Blender - Easy Low Poly Environment in Eevee (Blender 2.8)

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a low poly environment in blender 2.8. I will go through some simple modeling tricks and some fun addons to help you along.
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[@aarohigupta2497]

This is the first thing I've ever made in blender and my god, as someone with 0 artistic skills + 0 knowledge of blender, this was quite fun to follow (even though it took me way longer than I'd thought it would)

[@Unleashed75]

Use Shift F to go into fly mode and W,A,S,D to move with Q,E for up down. Mouse wheel to change flying speed. Left and right mouse to confirm or cancel. This helps a lot for getting the camera in place.

[@TheDucky3D]

Jay sweet thank you

[@Unleashed75]

No probs but would of thought you'd know this. I thought I'd mention it for everyone else who didn't.

[@Niko-yu7bq]

@@Unleashed75 you should try clicking tab when flying

[@TrueArcadeus]

Useful comment. but for those who are using the 2.9 version, i think it's changed to Shift+ ~

[@aaronrothwell7615]

To make your trees grow straight up. In the particle system, click Advanced , then in the new section Rotation that appears, set Orientation Axis, to Global Z

[@glaril1875]

Thank you man, life saver.

[@haaappy]

THX

[@emo10001]

Was going to suggest the same

[@rambhujun8156]

Man your videos are the best, pls keep doing the easy tutorials! it's really helping me a lot! you are the best!

[@TheDucky3D]

Rambo thanks

[@Sithhy]

Man, I *LOVE* your tutorials... So intuitive & easy to follow

[@pemboart]

Something you may find useful for the rotation of the trees - rather than manually adjusting the instance object, you can check 'advanced' in the particle settings and then check 'rotation' - plenty of options within there. Helps if you have lots of objects to reference too so keeps it all clean.

[@cheukyanwan4847]

Thanks!!!! because my trees are always falling according to the terrain lol

[@brijeshanchan4931]

Mom: its dinner time........ Me: its Blender time...... 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 This low poly looks fantastic... Good job..!.

[@lucutes2936]

who needs dinner when you can model it

[@alfathmuqoddas6986]

This channel give me sense of motivation to learn blender, thank you so much!

[@alfathmuqoddas6986]

This tutorial is very simple yet the result is fantastic

[@battosaijenkins946]

@Ducky 3D, jeezus christ sorry for being over 2 years too late to discover this, but THANK YOU! You are a genius~ 👍👍

[@RitikKumar-cz8rb]

a great and simple one again . Its the flow of your voice that makes it simple. fantastic bro!

[@cheaterman49]

This is excellent! You probably want to make the trees point straight up instead of normal to the face and decrease the size randomness a bit, but considering how little time it takes, this is incredible!

[@atique2545]

I love you. I love you. What a helpful tutorial! I started blender a while back with blenderguru. Andrew is great as a teacher, I really respect him. But you are fast and you show the most important things in the least amount of time without confusing your viewers. You are just great. Keep creating awesome tutorials.

[@zac7863]

If you want to have brown stumps, select the faces on the "trunk" part of the base tree, go to materials, create a new brown one, and click assign. Make sure you have the faces selected when you do that!

[@finalmasquerade]

Yo! Thanks so much! I just started using blender & this was my first render/thing that I made straight off the bat. Although, it did take me 6ish hours, I found this tutorial easy & straight to the point. I learnt a lot here. Thank you! 😄🙏🏼

[@bruh-mx7bd]

Great tutorial as always! Your tutorials are easy to follow and show the most important stuff in blender at the same time!

[@MrZombiePhil]

Great tutorial! I Solved the tree rotation issue by turning on the "Advanced" setting, and under "Rotation" select None. That way they're all nice and uniform :)

[@santiagoshang]

I know, you have the best tutorials that I've ever seen.

[@mirk9789]

super easy to follow because your excellent pace. Will be watching more of your videos.

[@rw8785]

Great vid! Packed a lot into this, exactly what was looking for. Got a new subscriber.

[@casualworldchatcommunity5187]

Excellent Tutorial! Very easy to follow, very interesting, and very fun to watch! Thank you!!!

[@GinenTawnik]

Question: current version, 3.6, the very first menu doesn't automatically pop up.. where does one find this?

[@akash_4769]

Wow I have learned so much from you!😘 your tutorials are awesome and easy to follow, I really like 'em.

[@TheDucky3D]

Awesome Akash thank you

[@SurinderKumar-rg2gf]

Thanks for making this types of videos. Its helps me to make cool wallpapers and videos. Thank you very much

[@TheDucky3D]

Surinder Kumar glad you like it

[@slappy_chimp]

Wooow love you man. I was waiting for it 😄. Well i am going to follow the tutorial tomorrow morning.

