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 Thanks to Axe555 on the 3dcommune forum, who told me how to modify plant textures, I managed to make a texture for fir trees with snow on them, as in this picture. Here they are in closeup  If Crosswinds ever come properly to life again I will put the texture on my 3d downloads page. Meantime, I hope the link will lead to it, so anyone interested can get it by right click and save image. If it does not, this URL will but you will need to copy/paste it. It is too long for the link URL, and the image file is too big to put in a message. http://image.photoloft.com/opx-bin/OpxFIDISA.dll?src=/PhotoLoft/Asset18/2001/10/20/8253/8253702_0_7619.fpx,0,0,1,1,640,480,FFFFFF To use it, generate the fir trees then display the materials. Edit the fir branches and replace fir1.prv with this image. I had to rotate it through 90 degrees to get it pointing in the same direction as the original. I hope someone will find it useful. 

when you right click and save the image, you get an filename with a .dll suffix. Change it to .bmp and it will save properly.

Hey, that definitely looks nice, and I'm sure it can come in handy at times...

Thank you. I do a lot of snow scenes and this will help tremendously.

Nicely done, Carol. :)

Thanks, gives that a try.

So, how do we do it, use a bump map

Put the firsnow.bmp file (or whatever you decided to call it)in the Vue 4 Plants folder. Generate your fir trees. You cannot generate them with the snowy texture. If you are using lots it is easier to generate them all and you will have only to change to the snowy texture once. Any added later will be made with the ordinary non-snowy texture and you will have to change their texture too. Go to Display menu and click on Display Material Summary. Find the material called Fir Tree Branch. Double click on the pic of the material to get it into the material editor. At the bottom left is a pic of the current texture. Make a note of which way round it is cos you have to rotate the new one to match. Hit the LOAD button, browse to the plants folder and select the firsnow.bmp file and load it. Use the curly arrows bottom right of the picture to rotate this one to the same position the original was in. One click on the arrow pointing left did it for me. That is it. OK your way out of the material editor and close the Display Materials Summary box. Your fir trees will then be snowy. If you add any more and get them with no snow, the easiest way to make them snowy too is open the Display Materials Summary and drag and drop the snowy Fir Tree Branch material to any non-snowy Fir Tree Branch materials. The non-snowy ones will vanish leaving you with only the snowy one that all your fir trees will then use. You can only change the texture in the Display Materials Summary box. If you try to get at it by selecting a tree and clicking the material display at the top right of the workspace you will spoil the tree because it has two textures and you will destroy the trunk texture. You can't use this for anything but fir trees. I make no guarantees about Vue 3 because I have not tried it, but it just might work with Vue 3 firs too. Carol

thank you very much , looks great! will give it a try this evening

The texture looks great, thanks! Love that picture too! Rich

Looks excellent Carol. I have just the scene for it. Thank you :))

Carol, I used it and it works great...thank you very much it was just what I needed.