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hello everyone

and welcome to class No. 8 of new can digital

environments

and in the previous class we uh

kind of finished the balcony and shading it

and it was ready to be used

uh we started building some pots to put plants in

and uh in this class

I want to devote most of the class to uh

creating plants using a fantastic software called Speed

Tree that I use a lot

and is very helpful

uh for adding detail to matte paintings to uh

C G environments

and to comps

uh because it makes the very tedious

task of modelling plants from scratch

very easy and straightforward

so if you have taken my speed 3 course

at Ethics PhD last year

then things will be very clear

to you as we build a plant

species here

but even if you've never seen this software before

and this is the first time you even get your eyes on it

uh if you just follow with me

I promise to be uh

clear and simple and to guide you through

and what we wanna do is basically

uh create one type of plant

then we'll use two other um

preset plants so that we can have some variety

but even when we create one type of plant in Speed Tree

it's extremely easy to generate

uh basically infinite variations of the same plant

and when I look at the uh

uh balcony shots

the the actual balcony

um what I see a lot of these plants

this kind of well

I'm not a botanical expert

so I don't know how they're called

but uh this uh

kind of slim trunk

and these palm like uh leaves

and they're quite a few of them

and I thought this could be a good candy that

to create from scratch

it's got a nice shape

and since we see kind of most of

the balcony passing by pretty quick

I think that this kind of shape of plants

could work for us

and we can create a several variations

bring them into Maya

and that will do it

the later part of the

of the class

so as we look at this as reference

we can get started

in Speed Tree

so let's start by creating a new

seen or new plant

and you see that now the viewer has changed

and you can rotate around

the viewer simply by using your left mouse button

and if you hold out

you can pan around

and that's about as much as you need to um

go around the viewport

now the very first thing

you wanna do before we even start

and that's very important

is you wanna switch from simple mode

to complete mode

uh because simple mode is only giving you uh a very

small percentage of the parameters that you can use

it's made to get you started easily

but we we wanna be able to access all the parameters

and settings

so don't forget to change it to complete mode

and we have a tree base

this is just a top node

and this is a node software just like nuke

and what we wanna create in

the next node will be the trunk

so we can hover over these when it's selected right

mouse click

say add geometry to selected

and we have a

a lot of possibilities

some of them already preset

we wanna start with the simplest

possible geometry

and that would be a simple spike

which looks just like an elongated cone

now there is a little man there holding a ruler um

this is used uh

it's useful

if you are creating a whole variety of trees and plants

and you want them all to be in the same scale

for our purpose

it really doesn't matter

we can use any scaling

will rescale it anyway when we import into Maya

so we can ignore the little guy

cause obviously our little plant is gigantic right now

it doesn't really matter

um but let's look at numbers here

so let's go to spine

spine is basically

everything that goes along the lens of the plant

and we can close this curve window here and also

close this down

so we have a bit more space here

the length is 20

let's keep it like this

but let's make it thinner

so we go to branch

which is everything that has to do with the

circumference of um

the trunk and let's reduce it to

say point 45

so it's thinner

now we don't want it to be so spiky at the end

so we can control the width

along the length using the curve here

so when we click on it

we get a larger version here

and we can lift the end

so that he doesn't feel too much

like a spike

still has some tapering

but not ending in a really pointy and and

that's better okay

so this is of course

looking very straight and mechanical

we want to add some jitter

into the length of the

of the strong

so let's go back to spine

and we want to turn on

percher banks

I can never pronounce these word right

let's turn it on

and this will add some jitter

not exactly the type we want

so let's change a few parameters here

let's increase the disturbance to about 1.14

we're not seeing still any big change

but we'll see in a moment

and we can increase the jink frequency

but this is getting really twisted

much more than we want

let's reduce the jink amount to very small

let's say 0.04

so we still have something in there

but we're generally going straight and not twisted

and we can play with the Jing frequency

now one thing you can see

um very clearly

is that it's a bit too broken

a bit too straight and that's probably because we

don't have enough subdivision

we can click shift s

to see the mesh

you can also do it from here

just enable scribed

same thing and now we can see the mesh overlaid

and it's very clear that we don't have enough

subdivision

especially on the length

so we wanna go to the segments part

and we want to increase the subdivision on the length

let's say three times more to 60

and you can already see it go smoother

and maybe the radio to 12

and we can increase the accuracy

let's say 200

and that will create more

jink movement or pertrubans

and then we can go back here and just play with it

until we get something we like

don't forget that at some point

