kind of games where they

make them a little bit bigger, then they would be alive but in turn

they do look a little bit nicer and also just in general they fit a

little bit better and there are more optimized so I'm going to go for

round 0.45 over here.

Now, what you're going to do is you are basically going to go ahead.

And first of all, work on the actual Direction.

Because right now they are a little bit all over the place.

So if we go ahead and go into our skin over here, so that is all fine.

Overhead down here.

We have our folding curl and twist.

This one really comes into play with just leaves.

The folding will basically, give us a little bit of a fault, which is

nice, because if we look over here, you can see that, there's like,

always a little bit of a fold going on on our IV.

And I think it isn't like

A see almost every single Ivy has this kind of folding.

So we want to set our fault into the plus over here, which should give

us on most of them.

You see like a nice little fold like that.

The curling will basically give you like a little bit of like rotation

almost.

So that's pretty good to maybe set into the - a little bit and then

the twisting you get also give it like a little bit of just a random

twisting over here just to add a little bit more variation.

Now, we have our vertex and our vertex is basically, like some random

noise.

I would call it over here.

So it's similar to like the noise, but it doesn't often work very

well.

Unless you have, like, very large amount of geometry.

So that's all looking good.

So, we got that one orientation over here.

So, in our orientation, we have the aligned so that one allows us to

often are very like, push it down a little bit and the fold, I don't

care.

But the facing

I do care about she intermediate you can also play around.

You like your different settings over here and it just takes a second

to find exactly the setting that you want.

So let's do a global over here like that.

And now what I'm going to do is over here.

You also have your up, right?

And out rotation or as you can see.

So that basically allows us to watch can push them down.

But I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and use a force

in this case and

We actually have a direction over here.

So we should be able to use that for go to forces.

Let's turn on Direction and let's set this quite strongly to like 12

or something and then you can see what it does.

Is it kind of like bushes the leaves, all down over here.

Now having them all face me is a little bit tricky because the reason

why it is tricky is because they are rotating around our actual

branches.

So there is no Direction.

Them to face if they are placed at the back of the branches.

Now, it doesn't matter too much because this is like hanging IV, so

you can kind of see it from outside.

So what I would do is yes, you can play around with like orientation

here.

You can see like the facing and then it like twice to rotate, but you

can see that it does not do a super good job.

I'm just going to go in to generate and I'm going to boost up my

numbers quite a bit, just to see how that looks.

Okay, over here.

So the one thing that I noticed that we might want to

Go ahead and go for like a little bit more like dancer.

Ivy over you but that's something that we can just do by adding more

botches.

The first thing I want to do and this is where it is a really cool

technique.

Right now, all of these Ivy piece over here.

They are intersecting and I don't want that.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to Collision up here and

I'm going to set this to a high quality.

And when you do that, what that will do is it will basically remove

any leaves that are intersecting.

Now, as you can imagine, because a lot of leaf or intersecting.

We now have way less leaves, but that is okay, because now

Now if we just go ahead and we just want to basically boost up the

numbers a lot.

So let's go to like 60 for example, and then if we leave it off you

can see that we aren't even more.

So we just want to M really like you're like 180 or sometimes you just

need to go like 200 or something like that.

So that will already apply a lot of leaves.

So that's probably fine.

And then if we go back to our branches,

And you know branches first of all, I feel like if I go to generate

that, I want to set my first a little bit higher over here C and then

basically you want to just go ahead and increase the number of watches

and then this way you can basically art even more.

Here, C, IV like that.

So that's all looking pretty, cool.

I kind of want to see what planer does if I go into my forces and go

to planar.

Instead working that is kind like stops growing.

Not too much like a little bit like it does try to stop growing.

The leaves to go inside of the plane.

But let's see.

Let's say that we have something like this.

Now, let's go ahead and just fix a little bit, a few problems.

Let's go into our little bunches.

Let's get started by setting the first.

A little bit lower because else they are trying to keep up too much to

the top.

Let's try 00.

No, I want to go like a little bit higher.

There we go.

Just to let me like remove those next proportional editing 21.

Let's try 15.

Here we go.

So that's like a little bit less.

I know that sticking to the ground but that's no problem.

So, over here, as you can see, we now have our branches like this and

this also gives us the opportunity to still go in here.

And for example, click on this one, and if I go to note, I should be

able to still change the length.

It might be a little bit slow.

If you do not have powerful computer, but like this, you can see that

I am able to control.

The lungs and then we get like a nice looking Ivy like this.

Okay.

So let's go back to generator.

So we got those done these punches that you can see over here.

Don't worry about it too much about that thickness.

You can set the thickness now, but we are going to replace those with

planes.

