How to Generate a Tree with a Looping Wind Animation in Blender

[@uzairbukhari99]

Truly one of the best blender teachers ever. Best shortcuts and life saving tutorials. God bless you man!

[@BlenderDaily]

hey thanks, glad you think so!

[@tusharmaurya493]

@@BlenderDaily 👍🏻good work

[@gunnarbennemann7849]

THX Nik! I usually like your patient and uncomplicated tutorials. The shading part left absolutely nothing to be desired.

[@BlenderDaily]

Thank you for your nice words!

[@passaggi3991]

Waaawwww , step by step . not too fast or too slow , clear enough to follow . thank you for making and sharing this tutor for free . I enjoy it . and very useful Good luck . . . . .

[@MrZombiePhil]

I'm so happy I found your channel. I'm still a beginner and this tutorial has helped me immensely. Great way to add some realism.

[@BlenderDaily]

Happy to have you here, Phil!

[@lucyfaire1980]

I love your tutorials because they are project based and I learn many useful tips, other than the main subject. Thanks so much and greetings from Greece

[@BlenderDaily]

Nice to hear!

[@chasgiv4]

For anyone else struggling with this or had to make their own and have no idea why the black part of the leaf keeps showing up. Go to the materials tab on the right for the leaves and under settings you need to change the blend mode and shadow mode to alpha clip.

[@RamziCaan]

Thx man for your Help!!!

[@simongarrettmusic]

Cheers, got stuck on that - just wondering how that didn't work in the tutorial, because he'd just made a New Material - is that not set by default?

[@chasgiv4]

@@simongarrettmusic Dunno but I always have problems with tutorials on youtube leaving necessary processes out. Often these guru's have adjusted many things over time while making other products/videos and it was a minor oversight but to us, it caused the whole process to fail.

[@sadworldwide]

Nothing happened when I changed it :(

[@1neeye]

Bro uh saved me

[@mbarupa]

Hats off! So many simple node tricks in one fell swoop.

[@nareshg1842]

Among the best sapling tutorials! Incredibly useful. Thanks!!

[@roxaszy984]

some people call me a professional modeler now, but all i do is if ever there is a chance to do it lazy like sapling tree gen addon, i will do it and while i indeed may be a professional on some front, information like this is completely new to me and since i know so much already from over 2 thousand hours of blender for the last year, it's much more easy to follow. good tutorial, solved the exact idea i had but one thing that i will test on my own is if animated trees are actually animated after turning them from curve to mesh

[@masteredd23]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! Exactly what i needed for my current project. I found out, that the "random per island"-Function currently doesn't work in EEVEE. I therefore used the Texture Coordinate - Normal Output to control the Hue-Value which gave similar results (if anyone else is struggeling with this step in EEVEE). Edit: oh I saw that you mentioned that at the end of the video. Somehow it also just works on the front-side of the leaves, not on the back-side

[@BlenderDaily]

That's a great solution!

[@gurubhaitube]

Highest quality explained...... seriously 👍

[@BlenderDaily]

Thanks a ton

[@udayashankar9928]

Thanks!! ,bet no one else could explain this stuff to complete beginners (like me.)😃😉

[@damiensummers2764]

I'd love to see the "helicopter landing in a field effect, with like a whole row of tree's in the middle of nowhere" enthusiasm, for endless computer render time in your tutorial.

[@vijithasenadeera7576]

your tutorial is very good i learn lot of things . thank you for sharing your knowladge with us .

[@RecNinja]

Very nice!

[@BlenderDaily]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@hendriksahertian5525]

this is pure gold

[@vasiapupkin6446]

Damn, dude! This is absolutely outstanding bullsh*t-free tutorial! Kudos!

[@BlenderDaily]

glad to hear that, thank you Vasia!

[@blendermonke]

That tree be looking pretty good

[@jeffdavies2824]

Very cool. I had no idea this addon event existed. Great tutorial!

[@BlenderDaily]

Yeah, it is a great add-on I just found out about a few weeks ago. Thanks Jeff!

[@TRANSISTOOR]

Brilliant tutorial

[@deepmalawadhwa9899]

Thank you so much for such a detailed tutorial

[@stephenbrown7924]

Great Tutorial! Looking forward to more!

[@wernerbros8099]

Thanks Nik, this was very useful :)

[@BlenderDaily]

Thank you so much!

[@sriharivaila7276]

You can add translucency to leaves to make it more realistic especially if it is a green leaves it makes them more realistic.

[@heaven81100]

Now i am thinking to come back from Lumion. Great Work.