we're going to randomly generate more variation

so every time you click on the random button

basically everything

um changes according to these parameters

so we can turn off

the ascribed or the overlay of the mesh

and the one thing um

you know it's got some nice um

kind of movement along the spine

but the one thing is missing is a bit more

you know uneven surface

we can use some displacement here

so let's go to displacement

we don't need any kind of texture

we can just use the default noise

let's change the amount to 1.7

and this is breaking up

the surface nicely

and that's basically all we need

the next thing we can go

and do is apply a texture to it

that will help us view things better

so you've got a few textures

in the files that came with the class

um wherever you put them

let's go and grab one of them

so we click on this little plus here

we wanna be in the materials tab by the way

not in color sets

click on the plus here

and we can browse to where they are

and we wanna load the Bark JPEG

and when we load that

you see that it automatically loaded also the um

the normal map

so that's what we have for this

and we can take this little hand here

is simply drag and drop over the spine

now it's asking us if we want to replace

the branch material or the cap

we want both

so let's do branch

and let's drag again and do cap

cap is basically the little piece

that's put at the end

just so that we don't have a white cap over there

sometimes it's visible in Maya

so that's about it

if we turn off the displacement again

you see that it kind of feels smoother

especially if you look at the silhouette of the line

so even though we're getting now

bump maps and

and the normal maps which help make it feel more rough

you really need a little bit of displacement there

to break the actual silhouette

so the trunk is uh basically done

let's move on

to doing the leaves

let's make sure the trunk is selected

and over over 8 right click at geometry to selected

and this time we're gonna go to France and use

stems with leaves and I'll explain in the moment

so we've got these um

basically we've got two things here

if you look

at those uh

we've got these little branches that come out

and they're supposed to be the stems

and we've got this elongated

rectangles and they're the fronds

and if you select the fronds and go to

geometry types

you see that both branch and frond are enabled

if we disable the branch

we only get those rectangles

and that's basically what we want

we want just these to create those kind of elongated

flat leaves

um so we can keep the branch turned off

but now of course as you see

they are not reaching all the way to the end

if I turn back the branches or

because the way they're set up originally is to start

not not where the brand start

but a little higher up

but we can fix this very easily

if we go to the front section

and change the start

basically bring it all the way down

so now if we go back to geometry types and

turn off branches

these Frans are starting from the trunk

now they are

all along the trunk

which of course we don't want

we want them all to be concentrated

right at the end

this we do in the generated

um generation section

and you see the first and last

so as we up the first

it's gonna bring them closer to the end

let's put this

really high

like point 96

and then the last could be

all the way to the end of the trunk

which is one

and now we've got them

all kind of bunched together there

um they're all

pointing up too much

we wanna change the angle

so let's go down to spine

and the start angle

we can lower

or raise up

we also wanna add some variation to the start angle

so they don't all

have the same angle

if we click on

any of these plus

minus signs

we get to the

variation area

basically we adding a

certain amount of variation

let's put it at point five

and that already starts spreading them nicely around

and click again here to go back to the usual settings

and now we can maybe

reduce the start

angle a little bit

now they they all look just like rectangles

we wanna give them shape

we want this kind of narrow uh

elongated leaves

so again we're talking about fronds here

so let's go to the frond section

and the width

let's make it

about half point 5

so they're thinner

and now we wanna shape

the width a little bit

so let's click on the

blue curve there

and of course

we want pointy ends

just like this

um we might wanna

have them tapered down again towards the trunk

to give them a bit of nicer shape

and maybe another point here

and that's already better

another thing we might wanna change in

the fronds is the height

basically the fronds are folded in this form

you can see that here

you can see that they're folded

so they don't feel like flat rectangles

if we put these to zero

they are gonna be too flat

and if you see them from the side

they almost look too dimensional

but maybe we want just a little bit of it

and the contour is too much right now

it's too complicated

we wanna make a very simple contour

so let's just

delete all these point

take the center point

and kind of just

bring it up like this

and you can see how it affects

and this is one of the great things about speech

with everything you do

is so easily visible in real time

in the view port

there is really no guest work here

so this is it um

let's put a texture on them

and then refine the little bit more

so um once again

we wanna go and load the texture

and this time we wanna load the leaf texture

and as you can see

it's bringing

um a normals map and also

um a spec map

and we wanna drag it and put it over fronds

and now we get some kind of nice

greenish color

now it's looking a bit too even

all the leaves just look exactly the same