So, let's see how it looks if we like make it a little bit thicker

because the thickness does sort of response to the rest.

So we got these ones and feel like maybe I want to make my bar.

Just here in the last.

It's maybe like push it a little bit further in over here.

Stat.

We have like quite an interesting looking Ivy and that's basically the

goal of this.

You just want to get like a nice and interesting looking IV.

That also looks good when it's like, I'm like hanging off something or

like hanging against the wall.

Now, as I said before, right now, it is hanging against the wall.

You can be careful what you can play around a little bit.

If you go to your forces and set like the cube Collision,

So right now it is set to 18.

If I said to like 10 or maybe like five, you see, we are able to mess

up and make them more messy.

Let's do to see.

So you are able to make your IV a little bit more messy, and I'm going

to go maybe like three.

I want I want to be careful because this definitely does not always

look very good that it has like these bands.

And that makes me want to like force it down.

So let's click on this one over here.

See if I can maybe

Oh, hello.

Didn't mean to do that.

Text that neat.

I feel like that's a bug.

Yeah, that's that.

Feels like a bug or maybe like some kind of like a limitation because

it's not allowing me to actually rotate it.

The way that I want to is there.

There used to be also, like, rotations up here.

But I guess that they change.

Here we go.

We can do kinda like, rotation over here, but we are actually changing

the radius, I believe.

So it's technically another rotation.

But okay.

So basically that's looking pretty good.

I think that I'm

Quite happy with this.

And now if you would hide your trunk and the big part is over here,

just by pressing H.

You can see that this is now your IV.

So you can see that.

Yes, the IV is technically not connected at the top.

But this is where you would often have it sitting inside of a wall, or

what you can do is you can do what we did before, where if you have

your Cube.

You can also run a few bunches this direction so kind like over it.

But often, what I found is that in the way that we are going to use

these

A species, this is more than enough and we don't need to have also on

top like this big punches, but you can have them if you want.

Like these bigger ones you can and carefully, Maybe.

Set the radius lower and just need to make sure that this is what I

mean like it.

If I said, hey you should lower.

It is actually quite bad because it is trying to compensate with the

amount of punches that we have.

So anyway, this is done.

Let's go ahead and save our scene over here.

So that's looking pretty good here here C.

So they are not all pointing down.

So they all have like a little bit of like an Direction.

So now what we're going to do is we are going to basically replace

these we'll eat in punches with

With planes.

And let's go to be a little bit of a tricky one.

So it involves a little bit of baking down which we will go for a

little bit later on also, but it should not be too difficult.

Basically, what we want to do is we want to go ahead and go into Maya

and I'm can delete this one.

We want to create a custom branch, which is going to be just like a

plane.

So it is if we just create a simple plane like this.

Gets rid of all of your segments and displaying, you basically want to

go out and rotate it, 90 degrees, and let's go in here.

You want to move it so that it is pretty much on the pivot point over

here, and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to scale this in.

So it needs to be really thin as thin as you want your punches to be.

And I want to have my branches be quite thin like this over here.

Now, the reason why this is a little bit tricky, is because I actually

want to go ahead and I want to add like some height information in

here so that they do look a little bit like branches.

Now we can do this using baking or we can do this, using substances

einar.

The problem is, let me just have a think, am I going to use substances

einar a doll because I don't want to use substance designer for one

single thing in this entire tutorial.

Yes, I am going to substance designer.

So I'm going to do this in substance designer.

So I've been saying that word a lot.

So, we got over here this leave, that's fine.

Just make sure that in your UV editor that this plane is still

covering the entire area like this even though it is very thin.

We want to have that next.

What we're going to do is we are going to select these edges.

That we are going to add a few segments over here, and these segments

control.

Also once again, how high Poli your

Pieces are going to be, so I'm going to go these do not need to be

very high.

I think 10 should be more than enough over here.

And once we have this little leaf, remember that inside of speedtree,

the pivot point will be at the very bottom.

So that's why we want to set this on like the ends.

And then what we can do is you can go file and do like an export

selection and we are going to call this one.

Let's go up here, one up and let's call this.

Ivy on the score.

Tin and the score brunch.

And Export.

Okay, so we got that one done.

And now if we go ahead and if we go into Speed 3 first and then we

will do the rest later on.

We can create already a new material that we will call.

Bark over here.

And in this material, we can go ahead and make sure that it is

two-sided and start by.

I'm just navigating to it, applying our bark textures, which is this

one.

I'm normal and our happiness, which in this case would be like a gloss

over here.

She want, you can even add your buck.

If you want to have like a hyperbola IV.

This would pretty much already.

Be like your hypo div over here.

But of course, you see that is looking pretty cool already.

But of course, we are going to go for game, ready.

