OK Guitta, I have used your fall trees in some images at home and I love them. How would I take this image and use it for a plant or some surreal looking trees? I really love the way that plants and trees turn out in other people's art when they use that technique, and would LOVE to learn the art for my own creations. Thanks in advance! Akenaton Image>>> http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=315652&Start=1&Artist=aken%5Faton&ByArtist=Yes

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Attached Link: http://www.guitta.net/tutorials/scan.html

See also the following tutorial.
http://www.guitta.net/tutorials/branch.html

In this one, insteed of taking off branches, render your image in high resolution; After that you can replace the leaves in a paint program with your own leaves. Save the finished file as myleaves.jpg (or something like that). In Vue, create a tree, open the Material summary, search the leaves of the tree you have just opened. Click LOAD MATERIAL and select your leaves.

Read carefully both tutorials to understand.

Guitta

Thanks!! I'll see if I can post something in the next few weeks for you to look at and give pointers on. Awesome!

I just read the tutorials Gebe. I don't have Vue at work, so I'll have to play when I get home. Question...On the single branch tutorial you show us how to basically hide the other three portions of the maple. Would it be possible to edit the original image (the flat one with 4 pieces pointing to the corners) and trim out just the one portion needed, and then apply the technique used on the coconut branch? If edited and resized to 512x512, would the image's graininess cause the render to look poor?

Yes, that's possible. All depends on the render. The tutorial images are only rendered final and then compressed very much.

This way,...providing that it doesn't look too bad after rendering....you don't have to thide the other portions, and I think that it would decrease render times for this effect.

No, if you only want 1 branch of a tree, you must follow the coconut leaf tutorial. If you want a tree with less leaves, follow the SPRING TREE tutorial:-). Did I now answer your question as expected? Guitta

Yes thanks. If I ask too many questions, let me know. I am really eager to learn, so I'll probably get overbearing. Thanks, Akenaton

You're welcome:-)

I have read these tutorials before but now I think I really have a handle on it thanks.