we want to add another texture to vary the leaves

a little bit

so this we need to do through here

if we go to front and

then materials

and you see front right there

we currently have one material

which is the leaf material

and we can click on the plus button here

to add another material

and you can see that now

half the leaves don't have a material

instead of inherited

we're gonna import a new one

and this time we go and

import the leaf dry

it's just a

drier version of the same leap

now we've got half dry and half green

we want most of them to be green

and only a few dry

so we can do this by changing the weight

and if we put this weight to

let's say point three

and these two two

we basically change the balance

and we have many more green ones than dry ones

let's keep it at once

so we have a bit more

and generally now we wanna add some more leaves

um so that it looks like those plants

so we can go to generation

change frequency to say nine

and that's adding more

and it's better

we can also go down to the steps

and increase the number

let's say ten

and this is starting to take nice shape

maybe we want a little bit more variation on the angle

so that's up to you of course

we go to spine

um to the start angle

and maybe we'll change these to say point seven

um point 6 um

and we can also increase the variation on the length

let's put it to one ah

that's too much

we want them to be more or less the same length and

one thing we're missing here right

now is a little bit of feeling of um

of gravity so they seem to be kind of stiff

which these

these types of leaves actually are

they kind of stick out

but we can add a very little you know

tiny amount of gravity just to pull those leaves down

so right in here

we can click on forces

add a force

and it's just gonna be a directional force

and by default

it's pulling down as

immediately you see that it's affecting the leaves

it's not affecting the trunk

because the trunk by default has no

um force applied to it

let's select those fronds

and go to forces

and this is our directional force

we just wanna reduce the amount

that it affects

um really we just wanna give a little bit

something like this

we can also

change the curve to really define where that happens

um maybe we just wanna

we want it to happen towards the end of the leaves

so we can change the curve

to be this is always a start and this is the end

and now we can increase a little bit

that's looking kind of nice

now when we look at the reference

photographs

uh we see that a lot of these actually comes in doubles

or triples as they

uh you know

grow out from the ground

this one has like four

this one has three um

so this is actually very easily done

now that we've got

something basically set up

let's just try and make the spine a bit narrower here

cause I looked at the photo and it did seem like

it's kind of thin

so we again

we go to branch

and we can just grab the curve and just maybe make this

the base of a bit thinner

um all we need to go is go to the level of the trunk

and in generation

we have one

we can change the frequency to say three

and we got three of them

now we don't want them to just grow around the circle

we want them to all come from the centre point

so again it's the first and last

if we start increasing the first

we get them farther apart

so let's set it back to zero

then we can reduce the last

to get them

closer to each other

now we don't want them to kind of intersect

each other too much

so we can give them a bit more angle

just the spine

we can go into the angle

the start angle

and just reduced it a little bit

and that's already looking kind of nice

and we can of course

change this

let's say to five

and we'll get five of them

and you see that each one is different

they're not just duplicates

let's keep it a 3

cause I don't think we want more than three

and now here comes the fun part um

if you click on the base

of the tree

you can basically generate

uh an infinite number of variation

simply by rolling this dice

so at each time you click on it

it's gonna use the parameters that we've set

and the variation parameters that we've set

to create um

different variations

and basically

wanna go oh

and you look at this one

this one's got broken

she's nice we might not want this

but this braking is actually

tweakable if you go to spine

there's a brake chance right here

below the gink amount

and we have a little bit of a brake chance

so once in a while we'll get a broken branch

if we set this to zero

then every time we generate a new variation

it will never get broken

if we increase the brake chance

I will get many variations that are broken

and we can set the brake spot

I think for the purpose of these plants

we want to set it to zero

um so now basically you

generate plants

you can tweak the parameters until you like them

uh when you have a shape that you like

and let's for example

also in the frequency set a variation of one

so that not

all the plants generated will have three of them

now it can vary between 3 and two

and 4 of course because we go plus minus 1

now well let's create a plant that we like I'm gonna

go back to generation and kill the plus minus 1 here

that was just an example set it to 2

so I want one with two limbs

or two branches or two trunks and um

let me roll the dice once or let's say I like this one

and now I want it

I want to export it

so first of all

it's a good idea to export all the plants into

for each plant into a separate folder

because they will come loaded with all their textures

in this case

there are not a lot of textures

but plants can go much more complicated

as we'll see later when we use some preset plants

so we wanna

