Thank you Mark, I enjoyed playing around with the custom leaf/tree tutorials - 1 and 2. Took me a few days since I didn't follow the tutorial to a T and ran into problems because of it. Here is a post after two days ( 2-3 hours) of work taking my own photo, photoshop, then carrara: The hot point of each 2D plane with leaf mapped is at the point where I think the stem of the leaf map sits, but I see a few leaves in the render are not touching a branch on the tree... no big deal to me, but curious why. Do you know if the plant attaches to the hot point of the leaf? Thanks again, R

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