Stylized Foliage Feedback

[aaron_gamer1011 (Aaron)]

Hello people! Yesterday, I spent the whole day researching how to make stylized foliage that fit the current criteria:

• Has an anime look I wanted to have it smooth-looking from afar and near.

• Good Shadows I wanted the shadows to be good-looking, and mimic how a sphere casts shadows

As of right now, I have made something close to what I’ve wanted, however, the “smoothness/anime look” is lacking.

Here is the current foliage:

• Back view
  
  
• Front view
  
• Side view
  
• View from afar
  

and the reference I was aiming for:

• The scenery is made by Fluorlite (YouTube channel name)
• while the models, meshes and textures were made by Delus HomeGames! - Roblox

[cornbeefthief1123]

I think it’s came on very nicely so far!

[aaron_gamer1011 (Aaron)]

I believe I found out how to make it now,

The solution was to just make the tree in Blender, by following this YouTube tutorial:

How to Make a Stylized Tree by using Blender and Unity

But if you already have a trunk, just import the mesh to blender then make the leaves there.

Now for the properties of the mesh:
Transparency = 0
Material = Plastic
Double-sided = False
Cast shadow = false
(If you do the blender portion process correctly, it will create its own shadow even though the texture is just one. Especially for the normals)

For the blender tutorial, at least make the minimum amount of “hair” on the particle a good amount, like 60, 100, or anything that isn’t few as we are not using double-sided (it is to make it SMOOTHER)

And that’s it. You just need some prior knowledge of how to make a Foliage tree (well the old version that I did) and it’ll be easy to grasp.

And if you want to know my lighting:

Yeah, the lighting is heavily customizable (I’d recommend having a higher brightness and slightly high exposure, enough to look vibrant but not enough to make bright-colored materials glow)

Now how do I fix those black lines?

[o4ev]

You use PixelFix on the leaf texture to get rid of the black outline. There’s a devforum post for the software.

Blur the texture a bit if you want for a fluffy feel. Use ForceField to get more shadows on it although they will kinds be inside the leafball cuz of crosshatching

[aaron_gamer1011 (Aaron)]

It looks better now! Thanks.

A before and after:

[agentphilip07 (Philip)]

This foliage looks VERY good! Nice job on it!

[aaron_gamer1011 (Aaron)]

been producing a lot of models and messing around