Please post here a small image of your newly created plants inside the Plant editor and add a short description how you did it. This may be helpfull for others. Thanks. Guitta

This one is a SONNERATIA. The leaves have been replaced by the ones of the mexican palm tree. After, I have played around with gnarl and droop and the lenght and the width of the leaves.

This one is a hanging plant made from a BAMBOO with a scanned leave and playing around with DROOP (61%)

Forgot to say: The leaves needed to be enlarged too.

Asparagus made from 2 BAMBOOS, mapped with LONG GRASS, drooped and then rotated "head down".

Great idea and fantastic plants. Peggy

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That's a wonderful vine, Guitta!

Oak branch from an aralia and a scanned oak leaf. Here I had to bring flexibility of the leaves to -500 and curl to +500. Also played with gnarl and droop. The fruits were added (spheres from Vue's primitives)

Rural Maple with trunk set to:

Gnarl +15
Diameter+17
Droop+2

Leaves:

length+25
width+15
flexibility+500
curl+100

and remapped with (not very well) hand drawn willow fronds.

John

WOW! This looks absolutely great:-). I will try it as soon as I can (after Christmas). Thanks John for showing it. Guitta

Here is a Large Dead Tree, playing with gnarl, droop, and falloff (i don't remember precisely the setting, because it was during first beta test). On the bottom are some variation of this tree. Rendering using the "cartoon" shader.

Thanks:-) Looks also very great and beautiful with the cartoon shadow:-) Please go on to post here:-) Guitta

Fantastic willow mate, i have been wondering how to get this sort of tree as its my fav... now silly ? i know but i cant for the life of me rememebr how to change the mats or make my own for the veg lol i looked on all cd for the maps but to no avail any ideas many thanks seeklight

These trees and plants are only possible with Vue 4 Pro. For Plant creation in Vue 4, see my tutorials. Tutorials for beginners

yes i know mate i use vp but cant think how to do them if its the same as v4 then il look up your tut i read before merry crimbo

it's not the same. Open a plant, double-click it and then play around in the plant editor.

hahha yer sorry i know how to do that what im askign is is it the same process for makign my own mats for the tree the same as in vue 4

That's the same way as in my tutorials:-)

ah ok many thansk mate

Attached is texture map for willow fronds, pretty crude I'm afraid, anybody wants to improve it and repost - please do!

Transparency follows.

John

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I tried John's settings for the willow tree and his leaves (thanks John)but ended up with a mess...tried new trees a bunch of times but couldn't get anything that resembled a willow... It seems to me that the settings on one person's computer may not get the same results on another? Dawn

Dawn, please go to plant editor>leaf editor and check that the "hooking point of leaf on branch" (red diamond) is as illustrated? If so then please post the mess you get so's I can try and work out the problem, otherwise try to correct the hooking point. Let me know how you get on.

John

Thanks for the info, I had same problem as Dawn. after changing rotation of leaves and setting hooking point it looks great now. :o)

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Sorry, I have the same problems trying to recreate it now, so I guess I must have have modified the hooking point when I did it, having a 'senior momemt' I'm afraid :-(

Damn, and now I can't even spell 'moment'!

Here is mine rendered in final after changing settings to correct ones. Thanks for the information and maps. Pretty neat what can be done with plant editor. I hope to see lots of maps of various leaves and other peoples settings. :o)

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The hooking made it work for me too :) Thanks very much John!

Great work all. I have an enormous visual pleasure to discover your work. Make it come. More, more!! I have all my family at home for Christmas and some more days after, so I have no time right now to play around, but later... The willows looks fantastic:-) Guitta

ok one thing when i try to save this tree as a new species it saves but when loaded from the plants it goes back to the origenal any ideas seeklight

I just opened the williow that is in above attached pic that I saved as new species. I noticed my hooking point settings for the leaf didn't save as I had them in the editor. Mine didn't open as the same plant that I had saved. :o( Must be a small bug in the plant editor.

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seeklight and iloco, I just tried about 20 times, some of them weren't very good, which isn't abnormal for Vue trees, but they all had the right leaves and hooking points. I did get a big colour variation, seems like the 'overall color' setting doesn't 'stick' properly, but nothing worse. Maybe I could try mailing it to you as a .veg, see how that works? John

My tree loads ok except for the hooking point. It will not save to where I put it. I can load tree and correct the hooking point and it is ok. :o)

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