Rain and Snow Techniques

• Customize weather precipitation controls & particle characteristics.

• Edit particle precipitation materials.

• Learn to use Atmospheric Particle Collision density to layer snow onto surfaces at the rate of snowfall, and add wetness effect layers for rainfall.

Emission Delays | Wall Effect

• Design function based controls to create storm-front effects and limit rainfall coverage through the precipitation area.

• Create a start delay for Vue rain matching the rain's velocity.

• Design materials functions to create falling water patterns.

• Limit how close weather effects can render near the camera, preventing giant rain or snow showing in the render.

• Add per instance variability and randomization to precipitation (rain/snow) materials.

UI and Workflow

• Get up to speed with the workflow enhancements added to ecosystem generation.

• 360 degree population usage in EcoSystems and Particle Systems

• Save time by learning to bypass instance preview updates after making changes to EcoSystem materials.

EcoSystem Painter

• Manage instance selections with the EcoSystem Painter

• Explore the new EcoSystem painter and all it has to offer.

• Design custom EcoSystem brushes using the effectors menu

Material Painting

• Generate procedural masks using the Materials Editor's environment tab controls.

• Use the Terrain Editor's material alpha preview to create detailed freeze masks.

• Learn several useful techniques to get the most out of the new alpha painting tools in the terrain editor.

• Paint directly on the layer_painting procedural mask.

Zone Material Painting

• Non-destructive zone painting, preserve your underlying layers.

• Create advanced material mixes with the layer_painting metanode.

• Learn to prevent Vue from overwriting changes made to the terrain layer_painting metanode.

• Use the environment attenuation material output to override the material layer alpha boost.

• Learn efficient ways to manage zone painted layers, allowing better design control and flexibility.

• Learn pre-painting setups for material alpha channels for more control over the procedural alpha layer.

Shared Material Layers

• Learn to use the new shared material layers to add snow cover to objects through out your scenes.

• Share and link material layers between EcoSystem instances.

Parameter Publishing

• Usage for changes and additions to parameter extraction and function driven outputs.

• Edit inputs using the new Function Parameter menu.

Geometry Effects | Castle Wall

• Create castle walls with displaced spline objects. (techniques can also be used to create displaced river systems with a flow direction relative to the spline.

• Create a UV tiling function for Spline materials, controlling the amount of times a texture map is repeated per vector.

Particle Emissions Overview

• Emission flow and Hz particle generation controls.

• Defining particle to object collision relationships.

• Use functions to control particle instance velocity.

Introduction to Particle Sprites

• Global Particle Configuration usage and control.

• Learn to properly setup objects for use as camera oriented sprites (dos and don'ts of sprite rendering).

• Use the evolution controls to generate a variety of particle effects.

Custom Smoke Sprites

• Design custom smoke sprites using imported objects and advanced normal mapping functions.

• Create a billowing smoke emitter system.

• Design animated material functions, with the ability to define Color, Opacity, or any channel, from birth to death, and everything in-between.

• Apply per particle rotations to particle texture maps

• Use particle dependent relationships to animate materials.

Dependent Emissions

• Animate collision objects to displace, destroy, impact, or emit particles.

• Understanding surface evaluation of normals for accurate control of emission flow and density.

• Learn to control particle size and weight relationships.

• Use the particle render modes to blur particles, align instance orientations to the path of velocity, and merge instances into MetaBlobs.

• Learn to control child particle emissions and learn to balance the scaling and weighting differences caused by parent layer scaling.

• Explore the Particle Characteristics interface options to precisely control how a particle behaves.

• Create fixed Particle populations that interact completely with Vue's physics engine.