[@TheDucky3D]

koro baloch have fun

[@toBEcharmed]

When Adding the Particles My Landscape And My Trees Are Connected When Trying To Rotate. Is There A Fix For This? Edit: Figured It Out. Forgot To Select The Tree This Tutorial Is Awesome!

[@atikahrostam5778]

Thank you so much! Now I can start making low poly landscape for game 😃

[@e75system]

I love it, easy even for me to just learn some Blender. Thank you mate

[@cedric1731]

I don't know how good other people are with blender but you make pros out of us noobs. Or at least it seems like it because we get nice results :D

[@antrikshamaudgal2996]

best tutorial in my opinion

[@luccadanielp7563]

really cool, nice low poly environment

[@TheDucky3D]

Lucca Dániel thanks

[@yavalang]

As always, excellent tutorial. thank you!

[@silverformonsters2190]

just had dinner,now going to have the desert in the form of this video

[@moshifoxthekumquatlover5089]

The landscape options didn't pop up for me?

[@junuisart]

Love your videos, really helped me a lot

[@arjunvenugopal4763]

Your videos are very satisfying to watch 👌👌👌

[@sparshsukralia9791]

This is absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing

[@morgholoth]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@barryryan5187]

this is so helpful for a beginner, thanks!

[@blenderzone5446]

wonderful tutorial! so great!

[@manabendramahato8534]

Looks awesome nice one again😋.Also Nathan can u do some tutorials on FX😖 it's just that everyone likes destroying thing I think a lot of us will surely like it

[@TheDucky3D]

Jardians Alan I’ll see what I can do

[@manabendramahato8534]

@@TheDucky3Dur the best..😆

[@ArdaRen]

Love your tutorials !

[@TheDucky3D]

Yhiira thanks

[@deadspirit6]

Awesome..learnt a lot from this..really cool.

[@pasandodetodito]

omg this tutorial is marvelous! thankyouuuu!!!

[@krosshj]

Thanks for your video, I learned much

[@thesharkox729]

I will definitely try on this... Subscribed!

[@seem2bone73]

Thank you for your tutorials!👍

[@PolygonIsland]

Awesome, love low poly stuff.

[@patrickedwards2078]

WTH I loose track for like 3 weeks or so and you've doubled your subscribers!

[@Jackwarriorgaming]

Hey, still getting used to Blender and love this tutorial. Just wondering at 1:50 what do you hit to allow you to click to adjust your camera view with a click and drag? Thanks!

[@discreet_boson]

For camera view, click the camera button in top right or 0 on numpad. Click n for the menu, go to view, enable lock camera to view. Just use shift+ middle mouse button to drag and middle mouse button to pan. Shift + f for walk navigation, use wasd. In 2.8, shift f is not the default shortcut. Go see a tutorial for that.

[@icedicefilms]

Quick and easy Love that! 💓

[@K1ran_]

Thank you so much! this is so helpful!

[@smartbo9890]

Thank’s so much. That’s help me so much.

[@KINGMOONKINGEMOCRAZY]

thank you so much man you are an angel

[@greendholia5206]

excuse me mr duck in the beginning you said you were going to use mountain preset but you actually used lakes 2 operator preset, thank you sir

[@thetoonsclause]

excellent tutorial. thank you

[@SaathvikSheerla]

Awesome tuts .. Really great bro

[@TechGameLive2905]

Woah that's really nice

[@TheDucky3D]

Tech Game Live thanks

[@aleksandars9254]

A little addition that i added (i guess im bragging) u can duplicate ur tree and on the duplicate make the top cone white so it looks like its snow on it... :D Thanks for the tut its amazing!

[@ivanmezcua]

Thanks for ALL the info! ¡Gracias!

[@GuyEinhoren]

What an awsome tutorial

[@paulomoreira5268]

Thanks for the tutorial !!

[@WouldBecomeRocker]

Thanks for the tutorial, I was wondering why you're optimizing a lot your workflow but not using shortcuts like "S" then "Z" to scale on the Z-axis ? You're clicking directly in the parameters and I found that surprising as shortcuts are... shorter ? Haha, cheers

[@pradeeptadas7157]

it's awesome .... BUT.... just wanna point out that the hdri sun light and the scene sun light do not go with each other ..... no hate just wanna point it out.

[@pradeeptadas7157]

and also the problem will be that the hdri will emit sunlight from the back of the sphere which will cast shadow on the plane so................. I dont know what to do

[@santiagovelezsaffon]

That was so cool!

[@wanniebae9052]

thanks you

[@SJ98296]

You say "Mountain 2" but you clicked on "Lakes 2". Just a little clarification for those following along. The lakes presets are the ones with two meshes.

[@jai49b]

This is amazing, thank you soooo much

[@nestornicolas79]

Buenisimo, sigo todo lo que subis!

