03-20-2017, 09:56 AM
To make my last spruce trees, I covered a tree in hairs which were coloured green to brown. I then took a picture of this, and used it as a texture for the branches of the pine, spruce, and fir (different one for each, but same method). I then used a particle system to attach a few different faces in many places up the trunk of the tree. There are two problems with this, 1 - the texture is just too fine, and comes out a blur mess in Banished. 2 - I could not find a good particle attachment for the faces, there was too much variation in all directions and I couldn't really get them to point down.
These trees looked fantastic in blender, but just would not translate to Banished. The ones in the Pine Set were the best I could do.
So today I scrapped that method, and went to basics. I made the trunk of a spruce, and made 3 objects that were a plane with texture from the internet of an actual spruce branch (really had to find!). I then went in and duplicated the face objects, placing each one specifically where I want it. It took a lot of time, but the results are far, far better in game...
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There is still something wrong with my trunk, for some reason the texture will not play nice. It works fine in Blender, but won't come out in game. I think it needs to be re-made.
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Now I have to figure out how to get the deciduous trees to do what I want.
