Tutorial 001: Procedural Landscape in Trapcode Mir
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2019
- In this tutorial we create a fully procedural landscape in Mir, with textures and effects that apply instantly to any changes applied, allowing for almost limitless customisation.
This tutorial is aimed at advanced users, so expect to pause the video if you are not that experienced with Adobe After Effects.
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This is brilliant. Since the upgrade to v3 of Mir, Red Giant seem to have given up putting out tutorials which is unhelpful as they’ve changed the setup and how textures are applied. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Much love for this bro, been waiting for a proper Tut on MIR !
My MANS. This is a solid tutorial. Set up a Patreon and I will gladly pay to see how you mess around with Stardust, Mir, whatever. I don't know of any other channels doing that so it could be a nice gig for ya. Thanks for spending the time!
Killer tutorial! Really good! Have been playing about with Mir for a few years - such a great creative tool and so happy to see others using it! Great work sir! 👍
Hi - i applied Mir and i see white horizontal lines (not the cloudy shape seen at 0:29) and when i select the heart, i only see a black screen. do you now what i am missing? thank you
You're a beast, keep them tutos coming please! subbed.
For all of you who have trouble with the layered look in amplitude: just switch the project from 8bit to 32bits. Problem solved.
Thanks man!
This saved me! I can't tell you how many times I restarted this project thinking I missed a setting haha
how can i switch it.. where should I press on
i applied Mir and i see white horizontal lines (not the cloudy shape seen at 0:29) and when i select the heart, i only see a black screen. do you now what i am missing? thank you
Thanx man. Watched it many times and couldn't find out the problem. Your advice saved me and my nerves.😄
dont know if someone mentioned this but labeling key commands helps out alot in tutorials
A masterclass - thank you
This is awesome. You're amazing
Phenomenal tutorial on MIR - most will be quick to get lost in the nested precomps. Some better why behind the what will help this out a bit more. But really freaking awesome man. Well done.
Thanks man, yeah it's a bit advanced and also my first tutorial ever, I'll try and make it a bit easier to understand in the next one 😉
@@Pirate454 For sure bro. Loved it though. Can tell your channel will blow up with this kind of content coming! Fire man.
Hi - i applied Mir and i see white horizontal lines (not the cloudy shape seen at 0:29) and when i select the heart, i only see a black screen. do you now what i am missing? thank you
Awesome!!!!! Special Thanks for the Tuto
Hope you keep posting bro! I subbed hoping u put out more tuts in the future! This was great!
incredible! thanks
Excellent.
Saw your work on Instagram bro. Dope af. Thanks for sharing. Inspired. 🙏👌
Thanks man 😊
omg thank you man you saved a life
advanced - advanced - advanced tutorial
wow, gonna try it
awesome mir tut thnx a lot youre amazing
Keep going
i cant seem to get the same detail as you with the complexity and sub influence. Have spent a couple hours trying to figure out why not.
Edit: also thank you for such a cool tutorial! Subbed
Edit Edit: It was my bitrate. 16 works now!
Awesome tutorial, and a lot of fun to recreate. Super curious what you are rendering out as, what the render time was and your machine stats. My render time on this is crazy long, even with a real work horse of a PC. Keep up the amazing work!!! 🏔🔥🔥
thanks for this!
This looks like he is working on a 3d program creating a mountainous terrain. Amazing 😁
So good he is at T Mir that he turned AE into let's say 3Ds Max.
cool!
sick
I'm seeing a black lines across the MIR layer when set to 32 bit (& 16 bit), seems like a seam at the edge of the amplitude layer... has anyone else encountered this?
(Also: this is a great, quick tutorial... thanks for making this available DigitalPunk GFX!)
Hey man, thanks!
Have you tried changing the number of vertices of Mir on X & Y? I sometimes get these lines too, and just changing those numbers slightly fixes it. Afraid i don't know of any other fixes :(.
@@Pirate454 Thanks, that looks much better! I seem to get the most clean result with the Size X and Y and Vertices X and Y all at the same ratio. Great stuff, thanks again \m/,
thank you!
When you use the Mir3, You have to choice Effects & Mask in Amplitude Layer!! You can adjust the Amplitude.!!
more mir tutorials pls!!
@16:57: Distance Squared Lighting: Mir3 has hidden this option, you now have to set this up in the Point Light options itself
Great Tutorial but please Label pre-comps as its a bit hard to follow, still at the beginning but had a moment following where I was looking at comp 1 wondering what it was. Thanks for sharing, much apreciated
Awesome 👏 thank you! I tried using trapcode mir together with other 3d layers (imagine a photo of a person at the top of one of those mountains). But when the camera moves around, the mir layer moves differently, like it’s occupying a different 3d space. Any idea hie to get them to work together, mir with regular 3d layers?
