Moonscapes User Guide

[@AlexP-ep9ud]

Took me a bit to figure this out so I thought I'd share some of the details of the video I missed at first. Troubleshooting tips: [I'm using Blender 2.93.6] - In the beginning when you scale the plane x50 make sure you are IN Edit mode. - After you add the "Subdivision Surface" modifier, make sure you drag it to be ABOVE the "Displacement" modifier in the modifier list/hierarchy.

[@t0mhann3n]

If you get a crazy mountain as soon as you add the first texture, and you don't know why, it's because you didn't scale up in Edit Mode. Many thanks!

[@Karabanka]

Real things never get enough value. This tutorial is what I've been looking for for years.

[@davidaragones2659]

You are a real treasure for this community, thanks!

[@radoman1234]

Thanks for share. My PC is not so happy although.

[@tusharrajpoot9170]

Thankyou so much for providing it for free. I really appreciate it.

[@augm3nt384]

Superb Midge .. Cant wait for you to get your hands into Geometry Nodes !!

[@sadicus]

16k Sold! so cool, thanks for the tutorials!

[@danielnewton2390]

I can't wait for the day that my computer can handle these files!

[@tomasmanrique400]

You have a new fan! Your work is SIMPLY outstanding. Thank you for sharing all this files and knowledge! I will be checking all your videos!

[@dodaexploda]

I used the free version of this in my project. But I just purchased the paid version to help show support. This moonscape really made my project pop.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Thanks, I appreciate your support!

[@dodaexploda]

@@MidgeSinnaeve no problemo. Thank you for making the asset and having a good quality version for free. It really helped me out.

[@AnimatedLoopHD]

This looks pretty great! I want to add this effect to a tunnel

[@dev1l972]

3:51 can you please tell how you delete the second tab material because wen i try it delete upper one also

[@SHIVAM.M.S]

All time great #mantissa Thank you so much for everything you do for the community!

[@JonVlogs123]

Nice work! :)

[@darko.v]

Awesome, keep up the awesome work.

[@jonathanmarcelthome]

This looks amazing! Thank you for all you do.

[@kissgz_1973]

Wow, thanks so much! You're the man.

[@Smuglu]

Aww, tried to follow carefully step by step, but at 05:29 the displacement scale didn't change anything in my viewport and the display map looks bit "pixelated" even though I use cycles. Seems to be a common error in Eevee but shouldn't happen in cycles.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Hmm, weird. Do you have the texture scale limit set in your preferences?

[@JPJosefPictures]

Did you activate "Displacement and Bump" in the Settings Menu of your Material?

[@harringtonday5319]

Amazing - Thank you!!

[@JeenoMiller]

That's amazing! Start playing with it rn and hope my laptop handle this :D

[@AmanRajJohar]

Nice work

[@dodaexploda]

This is faaaantastic!

[@user-petit-cg-chan]

Thank you for sharing datasets of textures, displacements, etc. The datasets are seamless and fine. I provide anime movies in my channel and I can create CG animation with a robot on the Moon surface model based on the Moonscapes.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Cool! Glad you were able to use them. ;)

[@tirthvora5061]

AMAZING

[@ParkerToney65]

When I try and render, it doesn’t look like it does in the render view. I have the camera in the right spot also. Would I be able to put a robot on the surface and make an animation? I’m a beginner to blender. Last question, why does it look so grainy for me.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Ok, that's a few questions, I'll try to answer as best I can. 1. Graininess: The most plausible answer here is that you have less render samples than me in your render settings. Check under viewport and render samples in your render settings. 2. Robot: Yes, you should be able to make an animation without issue. 3. The render looking different can be a number of things. If you're using displacement in your materials it might be down to the Dicing rate in your render settings. It's set higher by default when you do a full-on render and can cause things to look different.

[@rolledtaco]

I'm fairly new to blender and I'm teaching myself. Is there a way to bake this or render this so that you don't have to re render everytime you do something. What I mean is can I render it and then build stuff on top of it like a moon base? Or do I have to render everything all at once?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

You could use them just in the displacement modifier, but things will get pretty slow if you have a lot of subdivisions. The displacemnt map is actually already the most efficient way of handling such fine details.

