Wow, this is a great tutorial and very helpful! I would love to see a more stylized tree examples. Please can you share how to make a stylized tree like Zelda game, studio Ghibli, and Genshin Impact?
Crusenho Iho Idk about the other ones, but there’s a tutorial on how to make trees like the ones of studio Ghibli made by @Lightning Boy Studio hope it’s useful!
Great tree, I love the random transform, I've never heard about it before and it's very useful. That leaf was very low tech though :D but doesn't matter, this inspired me to make my own trees, I'll report back when I made mine. One addition that you didn't do, and might be useful to someone following along is to "Apply all transforms". When you unwrap your tree trunk, you see an unwrapped cube however it is no longer a cube, it shows like that because scale was not applied. If someone want to make a treebark, they can apply scale unwrap and add it to somewhere on the texture map, then paint some tree bark material on that section of the texture map. What size a texture should be since since if you add 1024 textures and make 1000 trees on a level with that resolution that will eff up the framerate etc.. The videou could have been improved by you actually exporting out the tree (you might need to join the parts into 1 model) and tell a bit more about how it will transport into a game engine, because there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Smoothing groups on export ( for unreal) material slots, material sides (this is just 1 sided material, renders good in Blender but not in Unreal etc.. Next project: grass and foliage :-) 1 texture map for more foliage type or 1 for each foliage item?
Laszlo Ivanyi some good comments, thanks. There’s plenty of videos on exporting however so don’t really want to duplicate. Good point on the unwrapping. Been working in so many low poly models my unwrapping has gone downhill.
I think you missed to mention that you've created more branch maps, and you've added something like AO to their base that is closer to the trunk. Just comparing the example with the final tree of the tutorial
@@daiyankhandaker3161 I use Gimp image manipulation software. Free and can do anything photoshop can do. Little different, slight learning curve. But it's great!
Winglett Entertainment youre tutorial is great! But instead of duplicating the leaves as more objects, you go to edit mode and you press shift+D (duplicate) for every time you want a duplicated leaf. At the end you will have one object and a nice looking tree!
Arsyl Games yes I’m well aware that you can duplicate them in edit mode the if you keep them as objects you can randomise the transform of the object rather than hand place the branches.
Winglett Entertainment yeah, thats why I did randomise it by hand. And it took a long time. Do you know if it is possible that you can make multiple objects only one object?
Arsyl Games control + J, sorry that really should have been part of the tutorial. And if you want to seperate it’s cntrl + P and then select seperate if you’re trying to fix your tree
How can I export an asset krita from a single layer as a png with a transparent background? It always shows up as solid. i have alphas on, changed alpha level from 0-100, deleted all other layers. all to no avail... what gives? I must be missing something big since theres no mention of this anywheres
Problem. When i import the image as plane the background is black. However in the UV imager its transparent and all the alpha settings are on? Anyone with an idea why the background on the main view is black?
so i know that in decent game engines, i can just make a material and import this texture to it and boom. However, i n e e d to be able to make this all into one image in some way. lightmap pack doesnt work, so idk how im supoposed to do that :/
Very nice tutorial. Many useful tips. Note to make it more biologically correct. Pine tree branches point upwards? At least from middle and up to the top.
Martin K R Zetterlund I’m really not sure what tree I actually initially referenced but I don’t think it was actually a pine, I just called it a pine because to me all pointy trees are pines
I need someones help.I am new to Blender and I first tried to do this in Blender 2.9 but when I had to add the branches I clicked Shift A and clicked image but there was not an option for image as plain, i deleted the 2.9 Blender and installed 2.8 but there was still no option for that. Pls someone help.
Hey there Boxy. As far as I understand your problem you can not add the image as a plane. It is a somehow annoying thing which isn't quite selfexplaining if you are new - but it is easy to solve. You open your file, click on Edit, preferences, type in search image and choose the searchresult 'images as planes'. Make sure you tick it and just close. Now, back in objectmode, click shift + A and add an image as plane. After this you can use the option on every blendfile without having to do all this again. I wrote this from memory so if there is something not working you can tell me and I will check on the computer 🤘
you need to go to preferences in the edit menu and then under addons search for the "images as planes" addon and check the box. Then you can find the option in the add menu like in the tutorial
One problem that I'm not quite sure how to solve is using planes as the branches. Because planes only have normals pointing in one direction (the direction with the image) the underside of the leaves isn't going to render in Unity. Unless I'm missing something, which I hope is the case because this is stupid simple and I love it. Any advice here?
