From the course: Animating a Landscape with VUE

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Adding a cloud layer

Adding a cloud layer

- [Voiceover] We're ready to add a cloud layer and customize it. First, let's speed up our test renders by hiding some of the unnecessary objects. We'll put things on to display layers. Go down into the world browser at the bottom and click New Layer. And then select that layer, click it again to rename it. Call it Trees. And then select all the Mediterranean Cypresses click the first one, shift-click the last one, and then drag and drop them just below that Trees layer. Now they're added to that layer. We can hide them, for example, by clicking on the Eyeball button a couple of times. It's made shy. Then we de-select the layer. They're actually hidden. All right, I'll bring that back by clicking and now it's visible again. But let's make it invisible to the renderer and we can do that by clicking on the icon here. We'll put the global ecosystem onto a layer of its own as well in order to hide it in the render. Create new layer, click it, click it again and we'll call it Ecosystem…

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