The great thing about this tool is that you can now move and edit the plane and this will transfer to the other mesh so you can get it exactly the way you want, and then once you delete history it breaks the link and you can then delete the plane. select the plane, then the object you're projecting to and then Transfer Attributes using the settings to the right. We are now going to use the Mesh>Transfer Attributes tool to project the colour from the plane to the plant mesh. create a new poly plane and resize it to roughly the same size, then using the Paint Vertex Color Tool paint solid blue across the top. Now that the R channel is done on our plant, we will now move on to the B channel.Ĭreate a new colour set and label it B. You want red anywhere on the mesh that is weaker and more responsive to movement, for example i painted red further down on the middle younger shoots of the plant as I know that they are softer and move more in the real world. I then go around the edges and paint in using b + left mouse drag to control the brush size. Open the Color Set Editor and with the mesh selected delete any colour sets then make a new one and label it R. Then using the Paint Vertex Color Tool, set it to replace and the color value to solid red. It makes it much easier and quicker to work with vertex colours, greypacks etc if each colour represents a specific purpose. I tend to use these channels for these specific uses and I think it's important to develop a system and stick to it. The R channel will control the ambient jitter of the leaves while the B channel will control the plant being affected by the wind, with AO baked to the G channel. I am going to use 2 different channels to animate the mesh. I will now show you how to bake to just 1 channel, and make use of the other channels to animate a plant mesh. This technique is a great way to add another layer of detail to your models inexpensively, but baking a greyscale image over the RGB channels is quite wasteful considering you could pack that information in to just 1 channel.
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