I just fixed the same problem. You need to change the 'path mode' setting on the export to 'copy'. Unfortunately Unity renders objects differently than blender, so even with the textures applied, parts of the tree are still grey. The transparent regions of the branch texture are replaced with the default unity material, so the tree looks like cardboard with pictures of branches pasted on.
This is a great video, it made me realize that a free tree pack i downloaded months ago was made 100% with this method. Do you know why, when in an engine like Unreal, shading issues might occur near the tops of trees? My treetops always look almost completely black and someone told me it had something to do with normals.
Sam Fuchs sorry I’m only familiar with unity, but if you are having issues with normals you can try recalculate the normals, just google how to do it in blender
@@WinglettEntertainment I am having the same problem in unity. I made this tree perfectly in blender. But when I imported to unity I had black texture problem in leaves. Please help
If you mean what I think you mean then you can just render the finished tree as an image, just remember to set up blender to render empty space as transparent and remove everything else from the camera's view, then you can add the image in the same way you did with the leaves. if you're talking about using it in a game engine the there will be a function for that. Google search is your friend.
Hey dude really nice tutorial thank you for that. But when I import my tree to unity it appears all in gray. Tried to import it in .fbx and as a blender file, nothing changes. Any solutions?
You need to import the texture too. Create the material in unity, add the texture and then drag the material onto the model. Do some research about setting up models in unity.
Just press Space and search Smooth Shading Presses Space: Plays Timeline Me: ?????? Explain how the hell you got the search bar to appear instead of just saying the button, does a lot
Try doing F3 instead. That’s what works for me to use this search feature. Though you can also just right click your selected object and select Shaded Smooth if you’re just looking for that feature.
Hate to break it to you but very often you’ll be using other software alongside blender. Could I have drawn the branches within blender, probably. but since this isn’t a beginner tutorial you can’t expect everything to be only about modelling within blender.
when he started drawing the branches it already looked better than my entire game
haha same here
Tip: If your spacebar is play animation. Then F3 is probably your hotkey for searchbar.
Thank you
Love it, once I finish making my terrible low poly house going to need some trees to hide it 🤪
Worry not we will soon have a tutorial for buildings.
You need something to hide your trees
@@kheosz2455 haja
@@kheosz2455 Welp, if you need to hide your trees than hide it with butterflys.
Of all the videos, yours was the only one that helped me create a tree like that, there is one more subscriber now.
Just what I needed, and the result looks great, thank you!:)
Wow, this is a great tutorial and very helpful! I would love to see a more stylized tree examples. Please can you share how to make a stylized tree like Zelda game, studio Ghibli, and Genshin Impact?
Crusenho Iho Idk about the other ones, but there’s a tutorial on how to make trees like the ones of studio Ghibli made by @Lightning Boy Studio hope it’s useful!
Great tree, I love the random transform, I've never heard about it before and it's very useful. That leaf was very low tech though :D but doesn't matter, this inspired me to make my own trees, I'll report back when I made mine.
One addition that you didn't do, and might be useful to someone following along is to "Apply all transforms". When you unwrap your tree trunk, you see an unwrapped cube however it is no longer a cube, it shows like that because scale was not applied. If someone want to make a treebark, they can apply scale unwrap and add it to somewhere on the texture map, then paint some tree bark material on that section of the texture map. What size a texture should be since since if you add 1024 textures and make 1000 trees on a level with that resolution that will eff up the framerate etc..
The videou could have been improved by you actually exporting out the tree (you might need to join the parts into 1 model) and tell a bit more about how it will transport into a game engine, because there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Smoothing groups on export ( for unreal) material slots, material sides (this is just 1 sided material, renders good in Blender but not in Unreal etc..
Next project: grass and foliage :-) 1 texture map for more foliage type or 1 for each foliage item?
Laszlo Ivanyi some good comments, thanks. There’s plenty of videos on exporting however so don’t really want to duplicate. Good point on the unwrapping. Been working in so many low poly models my unwrapping has gone downhill.
i was really wasting my time trying to add the leaves using a particle system.
I know I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to watch newly released movies online?
@Jaxx Mathew i would suggest Flixzone. Just search on google for it =)
@Elisha Vincenzo yea, I have been watching on flixzone for years myself :D
@Elisha Vincenzo thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I really appreciate it !
