The floor is a photoscan with some 3D weeds and other small shrubbery scattered across it with a particle system. I've got Polycam on my phone and get as many scans as I can when I'm out on cloudy days. But in this particular case, it was a ground scan I downloaded from Quixel Megascans.

For the light, it was a Sun lamp for the main source and an orange area lamp as the fill. There's also a lens flare added in post to sweeten things. The color grade is mostly just bumping contrast and saturation, but I did add a "3 Strip Technicolor" LUT at around 40% opacity to tie the whole grade together.

yeah ive watched this like ten times just for that lens flare thats the best ive ever seen in blender whats going on there,

​@@samcollins7633 Thanks! The flare is part of post processing. I typically render out my image sequence in either .png or .exr format, then bring it into After Effects for compositing/finishing. I added a soft glow over everything to bring out the highlights and add a bit of atmosphere. Then I added some light rays and animated some white dots flying around to suggest small bugs in the foreground (out of focus). The flare itself is a combination of two different elements: A modified flare form Video Copilot's "Optical Flares" plug-in, and a still image of some lens artifacts overlaid with the "Add" transfer mode. Lighting wise, it's only two lights: A sun lamp angled behind for that morning sun look, and a flagged-off, orange area light to act as a "bounce" to bring some fill back into the shadows. That's all combined with an HDRI just to get the blue 'sky' light. (I usually end up turning the exposure on HDRI's down by about half since they're almost always too washed out at default values.

Hmmm... Didn't catch that the first time through. Looks like 'influence' won't appear as an option until a texture is chosen in the Particles tab (particle system, Textures --> select a texture). Then it should appear. Hope that helps.

@@SVitaleFlims yes! now it has worked! many many thanks for the quick help! I am grateful that you are doing this :)!

Hmm.... Not sure. If I had to hazard a guess, maybe double check the Texture Properties tab --> under "mapping," make sure the coordinates are set to "UV." If it's set to anything else, the hair will show up on the wrong sides of the mesh or sometimes nowhere at all. Hope that helps.

Yes, I ran into this problem myself and didn't really solve it till just this morning. I had written you a reply about a half hour ago, but have since found the best solution. So here it is: When we tell Blender to use the paint texture as a "texture" to drive the particle system, the Texture Paint tab will, by default, use the blank image as the BRUSH -- which means that when we try to paint with it, we get nothing -- which makes sense since the software is using the empty file as the brush texture. To fix it: Go to the Texture Paint tab in the Viewport -- at the top of the screen you'll see (from right to left) the paint color, the mix value, the radius and strength and after those you'll see the Brush Style and "Texture." CLICK the "Texture" dropdown and you should notice that it has loaded the blank texture -- Just click the X and disable it. Now you should be able to paint with your normal brush without a problem. This is something I really wish I would've been able to catch before finishing the tutorial since it's way easier to understand visually than to type out like this. But I hope that helps.

It will show up only if you're in cycles, I think.

@@cloudlove1 lol

@@cloudlove1 i dsont see it and im in cycles, did you solve this problem? cause thats the only thing that got me stuck :/

I've got a basic compositing tutorial in the works, that should be coming soon-ish. I also have a new short film dropping tomorrow and the behind the scenes for it afterwards. But in the coming weeks, I will be back to posting more tutorials and breakdowns. I'm always afraid of making a tutorial that's too basic or one that's already been done before, so aside from compositing, would a lighting tutorial or something like it be of interest? As for the lighting on this particular shot, most of it is already done in Blender. The default value for the sunlamp is way too low, so I always set the sun to 10 or so and just blast everything with light (sometimes I add a slight yellow tint with the sun's color selector as well). Then it's simply a matter of comping in a lens flare in AE using the 'screen' layer setting and then cranking the saturation of the color grade. Another thing to keep in mind when doing scenes like these, is that hard backlighting with a lot of bloom will always look angelic, since it's the go-to way to photograph subjects outdoors without over exposing their faces. There are tons of old photos from the 70s that have that look and it's one that I like a lot too.

@@SVitaleFlims Thanks for the response! I would also be interested in a lighting tutorial and I appreciate the tips. Looking forward to your future works!

I found a work around this by making a new texture in the texture panel of the particle system and doing the same thing the video suggests and it will paint HOWEVER, in cycles I can't see the texture or the hair. In evee I can see the moss texture but not the hair. Seriously confusing.

I'm not sure what the issue could be exactly. But I've got a real-time version of this tutorial linked in the description, maybe that will help?

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Influence won't appear as an option until a texture is chosen in the Particles tab (particle system, Textures --> select a texture). Then it should appear. If it still won't appear after that, then I'd be unsure what to try next... Sorry if that got a little confusing in the video.

Texture Properties > Mapping(Below influence) choose Coordinates as UV

Select node and CRTL+G and after press tab to return on the main

After reviewing the video, I'm thinking I may have missed the UV map step (my mistake). But you are correct in your fix, the UV needs to be set first. This tutorial was the first one I tried to make and in the process of cutting the 30 minutes of footage down to something manageable, I must have edited out that info. Sorry for any confusion that caused. Hoping to get a better workflow for tutorials in the future.

Hi, I don't take files out of caution for viruses, etc. However, if you describe which part is giving you trouble, I can attempt to solve the issue.