I was really pissed when I found this out. I had made a really nice snow covered version of one of the pines from Cornucopia earlier today only to find out I can't save it!!! I had to save the entire scene just so I wouldn't loose what I created. It's insane that I can't even save a modified version of some thing I paid money for to use in one of my scenes. But not is all bad my friends for I have found a way to get around this little problem :)

You can't save your modified plant but you can export it!!! What I did was to export the modified tree as a 3ds file which I can load back in as an object for use in my scene. Check out the attached image. The tree on the left is the original Cornucopia tree with modified snow texture. The tree on the right is the 3ds version of the same tree. It's not exactly the same in quality as the original but it's close enough. The pine needles seem a little darker in the 3ds version vs the original. Since the original tree can't be saved I can't put a version of it in the free stuff section which was what I had planned to do. All I can do now is make a tutorial to show how to make it. I'll post it once it's complete.

Jim