@Elisha Vincenzo Thanks, I went there and it seems like a nice service =) I appreciate it!!
I think you missed to mention that you've created more branch maps, and you've added something like AO to their base that is closer to the trunk. Just comparing the example with the final tree of the tutorial
That was a good tutorial. That really helped me a lot. Thanks.
Thanks for the great tutorial, these are great for filling up a scene!
That video is great! Short, straight to the point and helfull. Nice jod, there arent a lot videos like this.
Great video! Presumably you can make that texture in Blender too
Nice tutorial thankyou so much 🙏🏼
Thanks for a simple video. I'm going to try this.
That looks amazing.
Really cute tree! I did it with a bunch of array modifiers to add a bit of randomness to each iteration.
I dont have photoshop : (, is there any other alternatives
@@daiyankhandaker3161 I use Gimp image manipulation software. Free and can do anything photoshop can do. Little different, slight learning curve. But it's great!
@@PaulChabot but I searched for tutorials everywhere did not find any specifically is there any way you can help me?
@@daiyankhandaker3161 Sure! What is your time zone? Maybe we can do a google meeting and I can help you figure it out.
Love it man, thanks! Awesome tutorial and so simple
Thank you so much! This is what I needed!
Glad to help!
Winglett Entertainment youre tutorial is great! But instead of duplicating the leaves as more objects, you go to edit mode and you press shift+D (duplicate) for every time you want a duplicated leaf. At the end you will have one object and a nice looking tree!
Arsyl Games yes I’m well aware that you can duplicate them in edit mode the if you keep them as objects you can randomise the transform of the object rather than hand place the branches.
Winglett Entertainment yeah, thats why I did randomise it by hand. And it took a long time. Do you know if it is possible that you can make multiple objects only one object?
Arsyl Games control + J, sorry that really should have been part of the tutorial. And if you want to seperate it’s cntrl + P and then select seperate if you’re trying to fix your tree
thanks for making this best tutorial
How can I export an asset krita from a single layer as a png with a transparent background? It always shows up as solid. i have alphas on, changed alpha level from 0-100, deleted all other layers. all to no avail... what gives? I must be missing something big since theres no mention of this anywheres
Nice Tree and tutorial!!
Woah that's a smart one nice
I wonder how you put snow on it tho
Thanks you, help me a lot !
Omg. This is pretty awesome
you rock man!, subscribed.
Problem.
When i import the image as plane the background is black.
However in the UV imager its transparent and all the alpha settings are on?
Anyone with an idea why the background on the main view is black?
Thank You
I m just gonna subscribe. This is i say a quality content
Amazing man, thanks a lot!!!
your awesome thanks for the tutorial
Can we get the texture?
so i know that in decent game engines, i can just make a material and import this texture to it and boom. However, i n e e d to be able to make this all into one image in some way. lightmap pack doesnt work, so idk how im supoposed to do that :/
great work!
Very nice tutorial. Many useful tips. Note to make it more biologically correct. Pine tree branches point upwards? At least from middle and up to the top.
Martin K R Zetterlund I’m really not sure what tree I actually initially referenced but I don’t think it was actually a pine, I just called it a pine because to me all pointy trees are pines
@@WinglettEntertainment it's more like spruce
Thank you!!
When I import a transparent PNG same as yours, the transparent part is colored black o.O Any suggestion?
bump.
same problem.
You have to enable it in material settings.
can this tree get rendered in subtance painter and marmoset tollbag ??
Wow i never knew why every leafs look flat in old school game. Now i know
Thank you so much
I need someones help.I am new to Blender and I first tried to do this in Blender 2.9 but when I had to add the branches I clicked Shift A and clicked image but there was not an option for image as plain, i deleted the 2.9 Blender and installed 2.8 but there was still no option for that. Pls someone help.
Hey there Boxy. As far as I understand your problem you can not add the image as a plane. It is a somehow annoying thing which isn't quite selfexplaining if you are new - but it is easy to solve. You open your file, click on Edit, preferences, type in search image and choose the searchresult 'images as planes'. Make sure you tick it and just close. Now, back in objectmode, click shift + A and add an image as plane. After this you can use the option on every blendfile without having to do all this again. I wrote this from memory so if there is something not working you can tell me and I will check on the computer 🤘
@@jackmakmorn Thx for that, I'll try it.
