Anime Stylized Trees and Leaves | Blender Tutorial 

Wah. Thank you so much SouthernShotty! 😊😊

I agree!!

Oh yeah. Initially, I thought I'd let everyone experiment with colors on their own, but Let me explain more on that part. Half-Lambert Shader The setup I have required a Half-lambert shader instead of Diffuse shader (Lambert shader) Half-lambert shader (shown in the video) allows us to play with the values in the shadow region. Unlike, a normal Lambert shader the shadow is not clipped to 0, so it goes negative. Then we map the value from [-1, 1] to [0, 1]. The node setup is the subtraction of two Diffuse Shader + Shader to RGB with one of them having the normal inverted (Multiplying the Geometry Normal with -1 using a Vector Math node) Colors Randomization My setup also have some color randomization to make the color not blocky. In shader editor, with another Attribute node with Type: Instance, Name: "random", you'll get a randomization of colors that ranges from [-1, -1 ,-1] to [1, 1 ,1]. So by using a separate RGB node, you will have 3 [-1, 1] randomizations for each leaves instance. I used those 3 to add some randomization to the value from the half-lambert shader before the colorramp and the others I used them to control the Hue and Value of the color after the colorramp. Hope this helps! If you have other questions, feel free to ask. 👍

I copied his exact setup. I just looked at the images he put up with the "Do it with me" Gumroad file. I was confused why it didn't look like his but then I changed the values to the ones he had and it worked!

@@samaluh hello can you send me your blender files on discord or other device please i cant replicate his color ;(

@@tawansunflower this might sound really noob, but, can you explain me how to begin creating the half lambert shader group because i cannot find the geometry node with the normal dot on it :/

​@@armandomantilla7995 You can find the full node setup of the half-lambert shader in the Gumroad View Content page (The place where you download the file). The node that you cannot find is most likely the Vector math node. The name corresponds to the mode it was on.

Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️

Yeah sorry for the massive delay 😢 I faced some personal stuffs, but I'm back now ❤ The rain tutorial is next on the list 👍

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@@tawansunflower Thank you very much for consistently creating detailed and interesting tutorials. These new methods are extremely valuable to me. Take your time; it's okay. I hope you also prioritize your own life.

Take your time bro. We are getting your fantastic content for free on RU-vid. We can afford to wait

This is awesome, thanks a million for this, now Imma subscribe to your channel

share the file please. I would really appreciate it.

It's two Diffuse shader with one of them having inverse geometry normals combined together to enhance the range of the shading value. The details of the node is in the Gumroad download page 👍👍

Thank you so much! You too! ❤️

Found my answer in Gumroad ;)

​@@erykpall9115 you just saved me lol

did u already found it?? please help mee

@@ryotaa1196 you need to follow the link to the description to gumroad, in the download page there's a screenshot of the nodes you need to recreate

Hmm can you contact me on Twitter. I can look into it 👍

Sorry for not being clear! You can append by going to Files > Append > [find the GeoTree file] > NodeTree > [select the nodes you want to import] > Click append

I'm very sorry for causing some confusion on the shader part. 😭 I've updated the Gumroad product content to include the screenshots now. 👍 Regarding using custom leaves instances, I believe you have some leaves meshes with different color on each of them that ranges from light to dark right? Please, correct me if I'm wrong. I do really recommend using only one mesh though. But if that's not possible, you'll have to put the leaves meshes in a Collection, and in Geometry Nodes, you'll have to plug the collection (with Separate Children and Reset Children turned on) to the Instance on Points node with pick Instances turned on. And then you'll have to find the dot product of the relative location of your light source and the object's normal which will give you a float value (it will mimics a half-lambert shader but in geo-nodes), then you'll have to map the float value from [-1, 1] to [0, the amount of leaves meshes in your collection - 1], and then plug the mapped float value to the Instance Index input of the Instance on Points node. This will change the meshes of the leaves based on the shading of the object. As I'm writing this, I think it's very complicated. 😂 You can always contact me via Twitter if you need further assistant!

