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    Roxana Moise-Dan(ox)

    Hello,

    is there a way to make this texture transparent and see only the leaves?

    The png is transparent, but as you can see, it doesn't work.

    What I have there are some planes with the image texture applied to them.

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    • Omar Domenech replied

      In this example I used a texture as a mask for the black part, but in your case you can use the alpha of your texture as the mask and plus it into the factor of the mix node, so the black part is transparent and the white part is your texture.


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    • Roxana Moise-Dan(ox) replied

      I tried doing what you recommended, but I bumped into another issue.

      I have this particle system set up for generating the planes. I don't know if this is causing the problem, but everytime I enter Edit Mode, my planes disappear and I can't access them anymore.

      Screenshot_2.png

    • Omar Domenech replied
      The nodes you added shouldn't be the cause of that, if it's the transparency they would also be invisible in object mode. The materials settings for transparency change depending if you are using Cycles or Eevee. Maybe share some more context of your problem. I you remove the material does everything go back to normal?
    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hi Roxana,

      The Particle System is not displayed, when in Edit Mode.

      You can use Particle Edit Mode to Add and Move and Remove Hairs (and thereby Leaves).

      Another possibility, is to Add a Particle Instance Modifier on the Leaf and set the Tree as Object in that Modifier.

      You can then go into Particle Edit Mode on the Tree and still have the Leaves visible:

      Tree.png

      The cool thing about this is, that you can add a Force Field (like Wind) and the leaves will react to that!

      You'll have to experiment a bit with the Particle Instance Settings, but the ones I use above, are a pretty good start, I think.

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    • Roxana Moise-Dan(ox) replied

      Thank you! Sorry for the late reply. Didn't get a notification. 

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