you wanna create a folder for it

so it drops not only the geometry there

but also um all the textures and um

you select it

and um go to Export Mesh

and select where you wanna put it um

let's create a new folder here called it plants

and inside create a plant one

and let's call this plant 1 and we wanna use FBX

this is the best format to go to Maya and we click save

and now we'll get um

a bunch of options

and we have the option to bring everything as one piece

um it's okay

it will make things

you know simpler in Maya

the problem is that sometimes you need to have

different settings on different parts of the plants

and the best way to group them is by material

because usually

the trunk and the leaves will have different materials

in this case will have three

and it says object count 3

now because we have three different materials

two for the leaves

one for the trunk

and that usually

that's how you wanna break it up

because you wanna work on stuff

basically shader wise

wind data bones

and so forth

these are for animation

we might at the end of the class

produce one plant that has some wind in it

and then we can export this with a point cash

uh for these plans

these will put along the

um size of the balcony

they'll go by so fast that

uh wind is not really necessary

so we can uh

leave it to non

you wanna make sure that you're preset to Maya

that will realign the zny axis and all that

to work in Maya

and um that's about it

you can click okay

and save your mesh

and then the next step would be to set it up

to work with Arnold in Maya

so I created a little scene here

a little test scene for the plants we

some parts based on what we did in the previous class

and I added the ground plane

and that's important when you do lighting tests

as I said in the previous class

and we can add a Skydome

that would be our only light just for testing

these as you can see

are still in the uh

unsubdivided version

uh this is how they look subdivided

but as I said before

you can leave them unsubdivided and have it done

in the Arnold render

as long as you make sure that um

if you select the object and you

um go to the Arnold tab right here

you make sure that

subdivision's type is set to cut more Clark

and then the number of iterations

in this case

one would probably be enough

you can go up to 2

and doesn't need that much of a subdivision anyway

and these are also textured

um very simply

uh with a cylindrical mapping and

AI standard shader with some

some kind of concrete

or you know

any kind of grime texture that you wanna use

and you're not necessarily bound to the

colour of the original texture

you can always go

into the texture settings

colour balance

and for example here I

the original texture was just a grey concrete

and I played with the colour balance

right here to make it more kind of earth brown

uh same for these plates again

this is how they are in

uh subdivided

all very simple

and you probably wanna create a bunch of variety pots

um I also added a simple

plain brown colour for the ground

now you you definitely can go

and do something a bit more elaborate on this but again

you have to remember

what you're gonna see in this specific shot

if you wanna create those pots for something else

then definitely

but in this shot

they're kind of passing by pretty quickly

and once we get to the

latest third of the shot

we don't see the pot anyway

we're higher up

in the camera

so this is it

and now we can use this uh

very simple setup to uh

bring in a plant and just adjust the shaders

uh just before we bring in the plant

let's do a little test render on this one part

just to see how it looks

um for some reason today

my licence server is not running properly for Arnold

so we're gonna

get these uh

annoying watermarks

but that shouldn't deter us from

keep going on

so let's do a little test render

so these are the

um demo mode watermarks

and we're rendering at a very low quality setting

so it's it's kind of grainy

but you can still feel

the nice detail that comes up when you set up the um

the spec uh

these little ring light here and over here

so it's important when you create uh textures

even if they're generally matte like these

earthwhere kind of textures

you still wanna go there and tweak

the specular

because that will always get you a little bit of kick

so here I just added

you know some weight

some roughness

and then you put on the furnail

and you start pushing it until you get something nice

so now we can bring in the plant

so you want to go to file import

and go to where you save the plan

I usually put um in the a 3D speed tree uh folder

I put an export folder and then put the plants in there

I have several ones

uh the ones that we've created are here

and we want the FBX

let's take No. 4

I did a few variations

these are the textures

and let's import this

and you can see we have the three objects

the bark and the two objects for the leaves

and they are of course gigantic

you wanna go into the channel box

and you see that they're all scaled to 30

you just wanna put them all to one

and that's already putting them closer to what we need

so it looks nice here

we can maybe take them and scale them up just a bit

or you know just move them up because

they should be growing like this alright

um these are not gonna work in Arnold as these

they have regular standard shaders

we can do a test but yeah

we might you know not even see them properly yeah

that is not working

so whenever you bring a plant

you have to uh

set the shaders to work in arnol and this is not hard

it gets a bit more complicated with transparency

as we'll see later

but for now you just wanna take each one of these

and basically change the shader type from phong to um

AI standard

