...there's both more AND less going on here than meets the eye. There are no actual flower models. What you see is a bit of smoke and mirrors created with a couple of terrains, and a nifty bit of textures I created in Photopaint. 1. I went out into the yard and grabbed a few pansy blossoms. 2. I Scanned them into the computer. 3. I Created several different colored Photopaint Image Sprayers. 4. Using a layered technique in Photopaint I painted hundreds of pansy blossoms in both color and alpha map form. 5. In Vue4, I created a terrain and spent a lot of time molding it, (it's the toughest part) and applied a foliage type material to it. 6. I duplicated the terrain and raised it slightly above the 1st terrain. 7. On the 2nd terrain, I created a material using the pansy color map and the pansy alpha map. (for the transparency) 8. Last, but very important, I took the 2nd terrain back into the terrain editor and added pebbles to the surface. This keeps the flowers from looking too flat. There you have it. Simple, no? -SMT

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