Time Lapse/Ecosystem Animation

#1

Greets, I thought I’d posted this, but it must have gotten lost in the ether.

I’m working on a project that requires a landscape change over a period of thousands of years. I’m attempting to do this in vue. The shot requires a lush jungle climate change to an acrid desert climate and then finally to an arctic wasteland. I’ve got a few questions regarding Vue.

First off, is it possible to animate between Ecosystems? Can the density of an ecosystem be animated?

Secondly, is animation between procedural materials addressable?

I’ve worked with Vue a little in the past so I’m not completely illiterate. Any pointers would be appreciated or if anybody could direct me to a viable thread/tutorial, I’d really appreciate it.

If I’ve doubled this post, my apologies.

R

#2

I can guess one thing about the ecosystem change. it could be animated, but the instances might pop in and out with the change. you could do it otherwise by scaling up some instances on some material nodes while you scale down some others on a different material node, all on a mixed material. the terrain will work better, if you animate the node proprieties on a procedural terrain…

good luck

#3

Seeing as this time lapse would essentially cover thousands of years, popping in and out of eco elements would actually be acceptable. I haven’t figured out how to actually animate between systems, or even within a single system. Any help?

#4

I would assume you set your start point, keyframe, then go to your endpoint, make the population 0, then keyframe. You could set up another animation with the desert look and blend the two in post -giving you more control over the transition.

Or try starting with your jungle, keyframe, then at your endpoint, change it to the desert look and keyframe -from looking at some of the Vue presentation videos, this seems possible.

Keep us posted -it sounds interesting.

#5

Check out this Tutorial Video from GeekatPlay. I think it will answer your question

#6

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