All language subtitles for 03_03_basic_scene_setup

- [Zach] In this video we start preparing

the basic scene that we need

in order to get started

with creating our very first cubic world.

So I opened up the empty workspace scene

which we have talked about earlier.

You can also find it

down below in the project
files of this lesson.

And this file, as you can
see, has no objects in it.

It has nothing in the
outliner and no collections.

And also all the settings
over here are pretty much

at the default state.

And whenever you open up a preset file

I would highly recommend to save this

under a new name for your
new project immediately.

So we don't accidentally save
over the existing preset file.

Let's go to File-Save As

or press shift+control S
then the file browser opens.

And now over here

you can navigate to your specific volumes.

However, I'm here at the right place.

I want to save this in the scene folder

and then in this campfire
tutorial folder, and

with this button up here, you can also

create new folders if you like.

Let's call this campfire_01.

And I use a simple version
in here because every now

and then I want to save
this as new version

just to make sure

that I have a few backups
and don't lose anything.

When I try some crazy stuff in my scene

and you can easily change
the number by clicking

on this plus and minus
symbol or pressing plus and

minus on the numpad, and then
simply hit enter to save.

Now, before we add anything here

let's go to the scene collection.

Press C to add a new collection

or click on this button up here.

Let's call this environment

and inside the environment collection,

let's press C again.

This needs to be selected.

I call this ground.

And as you will see later
on, we will use a lot

of collections sometimes
even for just one object.

And this will speed up

the whole scene creation process a lot

because we can easily hide single objects

or full collections here.

I select the ground now

because now when I add the
cube center to the scene

this will be automatically added

to with this ground collection.

So when you add something,
select the specific collection

and then this will be added, but

of course you can move the objects

also around if you need to

by just dragging and dropping
them onto other collections.

Let's double click here
and call this ground.

In the 3D viewport with the
cube selected press alt-G.

And as you can see, this one
has the origin in the center.

That's why the cube is called cube center

and this should work fine for the ground.

Let's press N to open up the sidebar.

Let's change the size
of this cube to be 100

by 100 meters for X and Y.

And something like 0.5 for the height.

Now we have this ground plane
with a bit of thickness.

And as you know, from one
of the previous videos

if the scale is not set to 1:1:1

this can be a problem for modeling

and also for animation later on.

So let's select the cube

press control-A and apply the scale.

Now, this is back at 1:1:1

and you can also find this
under object-apply-scale.

Now let's quickly add the cube button

press Alt-G so it's back in the center.

And now you can see this is
sticking in the ground here

and not perfectly lying
on top of the ground.

And that's because, lets press num pad 1

to see it from the side

you can see the ground is a
bit above the Z axis here.

So let's select the ground
and then let's move it

down by negative 0.25,
because it has a thickness

of 0.5 and we need to move
it down the half of it.

And that's 0.25.

And now this cube here stands
perfectly on the ground.

And then every time we add something here

to the scene and press
Alt G to recenter this

it's perfectly sitting on the ground.

Let's move this new cube
out of this collection

just drag and drop it
onto the scene collection.

And let's color the ground
here, select the ground

go to the material settings.

And as you know, we
can change the material

over here to something more brownish.

There should be a desert environment

and let's call this material ground.

Then let's create a new collection.

Let's select scene collection press C.

Let's call this scene helpers.

Let's move it up here.

And for now let's also
move the cube bottom

zero zero one in here

move it a bit to the side.

And inside the scene helpers collection.

We will add all the objects
we need for creating our scene

which helps us measure
stuff and stuff like this

or control animations later
on, but won't be rendered

so we can turn off the
collection later on.

Let's leave it enabled for now

and let's drag and drop the
human male character in here.

Let's press Alt-G

to recenter this to the scene origin here

and this is just a default
human male character

In the final assets scene for this course

you will probably have a few
more objects than I have here.

And besides the male character

there are probably also a
female and children characters

which you can use as reference object.

Let's move this one here into the scene

helpers, let's call this human reference.

And when we start creating
the assets for our scene

we won't measure each and
every object we add, however

we use this human reference object to

scale our environment assets accordingly.

And by the way, now this
is just an instance object.

I can't select the armature.

However, if you want
to convert this simply

select the character, press control A

and click on make instance real.

And now, as you can see

I could pose the character
which we will learn more

about later.

However, for now the instance
is totally fine for me.

So and one last thing I want to set

up here is under the render
settings, ambient occlusion.

If I enable this, you can
see that here in this corners

this shadow will appear

which helps us a bit better to understand

if an object is actually
standing on the ground or not.

And I find this quite
helpful when creating stuff.

One little note here, when
I moved my view around

you can see this weird ghosting
effect around the objects

which is caused by the
viewport de-noising.

If I disable this, you
can see this disappears.

And this is also what I
would recommend when we

create the cubic world
scenes to disable viewport

de-noising because it's just,

de-noising some of those effects

like ambient occlusion, which
then adds this weird ghosting

to the view port.

Of course not to the final
render, but to the view port.

Now let's save this and let's go over to

setting up the camera.