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0:00Hello. Thank you for clicking on this
0:02video. [music]
0:03I'm very glad that you did. And in this
0:05video, I'm going to be showing you how I
0:07made all of this foliage, all this
0:09greenery and stuff.
0:11It's very relaxing here.
0:14Okay, I'm going to get straight into the
0:16tutorial. For the beginning of this
0:18tutorial, we're not actually going to
0:19start in Roblox Studio. Instead, I'm
0:22going to start in a drawing program. I'm
0:24going to be using Clip Studio Paint.
0:25Clip Studio Paint isn't free. So
0:27instead, you can use Photoia. No
0:30download and it's completely free. It's
0:31browser. So I'll leave a link in
0:32description for Photoia. But again, I'll
0:34just be using Clip Studio Paint cuz I
0:36like that and it's not that different.
0:37Now, first what you're going to need to
0:39do is just get like your plant. Maybe
0:41something like this. Okay, that let's
0:43just use this. I don't know how good
0:44this will look, but I'll just do it
0:46anyways for this tutorial. So just get
0:47something like this. I used a brush that
0:49I have from Clip Studio Paint. If you
0:51want to get something like this, try to
0:52find it in Google images, I guess. So
0:54like this is a pretty good one. I looked
0:55up stylized plant transparenc PNG on
0:58Google images. And I got something like
1:00this. So let's also use this as well.
1:02Okay. In Photoia, we're just going to
1:04obviously delete its background. We want
1:06it transparent. Okay, there you go. I
1:07changed up the colors a bit so I can
1:09just adjust it on my own Roblox Studio.
1:11But yeah, something like this. Before
1:12you upload this, there's something you
1:14got to do. Get the eraser tool and then
1:16just like lower its hardness. Erase the
1:18bottom part like this. Just fade it in.
1:20You have to do this. Just trust me on
1:21this because if you don't then you're
1:23just going to have like some texture
1:24showing at the very tip of your plant.
1:26Just trust me on this. Just erase the
1:27bottom part like this. Now when you're
1:29done just export it and save it as a
1:31PNG. All right. Now we use Blender. Just
1:33know I'm using Blender 2.9 in old
1:35version, but it doesn't matter what
1:37version you have. I don't think it'll be
1:38that. Anyways, now just get a plane mesh
1:40right here. And let's upload our plant
1:42image. So just go to UV editing and
1:44click over here this open button and
1:45open up our plant image. I'll just do
1:47the Clip Studio Paint one and then I'll
1:49do the other version later. Now, let's
1:51put the actual texture onto our plane.
1:52Click on the red circle, new, and then
1:54click on this yellow circle, image
1:56texture, and then click on this thing
1:58right here, and just open up the plant
1:59thing that we just did. Now, in order to
2:01see it, click on this arrow right here,
2:03and then just click texture. There you
2:04go. There's our texture. I know all this
2:06may seem like torture and it just takes
2:08too long, but the end result is actually
2:10worth it. I'm telling you, it's worth
2:12it. Now, what I do is just spam this
2:15plane around. So, like I want it to look
2:17like a plant. Right now, it just looks
2:18like a flat thing. So, I'm just going to
2:20duplicate this thing around and just try
2:21to get a plant shape. And also, what I'm
2:23going to do, click this arrow right
2:25here. And then click on face
2:26orientation. Now, you can see it's blue
2:28on this side, but on the other side,
2:30it's red. So, as you're duplicating
2:31this, make sure all the blues is facing
2:33one side and all the reds are facing the
2:35other side. So, like basically, if
2:36you're going to be duplicating and
2:37rotating, don't make it so it's like
2:39this. It's red and blue. No, just have
2:40it so it's always the same blue side and
2:43always the same red side. Keep that in
2:44mind. So, anyways, let's continue
2:45spamming duplicates.
