My ENTIRE environment workflow in Blender (Updated) 

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yeah probably a good idea to do that every time lol

thanks lol!

u need a mind

@@PlasticSaberi think it was a joke

😄very true.

@@Lynx_cinematics.mp4 Not joking that the moon landing was faked. Too many photographic fails.

ill keep it in mind,, thanks!

could do that!

Thanks!

@@baeac np!

That's because adaptive is more for really fine displacements and is dependent on your camera distance. it also takes longer to render because you'll probably have more geometry. I just use the subdivided mesh to displace so im sure it displaces what i want, but not with a lot of geometry. long story short adaptive is good for other things and takes a long time to render, my method is quick and works pretty well imo!

I dont really get what you're asking tbh, but the idea is that the meshes in the particle system are instanced from the original mesh so you'd have to rotate that one

@@baeac well, in order to get the plant collection in the outliner, I have to place the plants in the scene (as far as I know). After I've made the instances, if I select all the grasses in the outliner it just grabs the originals that I placed. If I try and rotate the instances, it rotates the entire plane. If I delete the originals I placed, it deletes them from the outliner. I understand, it's confusing to even try and type this out, but that's the issue I'm having. I'll try again this evening. I do appreciate the reply, very much!

@@baeac does it matter that I'm using 4.0?

@bigsky7617 yes it all seems to be working. you're not supposed to rotate/delete the instances, those are created by the particle system. doesn't matter that you're using blender 4.0, this has been the same since blender 2

@@baeac I just realized what was happening. I had downloaded a few collections from Quixel, and in the outliner I was selecting the hierarchies, not the objects (3:57 in the video). So I couldn't go into edit mode and I didn't realize it. Sorry about the confusion and the silly mistake, thank you for your help! Going to finish it up now!

That shouldn't be happening so I have no idea whats going on,, a little hard to problem solve without seeing your blender. You are not supposed to be able to select individual grass in the viewport tho if that is what you mean

@@baeac I figured out what was happening. The imported instances were not visible, so I wasn't seeing them being selected. Now all is well! Thanks

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what do you suggest instead

i dont care,, it works

@@KoreanSpy Geometric nodes, of course.

@@baeac I agree. Some places even have steam trains. 😉 I love steam trains, by the way. They're alive. 😊

@@haudtalis5036 so you want me to make a particle system in geometry nodes instead of just using the particle system thats shipped with blender? i get what you mean and all that but it doesnt make much sense if the only thing you're going to do is add some grass and rocks

rtx 3060 ryzen 5 3600 16gb 2666 ram

I dont agree with that at all

yeah but it can be compressed right? blender does 15% by default

@@baeac yeah, but it's still lossless compression. The Zip algorithm (also known as "Deflate") is really good. if you don't compress your PNGs, then they might end up exceeding EXR in file size, and there's basically no reason why. another kink in the PNG is that it has no support for arbitrary alpha channels. It supports an alpha channel but it doesn't enforce reading it as such. Adobe treats it weirdly: instead of creating a mask from the alpha channel, Adobe deletes the pixels where there's transparency, resulting in loss of data. That's when a separate render pass for the alpha, or the EXR format can be useful (otherwise there's also a plugin for photoshop called "SuperPNG" that helps with that with PNG files, the way that EXR plugins do). Anyways, compressed or not, it's still lossless.

@@pardismack thanks for the explanation!! i cant lie its a little weird tho

not really necessary for only some grass and rocks

@@baeac oks. May I ask if this would be heavy on the PC?

yeah it will be pretty heavy,, not much more than geonodes tho@@floyd1411

@@baeac Roger that. Thank you for the tutorials. Cheers!

definitely not!

@@baeac lmao bro i do it with my rtx 3050 i5-10400 32 gb ram still hard even to controll the situation after the grass apply 😭