Unreal Engine & SpeedTree Growth Animation

Name: Unreal Engine & SpeedTree Growth Animation
Rating: 3.6 (9 reviews)

Bring animations of SpeedTree foliage to Unreal Engine

Created byLuciano Júnior

Last updated 7/2021

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Create growth animation to Unreal Engine

Course content

2 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 20m total length

Introdução4:54
Open the timeline and enable growth to animate the tree. Adjust speed, frames, and curves, preview playback, and export the animation frames for use in your project.
Export Tree Animation3:23
Export the tree frames to a dedicated folder for Unreal Engine 4, name each frame sequentially, adjust export quality, and save the sequence for SpeedTree growth animation.

Import Tree2:59
Create a speed tree folder and import the .s.t. model with textures and materials. Enable sub-surface and vertex processing to generate wind effects, repeating for all trees to manage memory.
Level Sequencer2:52
Enable level sequence in Unreal Engine to drive SpeedTree growth animation by adding an actor track, creating fifty-eight keyframes at three-frame intervals, and duplicating frames for quick setup.
Configuring Tree Animation inside Level Sequencer7:10
Configure tree growth animation inside Unreal Engine's level sequencer by arranging key frames for SpeedTree models, adjust playback speed, and troubleshoot blinking leaves and distant visibility.
Fixing Textures Leaf7:17
Learn to fix leaf textures in SpeedTree within Unreal Engine by adjusting mean alpha and max alpha, plus distance parameters, to keep leaves visible at far camera distances.
"BULK EDIT" Editing textures with one click2:41
Edit sub-surface textures for trees in bulk with a single click by setting alpha and max alpha values, save modifications, and apply changes for consistent texture appearance and animation.
Fixing Blink animation Pt.17:45
Learn how to create a new level sequencer to fix the blinking animation by duplicating trees at the same position and rotation, copying transforms, and keyframing in the sequencer.
Fixing Blink animation Pt.23:59
Fix a blink animation in Unreal Engine by offsetting one frame and syncing a second tree with the same position, rotation, and scale, using level sequencer to create growing forest.
Illumination4:18
Fine-tune illumination in Unreal Engine by adjusting directional light, skylight, and post-process exposure, then preview real-time capture to balance clouds, forest density, and shadows across frames and animation modes.
Sequence Display Rate0:51
Adjust the sequence display rate in the Spirit sequencer to control animation speed. Increase to 120 or 240 requires moving keyframes one frame later to avoid five-frame delay and blinking.
Multiple Trees4:31
Learn the correct way to generate a forest in Unreal Engine's sequencer by duplicating frames, organizing folders, and avoiding manual mesh copies.
How to do a small forest7:19
Learn how to create a small forest by duplicating trees, organizing them into folders, and applying growth animation with SpeedTree in Unreal Engine.
Tree size Variation7:35
Explore tree size variation in Unreal Engine with SpeedTree by adjusting scale across keyframes in the sequencer and ensuring two trees share the same transform and descale.
Tree time variation13:01
Learn to create tree time variation with the sequencer timeline, keyframing SpeedTree trees, adjusting growth start times, and duplicating instances for varied forests in Unreal Engine.

Requirements

Unreal Engine and SpeedTree users

Description

SpeedTree have a nice feature for create growth animation foliage, before was just possible use the animation for 3ds Max renders, in this course you will learn how to bring all frames of your animation to Unreal Engine and create a beautiful Growth Animation using UE4 or UE5.

This course was inpired by the making of "Noah (2014) Behind The Magic - The Visual Effects" video from youtube.

I've always want to do some VFX of SpeedTree animation to my own Projects of Unreal Engine 4, and after a Livestream of SpeedTree in his Youtube Channel about Growth Animation, i've tried again to use the features of animation to Level Sequencer of UE4 and UE5, and the result is fantastic.

Unreal Engine is a complete suite of development tools for anyone working with real-time technology. It gives creators the freedom and control, compelling visualizations, and immersive virtual worlds. UE4 - UE5 can be used in Games, Architecture, Automotive & transportation, Broadcast & live events, Film & television and more...

SpeedTree is a procedural 3D vegetation modeling for VFX and Games, was used in so many Films, TV Shows, and AAA Games like: Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefield Series, The Last of Us, Far Cry, Forza, Days Gone, Death Stranding, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Metro Exodus, Gears of War, PUBG, Escape from Tarkov, Call of Duty... and much more.

SpeedTree allow 3D artist to create with procedural tools all types of vegetation assets like: grass, plants, trees, ivy, ground foliage and with Unreal Engine we can render our Growth animation to be used in many different places especially with Games.

Who this course is for:

Game Developers

Unreal Engine & SpeedTree Growth Animation

What you'll learn

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Course content

SpeedTree2 lectures • 8min

Unreal Engine13 lectures • 1hr 12min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: