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LESSON OVERVIEW
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VIDEO EDITING NOTES:
- The video needs more interesting visuals with animations etc
- Audio needs to be rebalanced
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Missing LESSON OVERVIEW
Initial Setup
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"Before we get started on creating our leaf meshes, we need to make sure the material is setup so we can map our leaves to that material..."
EDITING NOTE: The Image above will be replaced with an overview on how to setup a material in Speedtree
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"Once we have the materials all setup, we can then create meshes using our texture and it's UV's as our reference to create..."
Creating Leaf Cards
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"Once we have the materials all setup, we can then create meshes using our texture and it's UV's as our reference to create..."
Preparing To Create Our Bush
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"Before we get to creating the actual holly bush, we want to make sure we understand what we are building. This avoids potential back and forth later on ..."
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"With this done we can now have all the information and references we need to start creating the holly bush, startign with our trunk... "
Creating FROND MESHES
NOTE: What do we think about having this and "CREATING LEAF CARDS" together in one section, this would mean having the following sequence
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PREPARING TO CREATE OUR BUSH
3. CREATING LEAF CARDS
4. CREATING FROND MESHES
This would be better flow-wise
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"With the leaf meshes done, we can now create our frond meshes, these are larger meshes covering more space..."
Trunk Creation
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"Now that we have both our leaf and frond meshes all setup, we can go into actually creating our full bush, starting with the trunk of the bush"
TASK (Optional): Add additional information that might be useful in the TRUNK CREATION section
Creating Branches
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"Once we have the trunk setup, we need to work on the next layer, which are all the branches we've created. starting with the main branches themself."
Adding Branch Geometry
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"The main branches are responsible for ..."
First Branch fronds
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"This is the part where smoke and mirrors becomes involved, we want to seamlessly transityion between actual geometry and fake cards that look like they are still geometry ..."
Branch Extenders
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"We can see that the volume is not where we need to to be, for this we add branch extenders, these help us ... "
Setting up leaves
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First Leaf Cards
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Cutting Single Leaves
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Setting Up Anchor Points
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NOTE: This section and the "Complex Anchor Points" section could be merged into one to create a section on anchor points.
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"Placeholder..."
NOTE: Add image here showing a simple setup of the anchor points we have at this point.
Adding Single Leaves
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complex anchor points
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NOTE: This section and the "Complex Anchor Points" section could be merged into one to create a section on anchor points.
Polishing
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"Now that we have all the major components, set them all up to be functional and close to our references it's time to get into polish, where we really start fine tuning different elements of the asset... "
Solving Issues
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"In this section we're looking at the different issues we currently have, such as x, y and z and looking to resolve all of them before moving on to other bits of polish."
VIDEO EDITING NOTES: Video has a lot of dead space, and needs additional graphics to make it more exciting or separate the different issues into little chapters in the video
Filling in the Center
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"During the polish phase I also notices that the center of the tree is not as dense as they usually are in real life..."
Adding Leaf Extensions
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"Now that we fixed the center, it's time to look at the silhouette and refine it a bit and add younger leaves while go at it..."
general Polish
NOTE: Feels like this section is a bit random in terms of sequence in the lesson
Might be interesting to move/merge it to another section?
VIDEO EDITING NOTES:
- Video has a lot of length to it. Could benefit from additional graphics to make it more exciting or separate the different issues into little chapters in the video
- Bottom taskbar need to be hidden in edit
Materials
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"Before we go into exporting our bush to the engine we need to make sure that the materials are setup and we have proper UVs plus..."
Bark Material
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"It's time to add a material to our little tree, setting this up is pretty simple as we will see in the next video""
Berry attachments
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Fine Tuning
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VIDEO EDITING NOTE:
- This section can definitely be sped up to cut out a lot of the fluff, will need video editing.
- Background music needs to be extended to the full length of the video.
- Background Music might also be too slow?
Importing and exporting
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"It's finally time to get it all setup in Unreal Engine, in the following steps we're going to be doing ..."
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NOTE: Share an image showcasing condensed Unreal Engine Import settings
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"With this all setup we can now enjoy our little holly bush inside of unreal engine...""
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