03-17-2017, 08:40 PM
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I've managed to get the branches to barely show up in winter, they needed a better AO (I had to bake new ones because I had messed up the unwrapping did it all again). I think the detail in those branch textures might be too fine and the brown texture too faint to see them well, you might want to thicken the branches up a bit to keep seeing them in winter. If you look at the vanilla trees, the branches are really thick.
It seems that with the billboard material, it won't let you use any other material on that model, the game crashes. With my spruce trees I have foliage material for the leaves/branches, and normal model material for the bark making the tree trunk. This works fine. However if I try to either make the branches in these models a normal material, or a foliage material, it builds fine but the game crashes when you click on the icon to build and bring the mesh into view. It only seems to accept all billboard materials (out of the combinations I have tried).