So, we have a balk.

Now, if we go ahead and go to our little branches.

This is basically trick that you can do in the latest versions of

speedtree, which you will go.

First of all, let's save our scene.

Now down here, we can convert our in our skin tab.

We can go further to type from polygons to spline only.

This means that it will read only the splines that we have generated

and then we are free to Art whatever we want on top of this.

And the way that we are going to do this is we are going to right

click

We add geometry to select it and add a mesh over here.

You can see that.

It's yes, he does a spline.

I don't owe you a little because sorry, I got confused by name.

It does slide into the spline.

Still has the leaves.

So, the leaves are following the spline, which means that they will

stay the same and then we have a mesh over here.

Of course.

Right now.

It is Cubes, but you might have guessed it if we go ahead and we can

go to our bark over here.

Oh, no.

Sorry.

Go to our mesh over here because this is a custom mesh.

And then in here, we want to basically apply a mesh.

Now, you can do it by pressing the plus over here, or you can go to

file.

And you can, of course, go in here and art or import and mesh.

I'm just going to use the plus over here, and I'm going to navigate

one second to my other screen.

Like this.

And always we can actually just go one back over here.

So we want to open up this one and if we just go down here we have,

I've eaten behind sheet is now located and we just want to make sure

that it has the same direction as our Leaf.

So we want to go set the orientation to Y up left hand that I believe.

On our way.

It's why up?

Yeah.

Why I'm left-handed and then flip it in.

I don't know.

Exact.

I want to have a flat but I forgot.

Which direction?

I need to flip it in?

Come on.

She's not working.

Also.

I'm just going to rotate it if it's not working.

Okay, so it is not working.

In that case.

I'm just going to go in Maya and I'm just going to do like a quick 90

degree rotation.

Over here.

Normally you can just set the flipping but I don't know why this time.

It's sides not to work.

So you can just reacts put it on the same file.

Go in here and just press the little Helo button and there we go.

So that's now should work totally fine.

And now all that we will need to do is we just need to quickly, grab

the IV, bunch.

I keep forgetting that.

Sorry.

I've been forgetting this for years.

Go to your back, go to the cutout meshes select your IV Branch because

you can only do it via a material.

And now, click and drag it on here.

And then what you can see is over here, we have our

Bunch of it a little bit too thick.

Now.

I believe that we are able to do some scaling in here.

But if we go to our mesh, we should be able to do some kind of scaling

in here but use actual size, but I don't know if it is on the X and Y

scaling.

Let's yeah, here it's on the X&Y scaling.

So I will need to go ahead and I will probably need to do this

manually, but as you can see, you can kind of like see the Logics of

it.

So we just need to go in.

Over U Visa also a little bit warm, but that can be just like this

tasting UV over here.

So let's go ahead and let's make it.

Here on 2000.

I'm going to make it a little bit thinner and I'm going to show make

it shorter.

So I'm just blending over here.

So it takes a little bit of thinking.

I'm just going to edit my Pivot inside of Maya by Personnel, a pivot

in our tool settings.

Turn on snapping two points.

And I'm going to snap it to the below point and I was going to make it

a little bit shorter, which is on the y-axis, I believe.

Yes, on the y-axis is 0.5 or no.

Sorry x axis.

There we go.

And I was going to make it a lot thinner.

So on the Z axis, let's do zero point.

0.1.

Yeah, I think 0.1 should be enough and now let's try and do another

export again.

So we basically just need to kind like get it into the right location

over here.

So let's go into our meshes and reload.

So, is that?

Fixing it.

No, it is not.

I think I have feeling what it is doing.

Is it is it is over Whiting?

Our ticket is over here.

So if you go down over here to defamation, you should be able to also

set the radio scale here.

So that will control this, like the thickness.

So that's one is fine.

Now for our UVS.

We are running.

Wow, we are running way out of time.

So what we'll be doing in the next chapter is we will go ahead and we

will focus.

First of all on just fixing iuvs, which should be a very easy fix.

That's no problem.

The second thing that we're going to do is I want to

Try and see if I can also like get like some scooping or like some

thickness, variation.

Just like we had before, this one might be a little bit trickier, but

it might be just like a case out.

Let me just quickly try because I've never tried this before, in disk,

in this way over here, but it might just be iarc.

So, that's Works.

Totally fine.

So, like this, we can basically have like dinner ends so that they

basically go from thick to thin so you can just set it by simply

clicking on here.

To adding points in between your mesh, and then you can just move

these points.

So it is the little calf next to it.

You will get used to using these graphs.

So that's one.

So, okay.

Next up, would be to fix our UVS.

And then I will also show you how to, of course, just properly, set

this up inside of Unreal Engine in the