[@josephlondon8188]

Could you at some point explain the difference between roughness and specularity? I never touch the specular slider, I just don’t really get it. And every tutorial I’ve ever seen doesn’t really seem to get it either. “They both effect the shininess but in different ways”...... umm thanks. Like. What does it actually do?

[@augm3nt384]

From what I can understand .. roughness is how rough or shiny .. specular the look of that shiny surface.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Specularity is how strong the shiny component of the shader is basically, and the roughness, well... how rough the shine is. ;) Hope that makes sense.

[@Nickimation]

Specularity is how much light gets reflected off the surface, roughness is the direction that the light gets reflected (scattered in random directions or closer to a perfect reflection).

[@zzZzz495]

newbie here, 2 questions: 1, since the plane already had displacement modifier, why are we adding displacement again to the shader? I do see that by adding displacemeng to the shader, the render becomes more vivid. But I'm trying to understand wether the purpose is to add extra "artificial" vividness to the render even though it is not physically accurate? 2, by adding node wrangler to the shader, the shader can be scaled. But I don't understand in the demo, how the object modifier, thus the mesh geometry, was able to react to the scaling action as well. On my computer, the scaling only affected the shader itself, causing mismatch of the mesh geometry and shader (which logically makes sense to me, as the node wrangler is only "wrangling" the shader maps) What did I miss? Thanks~

[@__SKYNET__]

Can these be used in any 3D application since they are texture maps and not necessarily limited to blender

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Yeah, should be no issue.

[@__SKYNET__]

Thank you

[@cheesyco]

Lol I'm obsessed with space animations

[@saberpotatoboy4151]

This is really cool! Im having an issue where the very edges of the mesh are stretched upwards, and when I tile it, you can see the edges stretching up or down.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

I believe I cover this? Make sure to set the "Repeat" value of your Image Texture in the shading value to "Extend" or "Clip" to solve that. :)

[@saberpotatoboy4151]

@@MidgeSinnaeve ok i’ll try this thanks!

[@MrMackurt]

i have buy and download the 16K version texture, why i cannot get the same shape model as the video shows at 6.13...

[@angeloyanke150]

I followed these steps with the 16k versions and they come out sort of pixilated. In the promo you have nice close up shots and it looks very clean, am I missing something?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Send me a message through the Blender Market and we'll figure it out!

[@angeloyanke150]

@@MidgeSinnaeve Alrighty sounds good. I appreciate you replying :)

[@angeloyanke150]

@@MidgeSinnaeve Hi Midge, I've sent you a message on Blender Market

[@darknessbulletXD]

i've got the same problem, do you have the solution ?

[@angeloyanke150]

@@darknessbulletXD Hey! Yeah he explained how to fix it. So you have to be in experimental mode for cycles, that will enable a "subdivision" subsetting in the render settings. There you will see Dicing Rate Render with a render and a viewport option with the render set to 1 px and viewport set at 8 px I believe. Set the viewport dicing to 1 px and that should give you the cleaner sharper look like in the video :)

[@DanielGrovePhoto]

Thanks for these they are incredible. Question: why does displacement method look better than the modifier method? Is it just me?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Displacement can push the subdivisions quite a bit further as it optimizes it based on the resolution of your render.

[@DanielGrovePhoto]

@@MidgeSinnaeve Ah thanks! It's unfortunate though because we have to use rendered view to see it. I do love seeing the results instantly with the modifier though. I wonder if I could just have the displacement modifier not render but the node displacement (which you say is better) will be in the final render view. As long as I have them matched up that might be a good trick. Thoughts on that?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

@@DanielGrovePhoto This used to be possible in Blender 2.79 where you had a toggle to show the scene with its render settings in the viewport but that toggle was removed. The only workaround I can think of is to have two planes, one for the viewport with a modifier and one for the render with different materials.

