| Changing Leaves on Plants |
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To replace the leaves on plants you
need a color picture of a new leaf and an alpha
picture of the shape of the same leaf to make
everything outside the shape transparent. I
downloaded the leaves I'm showing here from
Varian's
website. Let's
now replace the plum leaves with crimson leaves.
Grow a plum tree and double-click it to enter the
plant editor. |
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1. Click at the leaf
button to enter the leaf editor
2. Look where the hooking point is placed in the original leaf |
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3. Click the Load Color picture
button and browse to the color picture of the leaf
4. Click the Load Alpha picture button to load the corresponding
alpha picture (in this case it's "tCrimson.gif)
5. To put the hooking point in the right place just left-click at
about the same position as it was in the original leaf
Click OK and your tree has new leaves. :) |
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For those who don't
have a Vue version with plant editor let's see how to change the
leaves in the material editor instead. Grow a plum tree and in the
material preview click the arrows to go to the leaf material.
Double-click it to enter the material editor. To make it easy we'll
use the basic material editor. |
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1. Load the color map
of your new leaf
2. Load the Alpha map of your new leaf
Click OK and your plum tree has new leaves. I hope that's easy to
understand and easy to follow. |
