How I Made My 3D Forest Scene Look Good(ish) - Behind The Scenes [Godot 3D GameDev]
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- My first attempt at a breakdowns/making-of for how I made my 3D Forest scene look good(ish) in Godot engine (3.x).
I feel it'd be disingenuous to call this a gamedev tutorial as I've kept it fairly high level, mostly just talking about my workflow, but hopefully will give others ideas or inspiration. I should've mentioned that this whole process really took a day or two of constant back and forth tweaking settings, but that wouldn't make a fun video.
I guess I'm still toying around with how I want to make videos, so trying new things to see what sticks (hence the jankiness).
In all honesty, I think this video took longer to make than the scene originally, so let me know if you want more as I don't think I'll do another for a while otherwise ^^. I'll keep trying to fix audio oddities in future.
Anywho thanks, comment/like/subscribe etc!
Beau
#gamedev #madewithgodot #forest
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Tutorial for BoTW Style grass in Godot | • BotW STYLE GRASS TUTORIAL
Rocks I think were from | sketchfab.com/3d-models/rocks...
Trees were prossibly made while evaluating SpeedTree, or I made following advice found | wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Foliage
Godot GodRays plugin | godotengine.org/asset-library...
Textures and such | PolyHaven and/or butchered by me :(
Moths add realism to anything | • Animate Moths in Blend...
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Forming new ideas
0:47 I really just like grass!
1:27 Populating the scene
2:08 Environment Lighting
5:55 Ambient movement
6:20 Closing - เกม
I have to agree, moths do add realism to anything. Even space stations.
I love that Ian Hubert reference
That Ian Hubert moth reference got me laughing out loud :D Nice one
hehehe same
I scrolled down in search for a comment like this
What is the reference? I didn't get it
@@foobars3816 When he said mentioned the moths and how they make everything look more real
Moths really do add realism to anything
good thing the devs are focusing more in 3d in godot 4, so much potential! that's amazing.
I was thinking of attempting to start trying to make a game in godot, but I was wondering if I could make it look the way I want it, and I think this video finally inspired me to pick it up, thank you.
Awesome to hear :D thanks!
Well done! This is so awesome
This is amazing. One of the best scenes I've seen in Godot and a great video explaining everything. Nice job.
The Ian Hubert quote at the end of the video really was the cherry on top. Great video!
Really nicely done mate!
Thanks, love your work too! :D
Great work would love to see more of this in the future
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proximity texture blending is the secret ingredient.
They was a recent PR for an updated blending algorithm which looks even better to ^^
For me personally this is how art is done. Just play around with it until it is pleasing to my eyes.
"Moths add realism to anything" haha
That's awesome, Great work and Keep UP
That looks awesome. And then knowing you just layered crap up with trial and error is very encouraging when that's all I know how to do too 🤣
It's pleasing to hear, pleasing to see. Awesome.
I really liked the format! Would be nice to see more content like this, it's been really informing 😲
Cool. Really like this natural setting.
More godot tutroials in 3D are always welcomed, this environment was beautifully done too great work!
Very entertaining and informative! I would love to see more videos similar to this!
This is cool. It feels something like halfway between PS2 and PS3 era.
wonderful, and thanks for sharing this dev! it is inspiring
you really made those afternoon colors pop
Whoooooa that's so cool! Nice work! Keep playing with Godot like this, I'm sure it will pay off!
This piece of work has a lot of potential, I like it, sub!
It looks lovely!
Wow! You deserve more subs! Good luck on your project. :)
Very nice result!
looks really good!
Very educational. Thank you.
This is great!
Stunning
This scene is beautiful, really shows that godot is capable of great graphics if you know how to use it
Very cool! Thanks
WOA! The foliage in this scene is insanely cool!
I'd love to hear a breakdown of the grass since I'm doing a BotW remake, but don't force yourself to if you don't wanna. Absolutely would love to see more of this in the future!
I think its funny how many people were inspired by that one grass asset / tutorial xD
Moths
I'm not sure what your background is but the way you think and how you articulate your thoughts in your process are a winning attitude. I think I made like 5 grammar errors in that but we all good ;)
it was awesome, keep making these videos
This somehow gives off some strong Black & White vibes, great job!