[@heavybaguette]

Merci ! je savais pas pour l'Add-on !

[@fatihezer2419]

very nice i loved this

[@thedandelionranger]

Cool Ducky

[@SteelShadowAnimations]

Awesome 👏

[@ktnbw2507]

one suggestion, you should render in cycles with default world( give little dark blue background) gives you better result than eevee,,,! try it

[@NewMateo]

so wheneve rI write click no pop up menu comes up. Also my UI looks totally different from yours is there any UUI settings I should fix up or options before doing this. This is my first tutorial.

[@voracdesign]

Great tutorial!!

[@NvnWijesinghe]

Thank you so much 🔥🔥🔥

[@ananthanarayananr9176]

Awesome 👍

[@f1nn3rs]

so helpful tysm

[@animationcrust1993]

Its soo cool 😎

[@ernovonschwiegenau9696]

thank youi for the tutorial

[@FarhadGuli]

great bro. thanks from iraq .

[@bogdanmilojevic9960]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[@venkadaganapathy2385]

This Video Is Very Useful :)

[@ZGRblx]

its awesome keep it up

[@Paul-ci9eb]

When I first place the landscape, my left tool menu doesn't show up like yours. There is no Operator presets. Is there something I need to do to enable that menu to show up?

[@joebot001]

Hey Paul. I had this problem at first too, I eventually found the window for this tool was minimized in the lower left corner of Blender, called "Another Noise Tool - Lan" Just hit the arrow on that little box to expand it upward. GL!

[@vonluismendoza8383]

Thank you so much!

[@davebv]

Awesome!

[@sharwinharkal9933]

If possible can u use the thing where we can see which buttons u are clicking on the lower corners

[@BartMassee]

love this. digital happy tree.

[@vazak11]

Amazing!

[@fuzokuhlemagudulela6850]

Great tutorial as always! ❤ Can I ask why you added the icosphere and subdivided it so it looks like a sphere? wouldn't be easier if you just added a sphere?

[@discreet_boson]

For topological reasons. It doesn't apply here but is a good habit for later. In edit mode, icosphere has even topology everywhere. A uv sphere's topological faces are squished at the poles and larger in the middle. This makes it hard for sculpting/modeling later

[@lucutes2936]

good job!!!

[@avexoidavex3577]

Thank you for tutorial! Tell ma please. Some trees are not in an upright position. How to fix this?

[@pavanbhadaja8859]

Awesome. I want to ask you that in thumbnail Render did you use any point or area lights??cause it has blue tint in background mountains or it's just postprocessing

[@TheDucky3D]

Pavan Bhadaja nope

[@DanMorose]

Hm. I'm loving your tutorials, but things seem to be different a lot of the time. For instance, you right click to change to shade smooth, I try it and it just moves the little crosshair. My menu system also doesn't look as efficient as yours (my object options are always on the left, rather then popping up contextually as they seem to do for you!). Do you have a video anywhere on how to set up a better workflow? That would be really helpful! Great videos though! Very easy to follow. Only frustration is some things don't seem to work the same as they do for you, even though we are using the same version of Blender (which has nothing to do with you).

[@Kaaso]

When i select hair its just in the middle of the landscape. someone help please

[@jasjappansingh2170]

having the same problem??

[@varvitos]

a simple fix i found is go to the hair settings -> Children -> change it to "Interpolated"

[@vonluismendoza8383]

@@varvitos Thank you so muuuuuuchhhhh

[@qwerbeet447]

@@varvitos damn dude ur such a savior thanks

[@beedyi13]

My operator presets are not showing, help anyone?

[@kabba4575]

did you figure this out im also having the same issue

[@leonardluwang]

@@kabba4575 If you are on 2.8 or 2.81 it is down below on the bottom left corner you just need to click on it to expand it. It shows as soon as you add the landscape if you click out of it, it just disappears I haven't found a reason for that yet.

it was hidden on the top right for me. drag the arrow to expand the menu

[@queenofcraft4829]

@@leonardluwang it really worked

[@ludidong6609]

@@leonardluwang Does the operator have an icon or something? Even when I add the landscape, the operator panel doesn't show itself.

[@Bottlenosedolphin_]

Great tutorial and I learn a lot from this as a beginner, but when I press C to paint the vertices like you do at 7:30 I cannot rotate my scene at all when I want to select my mountain vertices? And I can't select any other tools when I'm in the painting vertex mode... Can somebody help :/ I'm stuck in that stage

[@random_frog1647]

This was a super helpful tutorial, but for some reason my trees are below my plane, do you know how I can fix this?

[@ButterHaus420]

I have the same problem, they're all bunched up into a ball

[@ashhowell2293]

yup still broken