2:54All right. So, this is how mine looks
2:55like with the red and blue sides or
2:57whatever. But yeah, this is it. I'm
2:58actually going to turn it off. So, click
3:00this arrow here and then face
3:01orientation. Don't need it anymore. And
3:02honestly, I don't know why I even chose
3:04this plant. Um, I don't know what this
3:06plant texture even is. Uh, it doesn't
3:07even look like a a bush or plant or
3:09whatever. But, you get it. You get it.
3:10You're following the tutorial, so it
3:11still work. Now, what I'm going to do is
3:13just one more secret thing that I do.
3:15Click on add mesh and then plane. And
3:17then what I'm going to do is select our
3:19plant. Click on this wrench icon. Click
3:21add modifier data transfer. Click this
3:23eyropper. And then click on the plane
3:25over here. And then click this square
3:27next to face corner data and the arrow
3:29next to it. Custom normals. And then you
3:31have to do is click on this green
3:32triangle and then check this on if it
3:33isn't already. Now what this does is
3:35just flattens it. So like if I turn it
3:37off, this is how it was before and this
3:38is it now. It just flattens it which I
3:40just I just like more. So I don't like
3:41these little shadows that are around.
3:43It's annoying. This is better. So now
3:45what we're going to do is click on the
3:46wrench icon again. Look at this arrow
3:48and then apply. Now we can delete this
3:50plane. And then now we can export this
3:52and upload it into Roblox Studio. So
3:54file, export, and I'll do FBX. Before I
3:57actually go into Roblox Studio, I'm
3:58going to do the other plan very quickly.
4:00There you go. Honestly, this one looks
4:02better than the Eclipse Studio Paint
4:03one, which is crazy. And I got this one
4:05from Google images. So, okay, let's
4:07export this one now. Ah, this build is
4:09beautiful. Just look at all the uh
4:13What are you Who Why are you here?
4:15>> I don't know. I was just wandering
4:17around.
4:17>> Well, get out of here. I'm recording a
4:19YouTube video.
4:23Oh.
4:25Uh yeah. Okay. Thank you for leaving.
4:29Can we just get back to the video?
4:30Please get back to the tutorial. Okay.
4:33Back in Roblox Studio. Just click import
4:343D and then open up the two plant things
4:37that we made. All right. These are both
4:38the plants. They both look different.
4:40I'll be showing you how to fix it. Let's
4:42start with this one. So, what we're
4:43going to do is just click on the plane
4:44and then go to properties and then copy
4:46its texture ID. Click the plus next to
4:48the plane and then just put in a surface
4:50appearance and then go to the surface
4:52appearance properties and then just
4:54paste what we just copied to color map
4:56and then just let it load. Let it load.
4:57Let it load. There you go. There's our
4:58texture. But we want to get rid of the
5:00background. In order to do that, change
5:01overlay to transparency. Okay. Yeah.
5:03There you go. One more thing. If your
5:05plant textures have like annoying black
5:07outline on them, you got to use Pixelix.
5:09I'll leave a download link of Pixel Fix
5:11in the description below. Anyways, to
5:12fix the black outlines in your textures,
5:13all you got to do is just drag your
5:15texture to the Pixel Flick app. A pop-up
5:17will show. Just wait till it says you
5:18can get out of the pop-up. I know this
5:20thing looks kind of scary. It looks like
5:22it'll probably give you a virus, but
5:23trust me, it doesn't. It's completely
5:25fine. I hope so. It's fine. No, it's
5:28fine. All right, there. And now I can
5:29get out. Press any key to exit. So, I
5:31press anything and then boom. And then
5:32just re-upload the texture. So like this
5:34is how it was before and then this is
5:36how it is after. It just gets rid of the
5:38black outlines. If you want to keep the
5:39black outlines and then just then just
5:41skip that. But I don't really want them.
5:43So I'm just going to leave it like this.
