Blender: How To Make A Simple Tree

One of my friends, Neomex000, asked me how I made the trees show in my other demonstration videos. I had nothing better to do this morning so I made this tutorial.

Here are the basic steps:
1. get an image of a tree
2. remove unwanted parts of the image, like backgrounds
3. save as a PNG image with alpha
4. open the PNG in Blender's UV Editor
5. create a plane and subdivide it vertically
6. select the two resulting faces and unwrap them
7. apply the PNG image as a UV texture
8. enable alpha and two-sided for both faces
9. duplicate the two faces and rotate the duplicates 90-degrees
10. duplicate the four resulting faces and rotate the duplicate 45-degrees
11. select all vertices and remove doubles

One thing to note is that, this method may not be a good one to use if you're using lights in your game's scene. The way I compose mine is, there are no lights and I simply simulate shadows through my UV images.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• blender
• how
• to
• make
• tree
• png
• uv
• image
• duplicate
• faces

[notmorefat]

from india my friend???

[ABCruz2310]

@notmorefat

Nope, I'm from the Philippines.

[notmorefat]

@ABCruz2310 philipppines!!!!!!!!!!! my firend!!!!!

[ABCruz2310]

@notmorefat

Hahahaha! Happy New Year!

[letsherptothederp]

your intro is so weird.

[ABCruz2310]

@letsherptothederp LOL, I know! =)

[Filo127]

lol , i remember these kind of trees in old racing games XD

good times !

[notmorefat]

@ABCruz2310 i know its late but happy new year to you,too

[notmorefat]

@ABCruz2310 i know its late but happy new year to you,too

[LiamJoly]

adn for blender renderer?

[jeme145]

filo accent :P nice!