[@jongkyuda1]

Great tutorial!! But "Sapling : Add Tree" menu does not appear in the lower left corner. How do I find it?

[@baedou1243]

bruh you are amazingggg

[@BlenderDaily]

thanks Arubito!

[@user-50fvi58djr0]

Great tutorial, thnx a lot!

[@RobJYeo]

So useful, concise and easy to follow - thank you!

[@BlenderDaily]

hey Rob, happy to hear that!

[@starsandsandproductions1592]

Great tutorial Man!

[@BlenderDaily]

thanks!

[@sahebfahmi]

It is so interesting and taught me how to use this add-on. Thank you very much good man

[@tituswatson5721]

This was very helpful. Thanks!

[@BlenderDaily]

happy to hear that, thanks Titus!

[@NawadaKMuharram]

Thanks It is very helpful video for me

[@crazyking2013]

Thank you dude, this was a wonderful find

[@Farrukh3D]

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@BlenderDaily]

Glad it was helpful:)

[@prajwalanimations2376]

this helped me so much man. thank you....

[@BlenderDaily]

nice to hear! thanks Prajwal

[@zeliglim778]

So many useful things here! Omg I can’t even remember

[@evarahman9714]

this video is too helpful.Thank you so much ❤❤

[@simeonsokerov1988]

Thanks! It helped me. Clear and on point.

[@bwoplover]

For some reason I can't get the opacity map to actually contour the shape of the leaf? Not sure why it doesn't work

[@tamarplotzker5231]

Same, did you figure out why?

[@quangaovu503]

so great

[@MancoBlanco]

INSANE

[@II-er7gj]

Awesome, bro! Please do more videos like these ones!

[@blastercreations3487]

Very useful video. ❤👌

[@kelthekonqrr]

I really loved this!!!

[@Puru_VFX]

nice explain

[@Relax-kb7tf]

Hi, great tutorial. And btw how do animation with this tree ? Please make it tutorial for tree animation from free sampling tree

[@kubanowskyy]

Great!

[@rhopinu]

The snow/winter! another excuse to not go outside and take that leaf picture :D

[@BlenderDaily]

yeah that’s the reason:)

[@krushipatel7720]

thanks

[@kelthekonqrr]

I loved this so much!!!

[@thawapriven]

Thanks bro

[@tedmatsushita1542]

Amazing. Thank you for making this!!

[@alexmehler6765]

really good tutorial very nice

[@BlenderDaily]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Cutesho]

Why “Sapling Add Tree” panel close when I click my mouse

[@sunnybwoy4547]

where is the part about thelooping animation?

[@jarucgi4097]

Amazing, thanks a lot for sharing!

[@mrcleglaw256]

this incredibly informative, especially with node setups, and the way we see different nodes taking effect on scene. brilliant! edit: sooooo random per island setup for color variation, doesnt work. it randomly selecets a value and applies that value to all the leaves together instead of random per island. how to make this cool effect now? im using blender 4, this gotta be about version that im using.

[@kulewa1]

Agree with this. I had the same result. The effect only goes to the leaves as a whole, not the individuals.

[@detudonobau4833]

This is fantastic! Thank you so much!

[@xyzlb]

This is great !! can you pls make a tutorial for exporting this tree animation? my exported model is static.

[@aranganr]

Great tutorial. Thanks a lot

[@malisa5742]

I love this video thanks a lot

[@annaarnold7683]

danke sehr! es war sehr Hilfsreich

[@lgoritme]

any tips how to animated tree from asset store? like prebuild tree.

[@teeambird2079]

could anyone explain the rigid body collision setup for a willow tree dragging along the ground? The leaves are going through the ground

[@classicalandexperimentalmu320]

I really liked this and want to use it. I am new to blender and downloaded it this morning. But when I go to the add-on menu, there is no trees there. Where can I find it? In your descriptions you say: "free and preinstalled Blender add-on"

[@UnchartedWorlds]

11:26 But how was wind animation done? I've come to see this :)

[@mahimsud]

hi, can i export this tree as fbx to use in other software with the animation?

[@dylanmelotti4301]

Are we able to import an animated tree into Unreal Engine 5? How so?

[@Abhaysharma95821]

Pls can anyone help me,my final rendered video is to fast and when i slow down speed it starts laggging ,i mean to say that its not so smooth like wind is blowing smoothly,it is shaking vigorously

[@RaMRreezZii]

Hi!! This is awesome, but I have one problem, I want to export the tree to another program. How can I do that? I'm new at all this stuff, I ve tried to exported into fbx but I don't know if a need to do something else before because nothing was visible. Thanks for everything

[@faraboyg4849]

This the best tutorial nice try bro

[@viliamkotoc6511]

do you know how to export this tree with animation to unreal engine 4 ?

