03-18-2017, 06:26 AM
<a contenteditable="false" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/3183-ketchup/&do=hovercard" data-mentionid="3183" href="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/3183-ketchup/">@Ketchup</a> I can't wait to see how it comes out. I'm glad we are making progress! It is useful knowledge for improving my trees, which is something I've been meaning to do for a while now.
I actually liked the single leaf texture, but you are right it does produce a lot of faces for such a small mesh. I think the new one will work just as well, or even better. I think I need to do the same with the trees, I went for too fine detail and it just comes up a thin blur in game rather than nice full branches.
With regards to selecting all faces, in blender I found that if you go to the material menu, you can choose a material, say the branch material, and click 'select all' which will select only all faces which have that material assigned to it. I don't know why I never did this before. Then there is an option to change the way the objects are transformed in relation to each other. I usually use 'mean point' which is roughly the middle of all selected vertices, fine if you are doing 1 face or cube, but when you scale a lot together they all shrink into the middle. You can change this to 'individual origins' which means they stay in the same position and shrink in relation to themselves rather than in relation to the whole selection. Those two tricks meant that I could scale all of the leaves in just 2 clicks while leaving the branches alone.
I think trees have been the most, disappointing, of all of the things I have done so far. It is something to do with the different leaf materials in the mod kit, they mean that the trees never look as good in game as they do in blender. I think it is just a lot of trial and error, and going through things like we did last night helps to figure out the things you need to play with.
