Creating a Procedural Environment

Lesson Breakdown

For this lesson, have a crack at:

• Creating the terrain
• Adding dummy trees
• Scattering the points
• Using pscale to drive scale
• Replacing the dummy spheres with tree geo
• Adding multiple trees to the Switch node
• Using randomness to generate different trees:
  • rand($PT)*3
  • stamp(“../copy1”,”modelSwitch”,1)

Assignment

For your assignment, we’d like you to create a procedural environment. It could be a forest, a cityscape, a fantasy island, etc.

Try to stick within the following parameters:

• You cannot manually move objects around to position them.
• You should be able to easily change the input objects. For example, change a set of trees to a set of rocks.

When you are happy with your environment, please submit a series of still images (screengrabs) of your environment to our Discord.

Training

For more information on all things software related, you can check out our courses here:

• Introduction to Maya 1001
• Introduction to CG Tools and Techniques 1001
• Creating Digital Studio Look Development Environments
• Character Modelling for Feature Animation 1001

The Connection Programme

If you are a fan of mixing science with art, or maths with creative thinking, then join our Connection Programme, where we’ll be exploring VFX, animation and games from the core fundamentals:

• The Connection Programme

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