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Texture variation
I’m trying to up the realism of tree leaves by adding a bit of variation to the hue/saturation of the diffuse texture. I’ve read about using the multishader and layering different variations of the texture, but I don’t know how to tell each leaf to randomly pick which variation to inherit. All the leaves are together in one mesh object. It’s probably a simple step I’m missing, it usually is.
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You would need to make the leaf object the child of a mograph fracture object and set the fracture object’s mode to explode segments. Then you can assign the fracture object a random effector set to affect color. The effector will then randomize the multishader’s output.
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Ah right, the random effector. Unlike cloning, though, the Index Ratio mode doesn’t work in the multi shader on this, just Average Color. Is that right? Also, is there a poly limit to fracture? It works on a simple test, but surprisingly hangs up C4D when applied to the tree leaves.
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With the multishader you’d want to use the color brightness mode. Then the random effector applies the colors. For best results set the random mode to sorted.
As far as a polygon limit for the fracture object, I don’t know of one, but it does get deathly slow with very high poly counts.
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