From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
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Creating canyons in VUE xStream
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
Creating canyons in VUE xStream
you know, we had this big overview of Vue and what it can do, and in this tutorial, I'm going to specifically look at how I created the mountains, canyons, that scene for the Assurance. Now, if you come over here to the mountain, we hold down the mouse button, Well, this F, this actually creates something called a procedural terrain. You see, when we created the height field terrain, again, it uses this black and white map to create this mountain as we saw, but if we chose a procedural terrain, what it does is it uses, kind of, a method, a procedure, to procedurally create an entire planet of terrain. Now this was ideal for me for the Assurance because I can create kind of like a world of canyons, and just kind of describe the world, and then I could get all the camera shots and reverses that I want to, knowing that the world is complete. So, to look at the procedural terrains that come with Vue, I'm just in an empty preset here, or an empty file, it doesn't matter where you are. I'm…
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