I am having problem with importing the tree in unity. The leaves don't look like as they are in blender. Please help
The option "images as planes" dont appear when i do shift + a and images, what can i do?
you need to go to preferences in the edit menu and then under addons search for the "images as planes" addon and check the box. Then you can find the option in the add menu like in the tutorial
thank you so much.
Can you post your leaves image png? I really liked them a lot and don't have the tools to make them myself.
One problem that I'm not quite sure how to solve is using planes as the branches. Because planes only have normals pointing in one direction (the direction with the image) the underside of the leaves isn't going to render in Unity. Unless I'm missing something, which I hope is the case because this is stupid simple and I love it. Any advice here?
A quick way to solve this would be to use very thin cubes instead of planes.
how do I export the tree in fbx format? I tried to export it into unity but the tree appears all grey, without any texture. pls help.
I just fixed the same problem. You need to change the 'path mode' setting on the export to 'copy'. Unfortunately Unity renders objects differently than blender, so even with the textures applied, parts of the tree are still grey. The transparent regions of the branch texture are replaced with the default unity material, so the tree looks like cardboard with pictures of branches pasted on.
Caleb Stanton thanks man
@@djkaalo248 I actually think I found a better solution that fixes the problem. I should have it fixed in the next few days
Caleb Stanton alright, let me know bro whenever you’re done :)
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It's amazing game game ready asset 👍👍
Using Alt + D is better than Shift + D, in this case.
how do i make it without photoshop?!
Do a search in google for texture... you'll get.
Use Krita. Free & easy.
i don't have the "use image as a plane" option pls help
Its and add-on, go to "Edit", then "Preferences", and on the top right type "images", it will appear that option, just enable it
This is a great video, it made me realize that a free tree pack i downloaded months ago was made 100% with this method. Do you know why, when in an engine like Unreal, shading issues might occur near the tops of trees? My treetops always look almost completely black and someone told me it had something to do with normals.
Sam Fuchs sorry I’m only familiar with unity, but if you are having issues with normals you can try recalculate the normals, just google how to do it in blender
@@WinglettEntertainment I am having the same problem in unity. I made this tree perfectly in blender. But when I imported to unity I had black texture problem in leaves. Please help
@@maximizer174 late to the party here but you might need to change the material type from Opaque to Transparent
Now how the heck do I smart uv project or something this so I can put it as a texture?
If you mean what I think you mean then you can just render the finished tree as an image, just remember to set up blender to render empty space as transparent and remove everything else from the camera's view, then you can add the image in the same way you did with the leaves. if you're talking about using it in a game engine the there will be a function for that. Google search is your friend.
You could have easily painted the branch inside blender too.. just sayin
aegisgfx yeah you’re right I probably should’ve
can you export the tree as fbx to add it to maya?
You should be able to.
@@WinglettEntertainment thanks! Something else that I have to try before exporting it? Like baking it or something?
Thank you
Im working on roblox copy of fortnite and i got normal trees but i will use these bc of insane poly count
Selecting for leaf ''Images as spine" not in my list, how i get on my list?
Edit -> Preferences -> Addons -> "Import Images As Planes" .
Hey dude really nice tutorial thank you for that. But when I import my tree to unity it appears all in gray. Tried to import it in .fbx and as a blender file, nothing changes. Any solutions?
You need to import the texture too. Create the material in unity, add the texture and then drag the material onto the model. Do some research about setting up models in unity.
Yeah, but this kind of a tree has ~2k tris which is a bit much while a low poly tree can be around 100
Isn't low poly usually around 100 to 10K?
@@buulab683 trees amount can be very high on the scene that's why it's not
Just press Space and search Smooth Shading
Presses Space: Plays Timeline
Me: ??????
Explain how the hell you got the search bar to appear instead of just saying the button, does a lot
Try doing F3 instead. That’s what works for me to use this search feature. Though you can also just right click your selected object and select Shaded Smooth if you’re just looking for that feature.
Click baited me bro " first thing we're guna do is open up photo shop" F
as a blender tutorial this is pretty bad cuase it literally starts with you drawing stuff manually on photoshop, a completely different set of skills
Hate to break it to you but very often you’ll be using other software alongside blender. Could I have drawn the branches within blender, probably. but since this isn’t a beginner tutorial you can’t expect everything to be only about modelling within blender.