Create A Quick Sci-Fi City - Blender 2.9 Tutorial

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Hey, everyone, in this tutorial, I go over how to create a quick sci-fi city using the scatter add-on. Also, just a heads up that this is an intermediate tutorial and isn't a follow-along tutorial so you'll likely have to pause the video a couple times. I hope this is useful!
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[@mindofgabe]

2:16 If you are having trouble getting the cube project to work, just make sure after you select all the faces, press "U" and then it'll show "cube projection" and just click that :D

[@usxnews1834]

thanks!

[@smilemusicstudios]

Thanks a lot !

[@ethan_ls27]

bro SAVED ME

[@CGLife]

Wow this is perfect i'm planning on making a city as part of my next project

[@PopNerdStudio]

Sweet! I hope this helps to create your city!

[@lukaz2040]

I was about to give up on a project because I thought making a sci fi city just for a background would take waaayyy too long. You inspired me to go for it. Thank you!!

[@vive335]

This was breathtaking. I've never been so happy before, like this city I've never made before and after adding the fog it literally looked STUNNING

[@alvabjorkeblad7903]

dude, please don't stop making tutorials, you have really inspired me and I love your ideas!! this is awesome!

[@SuperPandas2]

I just start learning blender a few day ago and for me that is impressive, thx for this tutorial

[@fullyleaded]

Wow ! Great tutorial. I didnt realise how how effective the built-in scatter was. This is amazing!

[@coolzack1012]

easy to follow and nice end result! I made my own twist on the tutorial. amazing what one texture can do

[@user-ic5gr7kz1l]

Wow... What a amazing tutorial! That's so cool!

[@guido.degenaro]

LMAO brother I love how you let out a little laugh at 3:03 and decided to leave it in the final video. You just got yourself a new subscriber

[@andyklyen6885]

Thank you - so well explained and useful

[@parkerbelholland1037]

Wow, randomize transform, who knew? Even after years using Blender, something new every day, thanks.

[@bitspacemusic]

Adding short DOF on a scenery will make it look like a scale model. Your brain is used to having everything sharp at that distance and will see it as something small because of the blur. It's not always bad, but something to remember if you want it to look like a realistic photo.

[@PopNerdStudio]

You're definitely right. I enjoy using lots of DOF to give scenes more depth to make them more interesting but too much of it is not ideal for photorealistic renders.

[@marcusanimation100]

True, although defocussing some objects that are very close to the camera is still physically correct, and will add depth to your image.

[@PopNerdStudio]

If you use this tutorial & post your work on Instagram, tag me @astronautalpaca on the post and I'll share your post on my story! I'm also starting to use the community tab a lot more so make sure to check that out if you want to vote for future tutorials and check in on any updates!

[@nightowledits5708]

next video ...apocalyptic city like in the movie iam legend pleaseeeeeeeeeee

[@PopNerdStudio]

@@nightowledits5708 Ian Hubert has a great apocalyptic city tutorial - you could use that to create some buildings and use the same scatter method from this video to create a quick city

[@nightowledits5708]

@@PopNerdStudio that guy is fast AF 🤣 I couldn't keep up. I hope you will make a seperate tutorial for this one.... Anyways I'm gonna give it shot... You never know what you can achieve before you don't achieve it.

[@cristir3463]

wow, this was super helpful and easy to follow, thanks a lot!

[@xorasanorg]

beautiful work. your narration/voice is soothing and easy to follow.

[@Clydacious]

Excellent tutorial fella!

[@sancezramon]

This is sick man, keep up the good work !!

[@cleverpete1]

This is great ! Nice tutorial

[@dannyhalley]

this is poggers

[@ClearTheRubble7]

Excellent and very cool! I'm working on a game that works on both PC/macOS and webXR, so I need to keep everything low-poly. I've been using tutorials like yours (for developing complex-geometry cities, landscapes, caverns, etc.) and converting the results into screenshot skybox backgrounds--and you've given me some great ideas for my next skybox.🤠

[@rinathamidulin3781]

Thanks for the breakdown, the Scatter plug-in I will defenetely use in future project. Just a tip - the first thing I noticed when I saw the final render (and what broke the illusion actually), is that the cars all look the same, more variety in shape and maybe color would help to sell the picture.

[@PopNerdStudio]

Thanks for the feedback! I created that scene as a concept for a short film that I'm working on so I'll definitely keep that in mind while creating the final product.

[@harshitrao8729]

This is so great This video needs more views

[@HaikuTutorials]

Wow. Incredible video, mate!!

[@godfreyosese7717]

Ayyyy Thanks for helping get to know the Software! I just downloaded it in hopes of making resetupes and originals. Props to you for

[@PaintingTutorials-im2lf]

Thanks for the amazing tutorial!

[@mitsukiyouko]

woah!! this is exactly what i was looking for :D thanks!

