3d art

Environment
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J
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H Prepare a fake distribution
object and set its properties
to ‘Not renderable’
I Painting the proxies, check
the Bounding Box display
mode to obtain more FPS
in the viewport
J Create some additional
plants to make the scene
more complex
2 hours
render time
Resolution:
4,050 x 2,880
Ivy Generator
Ivy Generator is a simple tool
that can be used in many
ways. We chose this plug-in
as it is very efficient: it allows
you to very quickly and
easily generate ivy, and also
gives control over physics,
like gravity or adhesion. One
of the top features is the realtime
preview when ‘growing’
the ivy. It’s also possible to
adjust the level of detail to fit
with your composition. Use
this plug-in to create groundcover
or all manner of
natural environments.
08 Branches and their distribution
Using the great GuruWare plug-in Ivy Generator, we will
now create the branches. In the scene we have some cables
in the courtyard that the branches can follow. This might not
be enough though to cover the whole sky, so we will create a
fake distribution object. To do so, use the circle from the
Splines rollout and convert it to Editable Poly. Place the ivy
seed and use the provided settings. Repeat this action a few
times until the density is thick enough. Place some branches
on the ground and columns too. Remember to uncheck the
leaf option in the ivy settings H.
09 Establish the scene
At this point all plants are ready to spread in the scene. Use
the V-Ray mesh export option and create proxies from the
predefined groups from Step 7. Once again, we will use
Advanced Painter. Run the script and choose the flower
proxies. Select the Instance cloning method and the
distribution object from Step 8. Paint the flowers; tweak the
rotation, position and scale in the Advanced Painter settings.
Once your camera is set up in the scene, add some more
groups to areas where they will be well exposed I.
10 Additional details
We will now add some extra flowers to make the scene
more complex. We can use the geometry from Step 5.
Change the shoots into stalks and add small leaves before,
once again, tweaking the pivots to previous settings. In this
scene, we’ve created a noisy terrain with the Push/Pull tool
from Editable Poly rollout. Using Advanced Painter with the
terrain as the distribution object, multiply the flowers in the
lower areas. This way you can achieve some ‘flower carpets’,
which should attract the attention of the viewer. J
Using the Editable Poly modelling technique
combined with the Advanced Painter script, it is
possible to create very different types of plants… to
build up your own collection of vegetation
Applying the techniques
to other models
Using the Editable Poly modelling technique combined with
the Advanced Painter script, it is possible to create very
different types of plants. In this tutorial, we reveal the
creation process of the Wisteria floribunda. The presented
scene also contains a very specific moss terrain with
production steps that were very similar. Once you
understand how the script
works, you are able to use it
in many ways to build up
your own personal collection
of vegetation.
For the moss creation, we
started with a single blade of
moss. Once again, using
many reference pictures, we
were able to create the
specific species of moss.
The single blade with a
properly adjusted pivot was
multiplied over a hemisphere
object. After the textures
were applied, all
components were attached
into one object with a new
adjusted pivot and exported
using the V-Ray mesh
option. The Advanced
Painter script was used again
to populate the new plant
across the terrain.
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