Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Scattering is one of the powerful tools in Autodesk Bifrost for Maya. Jason covers distribution, instancing, culling, varying properties, and rendering. Part of a workshop for aspiring technical artists. Expand this description for download links and more.

00:00 - Intro
00:07 - Scattering
01:45 - Scatter Points node
05:17 - Create instances
07:37 - Viewport settings
08:28 - Instances settings (deep dive)
20:04 - Weighting points by height (density weights)
29:27 - Randomize point Scale
32:37 - Orientation
34:37 - Randomize Point Rotation
37:07 - Rendering in Arnold

Download the scenes, compounds, slides, lesson plans and other files to follow along or adapt for your own curriculum: areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/maya/bifrost_bootcamp_lesson_2_files.zip