[@yonnachammas3620]

amazing tutorial thankyou please do more of those 5 minutes tutorials

[@wmp3920]

Amazing and quick !! Thanks you

[@italocampos9344]

wow! Nice tutorial!

[@5hree]

this is awesome!

[@simonlu5141]

This vid was great, thanks for making it

[@Lex33567]

wow this is amazing!

[@tsunchoo]

Real nice tutorial. Depth of Field often makes things look like models to me - that's how lens in the real world work - over a certain distance everything would be in focus (infinity) so in a scene like this really nothing would be out of focus - at least not caused by the lens so adding DoF afterwards just makes the scene look like a model - or in your case i think it makes it look like it's an animation and it's not trying to be a real scene - which works really nicely, it could be a scene for a sci-fi story based on a graphic novel for instance. I personally prefer using Blender to create scenes which are not supposed to be hyper real

[@saturn7603]

wow! amazing tutorial - thank u! :)

[@neversaydiegaming4868]

DUDE! Thanks this was awesome!

[@firippu2808]

wow that was an insane tutorial

[@mkjb8331]

So good!

[@ehnmusik]

bro this is great learn a lot ! thanks

[@spaceenemiesnovel]

Great tutorial.

[@hamsolo4878]

you're goated.

[@MTOcreations]

Can we please pleaseee get a tutorial on the flying car traffic And the most efficient way to achieve it ?

[@tatemink1343]

this was the most helpfull video yet

[@tgm2714]

Thank you for the tutorial, it really helped me.

[@PopNerdStudio]

Glad it was helpful! I'll be posting more environment design stuff soon :)

[@aerohighcross2650]

3.39 press ENTER ,to view the building in scattered position

[@UHStudio]

Really nice and succinct tutorial! Thanks! 👍👍

[@PopNerdStudio]

Thank you! You have lots of awesome tutorials as well!!

[@alexandrek.9669]

So impressed

[@InkRebellion]

love your style popnerd 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@miwave]

Oh! this is perfect. I own my city.

[@josehernandez5080]

Buen video, nuevo suscriptor.

[@francescodeluk5522]

this is so nice! im using it to make a background for a grase pencil animation! still trying to figure out how to add the sky texture background and a couple of other things tho. I'm guessing that the little spaceships are just a collection following a curve.

[@PopNerdStudio]

Glad this was helpful! I just duplicated a bunch of cars and keyframed the cars lol but yeah a collection following a curve would be much more efficient hahah

[@kasly___8257]

good tutorial!

[@user-gq9gy9ty9r]

lol tnx for the tutorial really helpful :)

[@Ryan-geeves]

Great tutorial, scatter objects addon looks real useful. A bit curious about your default cubes, they seem to have edge highlights and shadows unlike the standard is it some kind of addon?

[@PopNerdStudio]

You can easily enable the cavity/color in the viewport display settings! Here are the settings I used in this tutorial: imgur.com/BrRBTgY

[@usxnews1834]

@@PopNerdStudio thanks!

[@anthonyaustin7826]

Hi, great tutorial! I was wondering what I would need to do if I was to do this in eevee?

[@dlunario23]

wow nice

[@parkersmith3727]

great video

[@maestrom6530]

Thank you, just tnx

[@akonimation]

nice!

[@dasodesign2593]

Legend.

[@mokhmokhmokhmokh4029]

Pro content , so this is how it feels when you are a pro

[@deancreate]

Cool!

[@marcorubio8377]

awesome

[@meversion2.0o86]

how do you get the buildings to show up exactly where you draw the scatter line? I can put a line in the middle of the plane and the buildings will go 50m away/around that line, but never on the actual line that I drew

[@gmvid7211]

Thank.you the tutorial

[@rihardssmits2505]

how did you make uv's in form of a building? after doing cube projection all the stuff from my building did not group like that.. like each part is living it's own life and does not make a form of a building.

[@bfliving8018]

awesome tutorial man! for some reason everytime after i try to scatter on a basic plane it keeps rotating the buildings even with rotation and normal rotations off. any ideas??

[@fusion325]

Awesome tutorial, but how did you get those smoky clouds at the beginning and end of the video?

[@Rickynovantotto]

if only i had seen this 2 weeks ago :')

[@josevelasco2197]

what would be the ideal plane size so it looks like a big citylike yours ??? thanks

[@kidzula]

Awesome tutorial! One question though. What is the difference between using the scatter add-on and using a particle system with weight painting?

[@PopNerdStudio]

Using a particle system definitely gives you more control but I would say it's overkill in most cases - scatter objects is just a lot more simple imo

[@getoveritadventures1861]

How do i setup my default to look like that? with the red matt texture

[@vive335]

In the beginning, how did you extrude the block without the annoying lines? If I grab and elongate the object becomes distorted. but the lines where I extruded are visible

[@kindman9974]

Ive had the issue of some of the buildings floating mid air, is there anyway to fix this?