5:44Oh, and lastly check double-sided. So
5:46the back side will also show. So that's
5:48that bush done. Let me do the same with
5:49this one now. And then boom. There's our
5:50plans or our bushes. I can now use them
5:53in my map. Like boom. Look at that. Oh,
5:55that's so good. That is so nice. Look at
5:57that. And then I'm going to put the
5:58other bush like right over here. Ooh,
5:59look at that. I like that. There you go.
6:02There you go. So, as simple as that.
6:03That's how I make my foliage. It's so
6:05easy and nice looking. All right. Now,
6:07I'm going to be showing you how people
6:08make those trees. You know, those
6:10specific stylized trees. I'm going to
6:12actually start out in Clip Studio Paint.
6:14I also show how to do it in Photoia
6:16later in the video. Just keep watching,
6:18please. I'm just going to use this leaf
6:19brush that I have and try and get my my
6:21leaf texture.
6:27Okay, maybe this will look interesting.
6:29I don't know. Oh, sometimes I just do
6:31something random and hopefully it will
6:33look good. Who knows? Anyways, let's
6:34just make this completely white and have
6:36a transparent background. Now, let's
6:37save this. Also, if you don't know how
6:38to make something like this, I'll show
6:40an easier way, I guess. In Photoia, just
6:42get the lassel tool. Just right click
6:44this right lassel tool and then just
6:45make like like leaf shapes. I'm holding
6:47down shift right now and I'm just making
6:49like shapes of a leaf, you know? I'm
6:51going really fast right now. I'm just
6:52going as fast as I can. Get all of them
6:54selected. Remember, hold shift while
6:55doing it. And then just get a brush and
6:57then just fill it all in. And then once
6:58you're done with your leaf texture, make
7:00this like uncheck the background so it's
7:02transparent. Select your leaf layer,
7:04hold control U, and then just make the
7:06lightness all the way up so it's white.
7:08You want it white. You want your leaves
7:09to be white, not green. White. Remember
7:11that. Okay. Oh, and also you can make it
7:13slightly blurred to get it fluffy
7:14looking. So just go to filter, blur,
7:17gaj, and blur. And then just make it a
7:18bit blurry, not too much. And again for
7:20Photo Pia, it's the same thing. Filter,
7:22blur, gaj, and blur. Again, this makes
7:24it more fluffy looking your trees. Okay,
7:26back in Blender. Delete everything from
7:27there. I don't want it. Now, we're going
7:28to do the same thing in getting the
7:30plane and getting the texture on the
7:31plane. UV editing. Click this open
7:33button here and get your texture. Red
7:34circle, new yellow circle, image, this
7:37button, the texture, this arrow,
7:39texture, all that. We're just going to
7:41spam this and get a bush shape cuz it's
7:44flat right now. Also, yeah, again, I'm
7:45going to click this arrow base
7:46orientation and then try to get like the
7:48blue and red sides.
7:54Also, this part is important. I feel
7:56like most people miss this. just keep
7:58rotating like the the bush and make sure
8:00it's an overall shape of a circle. Like
8:02over here, it's not really circularish.
8:04So, I'm just going to select this part,
8:05maybe push it out so it's like this.
8:07Select this part, maybe push it out like
8:09this. Now, it's more like oval or circle
8:11or like Okay, there's my bush. This is
8:13how it looks like. Okay, it was really
8:15quickly done. Now, there's two different
8:16ways where you change the normals. It
8:18just depends on what you want. So, we
8:20have this plane. We're going to do the
8:21same thing like we did earlier. So,
8:22select your bush, the wrench icon, add
8:25modifier, data transfer, ey drop, select
8:28the plane, this plane, the button right
8:30here, arrow, custom normals, this green
8:33triangle, normals, and then check auto
8:35smooth. And then boom, it's flat. Now,
8:38this is one thing you can do. Another
8:40way is I'm just going to duplicate this.
8:41Another way you can do it is instead of
8:43a plane, just delete this. We use a
8:45sphere. So, get add mesh UV sphere. Now,
8:48just put the sphere within it like this.
