I have been a Vue 4 user for some time, but it is only recently that I found an item using a .prv that was of interest and wanted to adjust or create something similar. It was a texture map on relief2 in Amazon.vue. I found the picture map was plants/plum1.prv. a green leaf on a black background, yet when loaded the black was translucent! Sooooooooooooooo............................... How does one create/edit .veg or .prv textures for vue?

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I went through the tutorials as I have done in the past! Transparency is covered but not edits to .veg & .prv? Did you have a specific tutorial or was this a broad sweep statement?

You cannot edit ptv and veg files. You can use alternate leaves for your vegetations. Or get Vue Professional. BTW the vegetation.prv files creates the previews :-) I have tutorials on how to create new plants in Vue 3 and 4 (see link given by MightyPete above. And as he already said, look at our Backroom for alternate leaves. Guitta

I don't know about editing the specific .veg or .prv files, but have created a lot of new leaf textures in the material editor. Once you load your mapped picture of a leaf or branch and the alpha map (which gives you the transparency), you can save the material. Is this what you are looking for?

Thanks everyone! It is a fact one cannot edit/create .prv .veg. I think the sample creator of the terrain relief2.vob in Amazon.vue must have edited the vob with wordpad and inserted plum1.prv where a jpg once was? I don't even see where or how a .prv can be inserted on load picture in the material editor? The results are the same using a mapped picture and the alpha map. Thanks again, Dennis

The prv files are auto generated. The hold the tumbnail images. Or at least point to where they are located. The only edit that you can do in Vue regular flavors is exchange leaf type edits. Limitation? Not really Billions of new plants are then available. You save these exchange leaves as textures and plunk them on when you need them. Everything is editable. Even trunks and stems, look at Guitta's tutorials.

I don't know if this will help, but you can transfer the leaf material to an alpha-plane and render the plane perpendicular to the camera. Use luminosity to illuminate the leaf. The resultant picture and alpha picture can be saved and taken into a photo-editor for postwork. - Charles