[@juancastro3589]

If it is intriguing to you, you won't be forgetting it easily

[@SamyadeepPurkayastha]

5:47 how did you get the flying cars to move in a straight line?

[@himanshupandey199]

how to scale the building in uv editor? i tried but it didn't happen, can anyone please tell me how is this possible.

[@heresy970]

hey, great tutorial, but when i draw with the scatter brush the buildings dont come up?even after selecting the buildings then selecting the plane?

[@ashleymurphyfilms]

mine won't show up either. did you figure it out?

[@agoogleuser2378]

Can you make a more detailed video for beginners😊

[@Soofresh12]

how did he put the building on the UVMap area ?

[@afroninjawrld]

Afro Ninja approved 🥷🏾🤙🏾

[@Neo-cf5vd]

how do we add the flying cars bro :( thank you

[@vive335]

at 4:44, four minutes, you mentioned for Emission Strength to be 0.003, but wrote 0.004 instead, would there be a difference?

[@woritsez]

hmmm. good one.

[@PopNerdStudio]

Thanks!

[@bhushanmaghade6298]

Nice video👍🏻, btw I have a general question. What should be the specifications of a Laptop to create these animations on blender???

[@mydee2802]

Blender is a highly optimised software so it doesn't require high end pc a potato pc will work

[@izsogood]

When I scatter buildings, they are not upright. anyone knows how to fix this?

[@ashborn7688]

2:29 Nothing appear when I open the UV editor, there are no nodes why ?

[@TheMinime11222]

for some reason when using Randomize Transform, the objects come off the main buildings surface and float in mid air, any help?

[@kindman9974]

What I found is that it somehow duplicates with the first buildings you modeled, and you just need to raise those, it doesn't 100% fix it but it helps

[@dailizer1569]

Good video

[@PopNerdStudio]

Thanks!!

[@blackjack5872]

@@PopNerdStudio it’s to fast 😓😓😓😭

[@xabi_3]

I can't adjust the textures by scaling like you do at 2:25, I see de texture image on the UV editor but I can't adjust my object, any clue on what am I missing? I think I've followed every step on the video until then. Anyway, nice video and thank you for sharing it!

[@PopNerdStudio]

Make sure to press "A" in the UV editor tab to select all the vertices to adjust them. Glad you like the video, hopefully this helps!

[@xabi_3]

@@PopNerdStudio Yes, that was the problem; thanks for the answer. This kind of tutorials are really usefull for newbies like me!

[@bordbord123]

i got to the drawing on the plate part but they are are purple blocs with a orange line. how do i make them turn into the buildings???

[@PopNerdStudio]

Just press the enter key and that should apply the scatter objects

[@SamyadeepPurkayastha]

@@PopNerdStudio nothing is happening on pressing Enter

[@tusharkashyap2431]

@@SamyadeepPurkayastha try function key+enter

[@kxhmxrtin6008]

if you don't find the object scatter pressing f3, go to preferences addons and search for scatter, mark the box and enjoy!

[@BalaDM]

Wow! That's Amazing. But it is too fast 🙄, Even though It is 0.25. Other than that, You are a Legend 😤

[@cyrussasu28]

Pls can I get same for bge

[@NTHNGLIKEDEEZ]

hi is it possible make this with a macbook pro m1 2020 or a windows laptop? any specifications? thank you!

[@adedhuman9582]

It is possible. Generally you can run blender on almost any standard laptops out there but theyre hindered by their graphics card during rendering , which for you isnt the case :)

[@NTHNGLIKEDEEZ]

@@adedhuman9582 really? i thought macs had a very poor gpu. thank u man.

[@ddggfggghhd5654]

Newbie here, for those struggling with the cube/fog not showing. I think its render - cycles, not eevee

[@sidnivlakcomics2614]

may u can make it slow

[@andyklyen6885]

Actually I've found quite a few problems with the scatter tool. The density won't adjust correctly = 0.1 too few / 0.2 too many / close and the scatter tool seems to remember the previous scatters so it's scattering objects that aren't selected. Am I missing something? Is there are scatter reset?

[@andyklyen6885]

As an experiment I've just started a new scene with new objects and scattered them and Scatter is still scattering the objects from your tutorial. I'll try restarting Blender

[@andyklyen6885]

Yep - restarting Blender solved the problem - some kind caching problem with scatter?

[@PopNerdStudio]

@@andyklyen6885 Huh, I've never encountered this problem before - that's weird. I would recommend maybe scaling up your plane if you encounter this problem again.

[@corimyers4985]

How about the animated part?

[@PopNerdStudio]

I just modeled a simple car model and used keyframing to animate them. You can read more here: docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/animation/keyframes/index.html

[@Fitzliputzli23]

Fog is great but DOF makes the whole thing apear small scale.