Getting Started with Vue 9 - Forest Creation

Lesson 1
Customizing trees & plants

- Mixing vegetation materials between species
- Customizing vegetation in the plant editor
- Creating new solidgrowth plant species
- Adjusting hooking points

Lesson 2
Creating the landscape

- Customizing the terrain
- Editing materials
- Painting in a dirt path
- Export painted images
- Assigning slope presence on materials

Lesson 3
Ecosystems Layers | 1

- Adding plant species to the population list
- linking terrain painted alphas to ecosystem layer
- Using dynamic population
- Controlling size, presence, and density
- Shadow Maps
- Custom render settings

Lesson 4
Ecosystems Layers | 2

- Ecosystems layers
- Static populations
- Gamma controls
- Lighting models
- Adjusting the sun light

Lesson 5
Groundcover & Lighting

- Adding detail to standard terrains and converting to procedural
- Moving ecosystems to Null objects
- Importing images onto vegetation
- Creating various lighting situations
- Using Radiosity
- Understanding Aerial Perspective
- Adding Rocks

Lesson 6
Conclusion & Additional Techniques

- Final Render Notes
- Gaining more control over painted material maps
- Terrain Zone Extraction