Forum: Carrara


Subject: Custom Leaf photo/UV map tutorial.

Patrick_210 opened this issue on Feb 12, 2006 ยท 25 posts


Patrick_210 posted Sun, 12 February 2006 at 6:31 PM

Now back in the shader room, drag the leaf shader from the browser to the shading domain for the leaf part of the plant. Another tip for shading: Take your leaf texture into your photo program and lighten it a little and increase the intensity a little and put that image into the transparency channel of the shader. You might want to darken the original image also. This will make for more realism when rendering with light through transparency. With some leaf images it is possible to create a bump map from the photo also, depending on the image. Play with the shininess and highlight also. This type of leaf is quick to load and render and is good for a wide range of small plants and trees. Even complex shapes can be used.