8:50Click on the bush. Click on add modifier
8:52data transfer eyrop and then select the
8:55sphere and then this button right here
8:57arrow and then custom normals and then
8:59this green thing right here and then
9:01make sure it's on. Now I'm just going to
9:03go back to the wrench and then apply the
9:04data transfer modifier. Now boom, you
9:06have two different ways of getting your
9:08your like normal shadows. Now just put
9:10both of this in Roblox Studio and it
9:12will look different. And then just you
9:13decide which one you want to use again.
9:15Go back to Roblox Studio and click on
9:16import 3D and open up our bushes or
9:18leaves. And again they look weird. We
9:20have to do the same thing that we did
9:22earlier when we fixed these ones. Go to
9:23its properties. Copy it. Texture ID plus
9:25thing next to it. Surface. Oh. Oh. Oh my
9:28god. Not surface appearance. Select the
9:30surface appearance properties. Go. Paste
9:31it in color map. And then overlay to
9:33transparency. You get it right. Please
9:35say you get it now. And then boom. You
9:36can see how different it looks. This one
9:38I didn't show in the recording, but it
9:40was just another plane mesh, but it was
9:42a tilted plane mesh. It's not that
9:44interesting. Anyways, now before we
9:45continue further, let's get our tree
9:46trunk. So, what we're going to do is go
9:48to edit references and then click on
9:50add-ons and just search up sapling. And
9:52then you can just check it on if it
9:54isn't on for you. Also, again, I'm using
9:56Blender 2.9, so I don't know if
9:58anything's different, but I'm using this
9:59one. Now that you got your saplings
10:01turned on, we're actually going to go to
10:02add and then a curve and then saplings
10:05tree genen. Select that. Now, I'm going
10:07to show you the settings and to get
10:08something good cuz this is this is just
10:10a mess. So, what we're going to do is
10:12within geometry, click on load preset
10:14and then Japanese maple. Now we're going
10:16to just change this up a bit more. So
10:18switch from geometry to branch
10:20splitting. Now what we're going to do is
10:21just put levels to one. And then we're
10:24just going to lower down the top one
10:26over here, 16. And then you want the
10:28lower it is the less laggy your tree
10:30will be. Now what we can do is just over
10:32here split angle the 15 one. Lower it
10:35down to bring the like the branches a
10:36bit closer cuz I just want that. One
10:38thing I want to change is the size of
10:40the tree. So what I'm going to do is go
10:41to branch radius and then I'm going to
10:43make the root flare a bit thicker. So
10:45the the root is just bigger. And then
10:47I'm going to make the radius scale a bit
10:49bigger. So the overall tree is just
10:51thicker. And then there you go. You can
10:52use something like this. This is pretty
10:53good. Oh, and lastly, just within
10:55geometry, lower down the curve
10:56resolution a bit. So it's also less
10:58laggy. Okay, that's my tree trunk. Now
11:00this is a curve. We have to make it an
11:02actual mesh. So select it, go to object,
11:04convert to, and then mesh. Now it's an
11:06actual mesh. Now let's actually texture
11:08paint this. We'll just do something
11:10simple. So just click on UV editing,
11:11click on image, new, and then I'm going
11:14to just put the star symbol and then
11:15two, which means multiply the textures
11:17by two. And then just name this uh trunk
11:20texture. Let's just get the base of our
11:22trunk color. Now what we do is press on
11:24the red circle, new yellow circle,
11:26image, this button, and then the tree
11:28trunk. So this is what we have so far.
11:30Not very good. We have to actually make
11:31this look better. What we can do first
11:33actually unwrap, go to wireframe, and
11:35then just select this bottom part right
11:36here. Go to an angle where it's like
11:38you're probably going to paint on. and
11:39then press U and then project from view.
11:42And you can just make this big right
11:43here in the corner. And then what you
11:44can do is go to select invert and then
11:46again go to this top view right here and
11:48then project from view. And then I'm
11:50going to make this on this side of the
11:52UV. Now there you go. I basically just
11:54said project from view of just the tree
11:57trunk and then the actual branches.