and when you do that

you probably wanna give it a name

so it doesn't get lost so that would be our trunk

mat

and these we're gonna again do the exactly the same

change to AI standard and call it Leaf mat

and

AI standard

dry leaf

mat

and if we render now

it's already going to look quite different

yeah and that's much closer to what we are

what we need

now if you look for example at the bark material

or the trunk material um

you'll see that it's got the

bump maps that were assigned in Speed Tree

but um there are some maps that don't by default

come connected

and one of them is the um spec map

so our original trunk never had a spec map

but the leaves do

so if we select

for example

the leaves here

and we look at spec

there is nothing in there is

is as far as maps and that's again where you wanna

do a little bit of tweaking just to uh

get a little bit of spec kick into the leaves

not a lot because these are

not very shiny leaves or anything like that

but it always helps as long as you do it subtle

so um let's do an IPR here so we can tweak those leaves

and we can put our IPR square

on one of them so we don't have to update everything

and let's click on let's go to specular click on color

um we wanna add a file

and let's grab the spec

the leaf spec

map from there

and now we can go back

we're still not seeing anything because

our weight is zero

so we wanna put the weight all the way to one

and now we see these really shiny

way too shiny specs

um using the color

basically that map

and now we wanna enable for nail

and again everything is gone

and then slowly push it

forward until we get

a little bit of highlight

and that's really help to you

and how you wanna make those leaves look

something like this maybe

uh we can also play with the roughness of course

and the weight

as we've done before

so you set it up the way you want

another thing you might wanna do on leaves

and again not necessarily this plant

because it feels like the leaves are supposed

to be kind of thick

uh like a cactus maybe

or a palm but on

on Tina leaves it

and maybe even here

sometimes it helps to

add some back lighting

which will reduce

the amount of darkening and shadowing in there

and make them feel more like they're passing in light

now we have to remember that we

don't have any direct light in this scene currently

just a general

ambient light

so at this point

you wanna set them up to be generically

correct so that you can bring those plants in any scene

that you ever wanna use them

but once you have it all set up

and you save those as a Maya asset

it's good to bring them into the actual scene

the one that we're working on

and test them

with the lighting there

and tweak the shaders again

so at this point

you probably wanna save this as a myocene

and I usually save those in the assets folder

just because they are

basically assets that use

you can save the plant

separately from the pots and so forth

or just save everything together

you can bring it in our scene and just

you know start moving things around

one thing to remember is that if you bring

other variations of the plants

because you wanna create um

at least three or four

uh that look different you

don't need to go through this whole shader thing again

because they're using the same texture

so you basically assign the shaders you created here

for the other plants

as long as they're similar plants

um so um that's about it

and now we wanna go back to Speed Tree

and we wanna set

one of these plants

to have a subtle

um wind motion

if you uh look back at our shot

uh we move fast

we turn around

but then when she

steps there and looks over

camera kind of stops

and at that moment

we could have at least one plan next to her

that's not totally static

that will make

you know an interesting addition

make it a bit more alive

so let's go back to speed tree

okay so here is featuring

you're probably surprised

at the sudden change of the interface

um everything looks kind of different

lots of cool buttons and so forth

um basically what we've been using up until now in

the class was

um speed 3 6

this is the newer version

speed 3 7 uh

and it's cool

it's got a lot of

new features and uh

one of the nice thing is that the

uh redesign

a lot of the

elements of the uh

gooey elements

uh things are much nicer

uh you can see instead of the sliders as

really comfortable

uh uh wheels

and there are lots of other goodies

unfortunately

uh the speed tree that you are getting on the

VPN at uh at FXPD

is still version 6

and this is why I've been doing all this

with version 6

so I just wanted to uh

give you a little glimpse at the new one

and now that

you've seen it

we're gonna go back to version 6

so I brought in one of the plants

um that we created

that I created

and we want to

see the wind on it

so we can click on the wind button right here

and after a few moments

we'll start

seeing things moving

and currently these look

a bit weird

you can also see

a little fan here

blowing happily

and here you can

you know turn around

the wind direction

the way you wanted

let's make it

coming from the left

really it matters only when

you export different types of plants into

the same scene

and you want them to be

equal in terms of

the wind movement

or wind direction

but these things look

really weird

so we'll start by

applying uh

one preset uh wind

so right click on the

uh little fan

go to the Wind Wizard

and here you can select

basic presets to start from

uh we're going to select the

stately shade tree

now this is definitely not a

stately shade tree

but it's gonna give us some

you know kind of generic

basic settings

and we wanna

uh keep the conditions calm

you can go breezy

