Lynda - Maya: Natural Environmentshttps://www.lynda.com/3D-Animation-tutorials/Maya-Natural-Environments/2849187-2.htmlRepresenting the natural world in a 3D program can be a...
Topics include:
Layout for 360 and camera-centric scenes
Applying appropriate scale, grid, and camera settings
Building backdrop spheres, planes, and cubic environments
Creating a landscape with a height map
Generating a terrain with procedural textures
Painting and sculpting polygon geometry
Generating entourage objects with Paint Effects
Instancing massive numbers of primitives with XGen
Scripting XGen attributes with the SeExpr...