Create a Photo Realistic Forest - Blender 2.92 Tutorial (With Quixel Megascans)

Hey everyone! Welcome to the latest tutorial from Just The Basic's! It's been a minute. Now this tutorial is long overdue, so I apologize for the delay in content. I actually recorded this tutorial a while ago, but due to trying to be a perfectionist, it ended up taking far more attempts to complete than I had hoped, but it's here now!

I've linked below a list of great free assets you can use to follow this tutorial step by step. As mentioned in the tutorial, I've used Quixel Megascans for my textures and assets as this is my regular workflow for creating forest scenes. Quixel assets are NOT required to follow along with this tutorial however. This video is merely a step by step guide on one way you an reate a forest using these assets.

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Megascans Assets used in tutorial:
Bark:

Leaves:

3D Assets:

Thanks so much again everyone for your patience and support! I hope you all stay safe and well and I look forward to seeing you in the next video.

[nakshayan]

Hey everyone! If you're using free textures and the leaf textures don't work (leaves look like a square/rectangle/opacity isn't working), you have to make sure you insert the "translucent" file and "opacity" file (also called "alpha" in some cases). "translucent" goes into the "transmission" section of the BSDF and "opacity" goes into the "alpha" section of the BSDF.

Then go into the settings section of the right menu (under the material tab, "Viewport Display" > "Settings" > "Blend Mode" (or just search it), change the setting from "opaque" to "alpha clip". Then it should all work!

Sorry if this is a little confusing I'm really awful at explaining stuff lol

[annamota]

anyone that starts their video with g’day will make the most informative videos!

[nuttob]

I was just about to give up on making a forest and blender in general as other forest tutorials required you to be a rocket scientist to figure it out! I now have hope!

[thomasschindler]

Hands down the fastest, easiest and in the same time pretty light weight way of how to create realistic trees. Thank you so much!

[lestrucsdeflo]

I cannot thank you enough this tutorial, is exactly what I needed and nobody seems to have make a tutorial to make fast procedural trees using blender system, awesome

[aryaman]

Dude I've never seen anyone explain soo well. 😍😍😍
You are awesome.

[ultra.shorts]

I LOVE YOU ! I SEARCHED MONTH AND MONTH AND FINALLY, I GOT A REAL TUTORIAL !!! THX YOU SO MUCH BRO

[punk_rock]

Note that if your ground texture not correctly mixed in Cycles/Eevee when rendering (eg. displayed only one of textures.) You should select "Col" value from little dropdown in Color Attribute node (aka Vertex Color node in older versions of Blender)

[sriharivaila]

A small tip :
In the branch splitting for white birch tree if you feel like adding more volume to the trees then go to the branch splitting and their you will find branches section, increase the values of that columns it will create more branches without giving too much load on the pc.

[theguywhoasked]

that forest looks like its straight out of far cry 3 no cap. Great video

[Dpolygon]

This was an incredible tutorial! Are you able to do a tutorial on a larger scale like an open environment just like this one and add some logs, rocks, maybe some water etc? And then either add some animation or export to unreal and make it playable?

Learnt quite a bit from this tutorial. Thank you! Can't wait to see more like this.

[christianverberg]

Amazing tutorial. I really love the way how straight to the point you are and also giving us freedom in what we can create using this tutorial! <3

[patrickfaas]

The 'vertex color' node is now called 'color attribute.' And the 'separate RGB' node is now called 'separate color.'

[richardnagy]

Super! I am happy to find a person who makes tutorial with free addons! No problem at all if someone is using it, but as a beginner you do not want to pay hundreds just to try something.

[waterslug]

By far best blender tutorial ever thank u

[tomsonpl]

Big big thanks. I knew most of using technical by you, but thanks to you i learn how to combine them in one good looking effect, and you can explain everything in a 100% clear way, so thanks so much, cheers mate!

[Vonsteffan]

Excellent tutorial. Great explanations for each step.

[KK-sfem]

I Did It.. Thank You Soo Much Sensei...

[jcobreti]

there is another way to mix 2 textures, using a new black image and in "texture paint" mode with a white pincel draw the areas you want with the other texture, this image is the image you put in the FAC value in the mix shader

[damianwhite]

Bro this is a great video, I’m looking to make my first forest and this video made it all sound so simple