This is pretty cool! Though I do feel like the trees and rocks, especially the trees, are in this middleground where they are trying to look real, but aren't real enough to be convincing. If you revisit this, maybe try either more realistic assets for those things, or more stylized. Anyway, this is a really cool scene!
Good job very informing !
Wow love it
Great video! Keep it up :)
On top of the noise pattern you used on the grass, I've seen someone use a color ramp to add a bit more variation and color to various areas, which make it look like the grass isn't just 2 different colors.
This was good I was curious all that you did to get Godot looking so nice.
leant a few things for our game. Mostly underwater but still learnt some useful things :)
Glad I could help!
you are a good director. good direction trumps graphical fidelity
Very cool. It is nice and helpfull to look over your sholder :-)
looks great.
this looks great I didn't realise fog could make such a difference in open world scenes
Something that GTA Defective edition forgot to realize it importance at launch lol
This earned you a subscriber.
nice video , subscribed
Impressive!
Liked and subscribed, keep it up
How did you add movement to the bushes and trees? You fast forwarded that part and it interests me! Great video
i caught the moths reference lmao
I would love to see some performance metrics on this / what hardware you're running
I have never in my life heard 'O-pace-ity'
"I made the fog a deep yellow for a sunset kind of lighting"... proceeds to add white bright sun high in the sky that would not at all explain that kind of light lmao. It looks amazing though. The fog does look like it's some kind of otherworldly yellow fog because it doesn't really fit the lighting but oh well, the scene still looks great.
6:13 :3 IanHubert
wow!
yes please more break downs
Yes moths please.
What plugin did you use to make this grass?
Could you make a tutorial teaching how to do the same as the example in the video?
Yes please
You sir, you have some real *skill* and *talent* with Godot and Blender. I would love to see some written out tutorials going into more detail about some of your processes. You might even consider building up a course based on what you've learned and selling it on one of those digital education course-ware type sites. I'd prolly be willing to *pay* for somethin' like that (and I'd likely not be alone). 😉
It's very flattering but unfortunately I do have a day job, so finding the time to go to that level is not (currently) on the cards. The response to this video has been overwhelming though, so I'll try to make future videos more informative regardless :D thanks!
@@BeauSeymour Well, thank you much for sharing your knowledge on this topic. It's genuinely helpful and informative information you're putting out here, and greatly appreciated.
really nice .. new sub ;)
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can you share how you made tiling grass
how did you move the trees? A shader?
Ah yes, add moths for more realism
Awesome, but I suggest to have a look at trees. It has different design style from grass. It's a bit of a pain in the eye to notice it. So would be really cool if you try to "simulate" (redraw/remodel) trees in order to make the style of your project holistic
Looks really good but for an afternoon/sunset scene isn't the sun a little too high and the sky a little too blue? I think changing these would really help sell the sunset atmosphere
Haha yeh it is a bit, but I didn't really have any references throughout this one and just eyeballed the whole thing ^^
on what PC (spec wise) are you runing this?
Love the video, would you mind telling the stupid me what you are talking about at 6:14, what you said you should have added, please?
Thank you!
th-cam.com/video/imkSdlbXB_U/w-d-xo.html
Hello
Amazing scene, what gpu are you using?
Thanks! An RTX 2060 (laptop). Most of this was recorded somewhere between 1080 and 4k with a bit of a hit from OBS adding to the mix, so there's some breathing room still.
I just discovered your channel and realised you sound a lot like Sebastian Lague
Honest piece of advice, getting a better mic so there’s less reverb on your voice would make it so much better. Never underestimate the value of a good mic.
I really want to develop a game . But I don't have any assets to do it. But good luck to you. And more tips about godot will be helpful for me
You'll be happy to know that there's tons of CC0 (public domain) and other really generously licensed assets of various kinds to be fairly easily found on the web. Just be sure to check the license terms for any assets you actually use in a project, and you should be fine. There's also tons of great free tools (and fantastic tutorials here on TH-cam and Vimeo and other sites) to create your own assets for anything you can't find pre-built. :)
@@BlooAlien thank you dude but I broke my laptops hard drive. ..😢
As we know Godot is very simplistic and i have seen it performing better with c# if compared from Unity, do you think a scene like this with similar effects would perform better on Godot if compared from unity?