Thanks man! Sadly Mir occupies it's own 3d space, the same with pretty much all 3d plugins for ae. Best thing I'd say it try lining up using the top/left cameras, but it's probably never going to be 100% perfect sadly.
@@Pirate454 thanks for the reply! You’re right, lining it up is probably the only way... do you suppose he used mir to create this effect at the beginning?
th-cam.com/video/_aYfSef25eg/w-d-xo.html
@@arielreyes001 it's certainly possible, it does look like it!
Hey, great tutorial. Everything worked perfectly. Except, when I have my resolution on *half*, everything looks fine, but when I set it on *full*, the water goes completely dark.
Thanks man, hmmm, not sure what would be causing that to be honest, I'd probably need to take a look at the project file.
Amazing tutorial!
@DigitalPunkGFX do you know if there is a way to add an image instead of a fill color? I'm trying to create some surreal mountain ranges using photos and I can't figure out how to add them in and have different images apply to the different heights of the landscape as you have in the tutorial. Any ideas?
Pretty sure you could use an image as an alpha matte over the fill layer and it'd display the image. Sit the image under the fill layer, then toggle modes and set the image as alpha matte. Should work 👍
@@Pirate454 That worked perfectly. Thank you! 🙏
tnx very much , what's the song's name in the beginning of the tuturial ?
This is awesome. Although (using the v3 upgrade) when I add Ambient occlusion, everything goes completely white. Been playing around with the settings but can't seem to change anything! Any ideas??
Sorry dude not ran into that problem before...Could maybe be an alpha issue, try adding just a black solid beneath Mir. That's just a random stab in the dark though. Hope you manage to fix it!
if you place other objects in this (let's say trees or whatever... 2D stuff...) will they be affected by the fog? (the more in the distance the more foggy) i wanna realize a 3D dolly shot through a forest with 2D trees and i am wondering wether this tutorial might be the way to go. (it has to be in after effects) if in addition there would be "automated volumetric fog" for the scene, that'd be even more awesome.
That could kinda work with a particle based system, like say Stardust. The fog wouldn't affect the trees though, but you could get around that by using the same gradient on top of the particle layer, most likely by using a map on the z axis.
@@Pirate454 interesting... the showreel of this plugin looks pretty decent, too. it's not free though and i got to stick to the tools i have (AE itself and Red Giant Complete). i was fiddling around with trapcode particular a bit, but wasn't even able to pull of a moving camera shot through a simple particle field, so... (it was always 2D particles which looked 3D buit were flat). no expert though, so maybe i did something wrong.
Hey dude.. Great video. Do you know why for some reason my mountains are transparent?
I mean what could have caused it?
@@Amirfm Hey man! Thanks :)! Did you make sure Mirs blending mode is set to normal? I think by default it's screen.
Yap. :)
I tried to add the sky and all that and then I saw the bg blends with the mountains
Ummmmm, Something like That🎉
Getting a lot of stair casing on the mountains and ridges. Any thoughts?
Hey man, make sure you have a lot of vertices in Mir, you could also add multi or super sampling and that should probably fix it.
@@Pirate454 didn't work. Anyway I can DM you screenshots
@@reggiewaters696 it could also be that your amplitude map isn't a high enough res? Yeah if you search digitalpunkgfx on Facebook you could send them there.
@@Pirate454 I'm experiencing the same issues, did you find a solution?
@@pibezZ666 we problem solved it a fair bit and came to the conclusion that it's most likely a problem with gpu drivers, so best to get in touch with Red Giant support.
Following along this with mir 3, mines not looking like yours, don’t know what the issue is
Seeing a lot of messages about mir3 being different, sadly 😔!
I'm having the same issue :/ trying to figure out what the additional changes need to be to match
This is, perhaps, a dumb question, but what does one need to do to make this work with Mir 3? What settings would I need to change from the default?
It's exactly the same process, just some of the settings have been moved around from mir2, so you might have to dig around for certain things
Doing this in Mir 3, anyone have issues with black lines through their MIR?
Hey man, this happens sometimes, you just need to play around with the number of vertices and at some point they should disappear (it's random afaik).
Brilliant tutorial! However, I’m having some problems rendering this in full resolution. When in 1/3 res it shows all of the colours and textures but when I put it into full res it loses it all. Currently working at 32bpc if that makes any difference. Anyone know what I can do?
Hey man, thanks! What's your system specs?
@@Pirate454 working on a late 2015 MacBook Pro, intel i7 processor, 16GB ram and an AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2GB graphics card - hope that helps!