[@archlyn1]

Yowser! Reaching for my wallet. Terrific tutorial. Thanks!

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Don;t forget you can try the 8K version for free with the link in the description. :)

[@Loganvisuals]

Hello!! I think that this looks really nice, but I can't seem to get it to look as nice as yours, even though I think I am following the directions properly. Whenever I try to shift the position of the sun, it seems to not affect the shadows of my environment. Does anyone have any fixes?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

If you're using a Sun light, the position doesn't affect the look, only the rotation.

[@n0vatik]

How did you generate this textures?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

I used World Creator.

[@AdamSalehx]

frying up my memory, I hope it is worth it

[@kevinhumphrey4072]

Hey Midge, love this series. Question, where did you get a 3090 for a reasonable price? I need the memory for projects and its been insane trying to find one.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

I got super lucky and bought right before all the madness. No magic here I'm afraid, just been using it since it released.

[@kevinhumphrey4072]

@@MidgeSinnaeve Nice. I recently got your RTMG course and am absolutely loving it. Iv been meaning to get in contact with you regarding training. Are you still offering such?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

@@kevinhumphrey4072 Yeah, although it's been tricky depending on your timezone. Best way to get in touch is to shoot me an email.. :)

[@ParkerToney65]

I don’t see the settings button for my shaders. Any Ideas of where it could be?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

In the shader node material editor, hit the N key on you keyboard, then they should be in one of the tabs.

[@ParkerToney65]

@@MidgeSinnaeve thank you for replying

[@michaelgiambrone4158]

Are the first 2 subdivisions supposed to be turned on or off?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

If you're going to use Adaptive Subdivision, I would recommend turning those first two off. :)

[@michaelgiambrone4158]

@@MidgeSinnaeve Thanks. Not sure what I did wrong but I ran out of memory at the first render attempt. I then turned the subdivison modifiers down to 2 instead of 4. The render was UN-recognizable. I was following along with your video, but even my preview didn't look right for some reason. I'm running a NVIDIA 1080 T card so I should have enough GPU.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

@@michaelgiambrone4158 Make sure the Displace modifier is turned off as well. In fact, if you;re going to use adaptive subdivision, you might just want to get rid of everything that isn't the Subsurf modifier you're setting the adaptive checkbox with. After that, be sure to check your material has "Displacement Only" set in the settings in the Shader Nodes view.

[@jeremyvirin6532]

Hi, with the new blender 3.1.2 version, it seems that it is no more possible to set the coordinate to UV as you did, do you know a method to do it on the new version?

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Could you be a bit more specific? At first glance there's nothing here that can't be done in 3.1.2.

[@jeremyvirin6532]

@@MidgeSinnaeve oh sorry, I found out, I think it was because I didn't see that you select the display mode to have the option to put the coordinate to UV. Thank you for answering me

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

@@jeremyvirin6532 No worries, glad it worked out! :)

[@Shqne]

this aint working i need some help

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Could you be a little more specific?

[@s15kj]

Hey the steps in this no longer work the same as they should. Outcome is always different. Updated video would be awesome!

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

Once I have some time over the weekend, I'll look in to it. What exactly isn't working as expected?

[@s15kj]

@@MidgeSinnaeve Probably be easier if you follow the steps in your own video and find out haha. Essentially the displacement is very different to yours and the numbers you're entering like the value of 15.00 makes the landscape look wayyyyyyy too stretched. Texture also looks weird when applied too.

[@MidgeSinnaeve]

@@s15kj I just tried it on 2.92 here and can't see any difference. Are you sure you scaled the plane in edit mode instead of object mode, that could be causing the vertical height issue. You could always select your plane and hit CTRL+A and select "Apply Scale" in your scene and the displace should behave a bit more normal. Make sure the displace is set to "UV" as well for the coordinates if the projection seems off.

[@gaahleriacademy]

@@s15kj try scaling less than 1 (0.25)

[@matthewwilliams6019]

almost looks like a doughnut