If I, a Godot hobbyist, were to try to get this running in Unity in an afternoon, it would likely perform worse. Because I don't know Unity, or even the basic tips and tricks to optimise it.
The same is true in reverse.
It takes more than a glance at an alternative engine to know if it's 'more performant' at a fundamental level. And if you have to ask 'which engine is better', your probably not at a stage where the answer even matters.
@@BeauSeymour I gotcha
I was expecting you to actually have played around with unity in the past. My bad. Also, a comparison isn't that of a hassle. Something like which engine got more efficient post processing effects etc. For example, Godot's bloom samples seem to be much lower than that of Unity, but you did made it look beautiful! And lower samples==better performance. I am not talking about our creativity to optimise a game in this conversation. What I wanted to know about is which engine got more efficient existing features. Unity may seem like a very big engine, but sometimes simplicity is much more efficient and that's the reason many mobile devs still prefer decade old techniques and blogs, for the sake of performance. If you know what I mean
Good enough to make me subscribe.
I don't understand why you made fog brown though, instead of white or grey.
Thanks ^^. Re. the fog, I didn't want it to detract from the overall green/orange tones of the scene, but rather subtley compliment the god rays/haziness of an afternoon. This may not be particularly accurate, I just had something in mind and found the further away from a sun based color it was the more it distracted from the overall scene.
@@BeauSeymour I understand now, ty.
A cheat to get the right atmosphere, not morning fog.
there are like no videos on 3d landscaping in Godot. would love a video Series on how you did this in depth. i know you brake things down in this video but its nothing i can really how you say... copy? i hate that not copy but learn from. from this i only learn visualy but i cant put that in my own game i still have no idea how its done.
It's a shame the final presentation is covered by on-screen links to other videos. Instead of enjoyment I'm now filled with frustration.
Ian Hubert reference capted 6:12
Can i make height map 16 bit png? It will be smooth finish?
No I should've mentioned that, from memory I noticed banding in PNGs so went with .EXR format. (In hindsight a 32-bit png might've been fine, but .EXR worked out of the box)
Hello blessed, could here on You Tube put a video teaching step by step how to create a 3D game in Godot 4?
Haha not a small task, but it's something I've been considering. Not sure I'm the right person to teach though as I've never really finished a 'full' game.
@@BeauSeymour From what I saw in your video, you teach well blessed; it's really not an easy task to accomplish, but it's not impossible; Thank you and may Christ bless you! Jesus will return, get ready. Matthew 24
If you use more realistic textures, for example created in sustancer painter, surely the scene will look much better ... Very good. Greetings.
Have you tried to run this on godot 4.0?
Nope, nor have any intention to play with Godot 4.0 until probably RC1. I've eyeballed it a few times and it strikes me as too unstable/prone to change atm and most of the concepts I'm learning in 3.x will be equally valid in 4.0 anyway.
Doesn't look AAA like something made in unit or UE5, but looks great for an indie game. I think some subsurface scattering on those tree leaves would go a long way to improve the visuals. they look too flat.
Fuck i just really want to do something like this but it seems so alien to me like really hard, I don't understand where I would start. I am the typ e of person who doesn't like mods i'd like to understand all so i can implement it but damn idk what to do
guess I'll just stick to being a web dev even tho making games has always been like my dream or som
I have the same problem. I want to do everything myself so I know it's all my work and no one can accuse me of copying...
But I really need to get over that... I mean, I'm going to be using a game engine someone else made, so I shouldn't be afraid of using assets others have made for devs to use.
Any plans on porting this to Godot 4.0?
Sure, in 6-12 months when 4.0 releases. I see no reason to play with unstable builds subject to change at any time when the principles and likely majority of the workflow will remain unchanged from 3.X
@@BeauSeymour There are actually quite some differences and what you did in this video should be doable in current 4.0. Maybe even without crashes.
Apology accepted... Up to that point, the video is definitely good enough.
It looks kinda like scrap mechanic
dude! Is this the best the engine can do? SMH
No, this is what a hobbyist beginner with no formal training and a day job can do.
godot. great