@@tawansunflower wow, that's amazing, I see the screenshots are up already. Thank you so much for the help! And thank you thank youuuu for the tips, I'll try and play with it. It is possible for me to use only one leaf mesh, but I have been trying to see if there was a way to do it this other way instead. (It's because I draw trees, leaves, plants etc with watercolor in different shades, and in many months of experimentation, this is the closest i've been to a satisfying result!!) Again thank you, it does sound complicated, but you've given me some awesome pointers. I hope i can make it work now!

@@MolleMuus Woah! I'd love to see the result of that! Actually, with one leaf mesh, you can change the texture of the leaf in the shader based on the value of the light and shadow, so you don't have to deal with multiple meshes. It's like changing the colors of the leaf with a color ramp in my video, but instead of colors you can use images instead, so you can map those images to different values of the shading. That should work too. 👍 I'd love to see how you shade the trees, and it would be awesome if I can help you make it works in 3D too. 😊

Hmm. Can you send me the file to my twitter dm? I'll try to fix it 👍

@@tawansunflower yeah for sure! i'll dm you

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@@tawansunflower thank you so much! you are also make amazing tutorial! love your video!

Hmm I'm not sure why the leaves texture is pixelated. Can you please send me what it looks like on twitter? I'll take a look at it. Make sure you are in the Shader Editor while you add the Attributes node 👍

Having the same issue for number 1, what exactly did you scale to fix it? Not getting anything useful from googling simple instancer. Did you just scale the size of the plane down? Probably just gonna get a new leaf material and try that

@@neetfreek9921 The noise effect is caused by the Alpha Hash blend mode that the leaf material is set to. You can try setting that to Alpha Blend, but there might be problems with z-indexing. Currently there is no fix unfortunately, but I believe the next version of Blender (version 4.2) should have a fix for that.

@@tawansunflower I’ll see if that works when I get home, thanks~

Damn right XD

It's done by connecting the output of the Leaves node group to the geometry output 👍

You can find it my pressing shift + a then Group in Geometry Nodes 👍

@@tawansunflower I find it! Thank you so much !

@@tawansunflower I'm stumped by a new question: where can I find the "MIX" node at 5:11?I've checked all of the vector node and I can't find it

@@守护我们最爱的坤坤 You can find it by adding a Mix node and change from Float to Vector 👍

@@tawansunflower thank you , I find it👍

For exporting the mesh, you technically can export it but the mesh would be converted to static mesh because of geometry nodes, meaning that the leaves would not follow the camera. You'll have to implement the logic in Unity again. 👍

Hello! 1. Yes it can be exported, but it would be converted to static mesh meaning the planes will not follow the camera. 2. The plane does not have geonode setup. 🤔 Did you mean the shader setup? You can find the full shader setup in my Gumroad download page, where you download the file of this tutorial 👍

@@tawansunflower For the first one, can you help me to fix that? and for second one, I am not sure. I checked the geometry nodes on that plane (with leaves material applied) and cannot find that setup. I checked it by downloading the "Do it with me" and I can't find it. Perhaps, can you help me for that as well? That all I can ask :> ❤

@@tawansunflower Hi tawan, I just figured it out where is shader setup so silly me 🤣and 2 questions if that okay with you. 1) Can you help me or think of a way how to make these planes (leaves) that either follow camera or make it normal even it doesnt follow camera? 2) How do you add more leaves? from i see in your shader setup, i see lot of "multiply" and other geo nodes stuff i dont know. (sorry im learning hahaha)

@@renegadely859 1. You can do that by removing the "Rotate to Camera" node 👍 2. You can increase the density of the "Simple Instance" node. Feel free to ask if you have further questions! ❤️

@@tawansunflower Talking about removing “rotate to camera”, is it possible to do this but the plane (leave) will be like 3 planes in each axis. Idk what they call it but yea, is it possible?

Thank you! I'm not sure if there is a way to remove self-shadow (shadow cast on itself) while retaining cast shadows (shadows cast on other objects) in Blender. I assume that is not possible, but you can easily do that in Goo Engine. If you want more details on it, I can send you the Goo Engine version. 👍