or calm with

occasional gas

and so forth

you can also do it right here

with those lighters

let's just choose calm

and click okay

and immediately

things look a little better

here you can

see that these

are kind of grayed out

these are the wind gusts

um basically

we have one wind here

um which controls

the general um

direction of

the wind um

sorry the general intensity of

the wind uh

let's put it

at a quarter or 25%

and you see that

the whole plant is

now swaying

and there is also some movement in

the leaves now

a wind animation

in speed trees

probably one of

the most complicated

areas but here

we want to go

pretty simple

this is a simple plant

just has a trunk

and leaves so

the motion of

the trunks here

is coming from

the global motion

and if we just disable it

temporarily

the trunks are not moving

and we can concentrate of

the movement of the leaves

so we see some movement there

but it seems

way too slow

and kind of almost slow motion

uh let's go to branch

motion and again

even though these are not

really branches

Speed Tree treats them as branches

because they

are the first

generation that comes out of the

um the trunk

in this case

um we can change

the style to directional

just gonna be a

bit more interesting

we have curves here that

are related to

the wind speed

and how it affects

different parameters

I usually like to

kind of reset them

to simple curves

from these so

let's just do that

on these parameters

we can leave

the other two

the same and

um um let's

first make the frequency higher

but we want them to move a little faster

you know they're just leaves

and the distance is

how far the move

so they move

so if you put it at 10

uh they do a big

dance there

we wanna keep it

kind of uh subtle

so let's do one

I think that

should be enough

um frequency higher

and now weep

really kind of makes them bend

along their length

just to show

you how it looks

when you exaggerated

if we put 10 here

they start doing this

this is great

for a seaweed

and so forth

these of course

are not seaweed

and they're

pretty stiff

so let's keep it

at like point three

just to add

a little bit of you know

flexibility in there

we can also turn on turbulence

it will make

the movement

a little more jittery

less regular

and we can play with a sway buys

so if we move

the sway buys to the left

we're gonna

get more swaying in

the leaves if we

move it to the right

we're gonna kind of choke that swaying

and the frequency

again is how fast

the back and

forth swaying

ago so I think

now we're a

bit too far

and everything

so we can put

the distance

like point five

just to get some

simple movement

and again it's up to

your taste you

can play with this

uh the Level 2

is not really

um affecting

anything here

because we don't have

any more levels

on the plants itself

but we can go back to the

global motion

and enable it

and I just control how much

the trunk moves

seems like it's doing a

bit too much

so that's the distance

if we put it stronger

it's gonna sway a lot

um let's keep it

at like point five

to have again

just a little

bit of motion

um maybe a little more

let's say point eight

and um that's about it

for a plant like this

it's not too complicated

and if you just take the wind intensity

and globally lift it up

it's just everything is gonna intensify in terms of

motion and that's not too bad actually

and you see that it takes time

you can see it here on this graph

when you change the wind speed

it doesn't just suddenly change

it does it more naturally like

in reality and you see now speed is going down

so this is like a global slider of the amount of wind

one you once you like what you've set up

so um you like it

you can turn off the wind display if you want or on

and now when you export it and you want to export

uh with wind and

let's just call it Plan 6

it's okay again the um

all the parameters will come in

and this time you wanna keep everything the same

but you want to include a wind

and you wanna keep it at FBX

as gonna export a point cash

and the length is up to you

it it's also up to the shot

since this is pretty long

you might wanna keep it at 10

you also have to remember that the

you're not gonna

see this plan from the beginning of the shot

only like the last third or so

um frame radies of course

24 pre roll um

that will give you some extra seconds

before frame um one

and this you don't have to change because it's uh

connected to the wind

we've set here

and if you turn off allow gasting

there won't be any gasting

which we didn't use anyway

and now you can simply go

and export this plant

so here's the same plant in my eye

if you click on the

trunk for example

you'll see that there is a point cash

associated with it and gives you the frame ranges

um and um which we did 10 seconds so 2:39

you can OC later ping pong back and forth

you can reverse the cash

and and so forth um so

we'll use that in the next class when we set up things

because we probably want to frame offset the cash

not to start at frame zero

um but that's about it

it's pretty simple

I've set the length here to 240 frames

and you can see the same motion happening in Maya

so this is a very smooth and easy thing to do

um so uh we've got that

in the next class

we're gonna start putting everything together

so we're gonna bring a few more preset

uh plants in there

just to vary

we're gonna use our plants

use that one at the front

we'll choose a nice place for it

then put everything together in 3 D

get all the shaders working

render it then bring it into comp and do the

um the tweaks

and look at the problems that are still facing

so a lot to do in the next class

and I'll see you all there bye bye