11:58Again, probably a better way, but for
12:00this tutorial, let's just do this. Now
12:01you can go to texture paint. What I'm
12:02going to do is click on this button
12:03right here and then flat. So I just get
12:05it flat. And then what I just do then is
12:07click on this and then enable cavity so
12:09I can see the angles. We got to get a
12:10brush texture. So click on this right
12:12here. New open. I like using the square
12:14brush texture. I'll leave a a link in
12:16description of it. Click this button
12:17right here. Scroll down texture and then
12:19click tile and change it to hue plane.
12:22Change falloff to this constant button.
12:24And now if I like just paint. There you
12:25go. You can see it's painting. Now we
12:27get to texture painting. This part
12:29there's no really explanation. Just do
12:31it. We just texture paint now. So enjoy
12:34the time lapse maybe.
12:39[music]
12:57and there you go. Boom. Look at that.
12:59That actually looks fire. That looks so
13:00good. Now, make sure that you save this
13:02image and then save it. Now, I'm just
13:04going to go to layout, click on this
13:05area right here, and then texture. And
13:07this is how it looks like. Like, h it's
13:09not really good looking. So, what we can
13:10do is I'm just going to duplicate this.
13:12Duplicate it. And then click on add mesh
13:14plane. And we're going to do the same
13:15thing, just flatten it. So we're going
13:17to click on this, the wrench icon, add
13:19modifier, data transfer, eyropper, the
13:21plane, this button, this button, custom
13:25normals, green triangle, normals, check
13:27autom. Now we're going to upload both
13:29both the non uh uh data transferred
13:32version and the data transferred
13:33version, and we're just going to see
13:34which one we like more. So let's upload
13:36them in Roblox Studio now. So import 3D.
13:38So again, this is the nonflatted version
13:40with the data transfer, and this is the
13:42flatted version. So you can just
13:44determine which one you like more.
13:45Honestly, this one's looking way better.
13:46So I'm just going to use this one. One
13:48last tip, you can just bring in the
13:49texture within photo p. I didn't edit
13:51from there. Like for example, I want
13:52more contrast. So I'm just going to
13:54boost up the contrast here. So like
13:55that. Boom. I made it brighter and just
13:57made it so like it's just more higher in
13:59contrast. And boom, there it is.
14:00Re-uploaded. Just brighter and just
14:02better in contrast. And look at that.
14:04Look at that texture. We put our leaves
14:06on it. Oh yeah. If you want to change
14:07the color of them, just go to the
14:08surface appearance properties and then
14:10change the color right here. Now we just
14:12put this on the tree. There you go.
14:14Added the leaves on the tree. We got a
14:15tree texture. Nice looking. Now the for
14:18the secret ingredient. The secret step
14:20is adding in lights to it. Light points
14:22part here and just add a light point to
14:24it. So just click on the plus next to
14:25the part and look up the light point or
14:27point light is what it's called. I guess
14:29you can change the settings by clicking
14:30on it and then going to its properties.
14:31I'm just going to use the F3X plugin cuz
14:33I just like that more. We add two
14:35lights. One within here within shadow
14:36and one above it. So within the inside
14:38one, I'll just do like a bluish kind of
14:41color almost purplish, light blue,
14:43whatever. This kind of color within the
14:44inside shadow. Now for above, you do the
14:47color of the leaves and make it pretty
14:49bright. There's your tree. That looks so
14:51good. I can also put it in my map. I
14:54mean, look at that. That's so good. Oh
14:57my god, that's actually way better than
14:58I expected. Now my map is complete. That
15:00looks so nice. I love that. All right,
15:03if you found this video helpful, please
15:05consider subscribing or at least leave a
15:06like. If you have any questions, tell me
15:08them in the comments and I'll try to
15:09respond. And that's it.

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