@@ethandobell1442 Hmm, could be you're maxing out the vram on your card. I'd maybe try lowering the resolution/vertices on Mir and the textures, so basically any sizes just reduce them by 50%, especially the precomps. Might help 🤔. Also have you got the latest drivers for your card installed?
@@Pirate454 took the file into a a much beefier iMac (8GB graphics card, 64 ram and i9) and when it’s rendered a frame in full resolution I just gives me a white screen. Gonna follow the tutorial again later on on this computer and see what happens! Thank you for your help!
I can't get any solutions with mir3. not with 32bits, AO intensity, smooth ridge, CUDA or no CUDA or any setting I try. Beside a very stepy landscape there is a Zebra texture that also persists every changes I make. Too bad
Have you tried playing with the amount of vertices? Sometimes I get that zebra pattern and playing with the vertices values fixes it.
What's the equivalent of Distance Squared Light Falloff in Mir 3 ?
I think you set that on the light itself (Inverse square i believe) - for some reason they didn't place that in the plugin menu, like in Mir 2.
yo how did you change the camera view with your mouse cause I can't do that
If you press C it cycles through different camera modes in the viewport 👍
@@Pirate454 thanks
Hi - can you help, please? i created a new comp, added a solid layer, applied Mir and i see white horizontal lines (not the cloudy shape you have at 0:29) and when i select the heart, i only see a black screen. do you now what i am missing? thank you
That's really strange man - the cloudy fractal shape should be Mirs default. What version are you using?
It may be that you have a transparent background set, try adding a black solid underneath Mir.
@@Pirate454 thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work for me. i'm using Mir 3 and this is my default when i apply Mir, no clouds. also tried it on a solid white layer imgur.com/a/F5JBdec
@@artkiko4460 that's really weird. Have you updated your video card drivers?
@@Pirate454 i have a really old mac mini. if it's a video card issue, i'm probably SOL. thanks, though.
Ah, which version of Mir are you using? I've got v3 and using your values I get nothing like the result you do. :(
That's weird, I'm using 2 here but also have 3 and get pretty much the same result using both. Whereabouts does it start looking different on yours?
@@Pirate454 Its mainly in the Z-range. The heights don't transition smoothly, rather the peaks tend to sit as spikes in isolation. With experimentation I've found that if I if I use Fractal>Z Lift rather than Fractal>Amplitude to raise the displacement that seems to fix it (but Amplitude needs to be reset to 50 not 0). First (fixed) attempt can be seen here th-cam.com/video/n6Ni9ulND4I/w-d-xo.html
Oh, and I had to change the Fractal>Type to 'Multi SmoothRidge'
@@davidbadger2340 sorry dude just seen this, you manage to fix it? I can't see why that'd be happening 😕
@@Pirate454 Yeah I am getting a similar result, I tried @davidbadger fix but I am still getting a strange look. My peaks are not coming out smooth.
@@davidbadger2340 Still not getting the smooth result, any chance you can send a screen shot of your settings?
I can't find Light Falloff - Distance squared in the menu. Am I going insane?!
Hey man! If you're using Mir3 the option has been taken away (no idea why...). You now have to change it on the light itself (light options).
@@Pirate454 Dude thank you so much!
While making this i finally ended up with minecraft desert hills Full blocky🤣
Until 2:34 everything looked the same on my side, but after you changed the vertices to 1500 it looks completely different than mine after i set vertices to 1500 .. imgur.com/a/6xNvGca .. your result is a lot smoother :/
Same here... I have no idea why. @Pirate454 any ideas?
Found a solution if nothing else works: in Geometry, set the Reduce Geometry value to x16. Not the best results, but still better than the layered look.
at 02:39 there's a crossline in the center of my landscape that doesn't appear in the texture comp. :( help, anyone?
Sometimes increasing/decreasing the vertices in Mir helps remove these random lines, it's a strange bug!
@@Pirate454 Thanks!!!
What if i use Mir 3?
As far as I know its the same process, the menu in Mir 3 will look a little different though.
On this step 2:22 my landscape is transparent((
Hi Michael, have you made sure mirs shader blend mode is set to normal? And depth buffer is on? Thanks
@@Pirate454 Yep. I found: color depth was 8 bit. Thanks for the gread video!
@@Pirate454 hm. It's transparent anyway. I used curves to reduse transparency.
Not a knock on you, but more the software.... the landscapes look cartoony not photorealistic.
I agree, tbh i think it's the texture more than anything. You can use a product called geomaps (I think) that'll map real world terrain and use it as an amplitude and texture map, which is a lot more realistic. Guess using my method is the poor man's version, since that plugin is like £300 😭
@@Pirate454 Thank you for the very quick response. You make an excellent point regarding the textures. This whole process is new to me, I was looking at purchasing Mir. It's currently on sale.