I have no luck to make a "Money Tree" with Carrara's plant. The plant editor do not have leaf in rectangle shape for texture map. Did anyone have been able to make money tree in Carrara? How? Thanks

You can add your own leaf shape to the library. Save in the appropriate file format and directory and restart Carrara. There must be some tutorials if this is too little information.

Is the leaf shape a master that you can edit? Never looked at that. -Kix

-Kix

The leaf shapes are just standard .car files. They're in the Plants subdirectory of the Data directory. I think you can have pretty much any vertex model as a leaf but C does like a stem to attach the leaf to the tree. The simplest method is to open leaf.car and edit that, saving it with a new name in the same directory. It will then appear in the leaf shape dropdown of the tree editor. You can apply a texture map to it using the layers list shader.

Falcon, Can you please post how you got this texture map worked on leaf? Were you able to put rear and front dollar image on leaf?

Open the leaf file in the VM and then use the UVMapper to adjust the texture. Save the file and restart C; open your tree file and then apply the texture map to the 'leaf' layer in the layers list shader. I don't think it's possible to put separate texture maps on the top and bottom of the leaf. You can add thickness to the leaf and give the top and bottom different shader domains but these aren't available in the tree shader. There may be a way but I couldn't get it to work. The simplest way is the make your 'leaf' a collection of leaves, then apply a single texture map showing different sides for different leaves. HTH