[@arise3494]

How to export the animated tree and put it in UE5?

[@EvilSquad2010]

yo how u do bark shading

[@sadworldwide]

If you are still having issues with the leaves appearing black, make sure to go into your render settings and increase your transparent light bounces to around 128+.

[@JA-em5jr]

Is there a simple way to make the tree changes colors to reflect seasons over the animation?

[@BlenderDaily]

you could try to use the hue saturation value node in the leaf shader and shift the hue

[@bigyanshrestha603]

7:50 My Problem is that it show dark background behind the leaves.........By the way greatest tutorial ever......

[@slchampion3682]

Switch the render engine from evee to cycles

[@sergeylebedev1052]

@@slchampion3682 Thank you!

[@bouakonstantina9986]

--SOLVED-- Hi, thanks for the good video! Any idea why i can't add the textures of the leaves?? I press the import button but nothing gets imported. The node Wrangler is on.

[@EvilSquad2010]

blender daily when i do shift ctrl t it does nothing wheni checked the node wrangler is on but still idk whats happening after i do shift ctrl t it show my files belnder daily pls help me

[@bouakonstantina9986]

Hey dude! Have the same issue. Can't import the textures while yesterday could. Did you found the problem?

[@EvilSquad2010]

@@bouakonstantina9986 no I didn’t

[@bouakonstantina9986]

@@EvilSquad2010 I did it! When you create the new material, a green and a red box appear. You have to check the principled BSDF box and then control shift on it .This way it lets you import the textures.

[@EvilSquad2010]

@@bouakonstantina9986 how to u chekc the BSDF box

[@bouakonstantina9986]

@@EvilSquad2010 sorry! not check! select the box and then hit control shift.

[@erwinbroekhuis]

With this amount of leaves, I’m guessing it’s not suitable for using it in a game engine? Does sapling have options to generate lower poly count leaves, using bigger and less amount of planes?

[@thesteaksaignant]

you can create less planes and make them branches instead of leaves. You download or create a texture for an entire (small) branch containing a dozen of leaves, and use that instead of the single leaf texture. if you do that, reduce the number of branches of the initial tree, since this technique is going to add more.

[@tamilarasisubramanian1219]

Hi Nick... im new to blender and very much interested using blender SW in my videos... i want to know how to set a mountain or a tree in my own video... can u teach me with a tutorial??

[@BlenderDaily]

You want to place a tree in a real video shot on a camera, did I understand that right?

[@tamilarasisubramanian1219]

@@BlenderDaily yeah... u r rite nick...

[@pixl_gaming6667]

Hey bro where r u from ? I want to learn blender. Can u help me !!

[@kalinaglow]

The disable scene world doesn't do anything for me. Why? The tree remains white and fake looking (unlike the more rendered look in t his tutorial). It gives me more options that are not shown here when I de-select the scene world like "rotation", "strength", "world opacity" and a little scroll menu with some different worlds I guess... could it be a newer version of Blender? I've never used it before so I am a complete beginner to this.

[@HarunRashid._.]

❤

[@OtherPeople159]

it doesnt move anymore after converting the tree to mesh

[@JustinS06]

I've been following this tutorial for the past 4 hours. The leaf textures are partially black and it just looks weird. I have the same textures and the exact same nodes and settings. This tutorial is probably outdated

[@maxwei3689]

Hi, How can I export an Animation? (Keyframes for gltf)

[@mihintai8166]

image render is working but animation render doesnt why???

[@Willow_and_Sage]

I keep getting a python error that knocks me out of the panel to animate.

[@matanchesler]

Am I the only one who missed the part on how to actually create the animation? I don't quite understand... I followed your instructions step by step, and the only things you seem to do with the nodes are related to textures and colors. Just a moment later, you mentioned 'and this is the complete tree with animation.' How do I actually create the animation??

[@UnchartedWorlds]

it was a clickbait title for all of us who would search "animate sapling addon tree blender" and he sure got us to see the whole video for nothing :D

[@sanjayprajapati3540]

PErfect

[@v.s.a3826]

Sir please smile a bit.

[@behruzbekmurodov6446]

too much nodes I got confused

[@subhojeetmitra419]

How to animate tree

[@ahmetomercicek5848]

txh

[@maturazfizyki4665]

Great tutorial! Thanks !

[@OakleyAndGrace]

How could I export this model?

[@Guitars-Gear-Music]

Great tutorial! Thanks.