Citizen Exclusive: Creating Low Poly Foliage

by Porter Nielsen

Learn to create game-ready plants in Blender.

In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we go through the process of creating three different types of vegetation that can be used to help add life to any of your Blender scenes. This tutorial covers modeling and texturing different plants and focuses on correctly setting up your textures with alphas to get the best possible results.

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89 Responses to “Citizen Exclusive: Creating Low Poly Foliage”
  1. Chidozie Oku
    Posts: 2

    No direct download links?

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     May 12, 2012 at 12:39 pm
  2. Matt Spencer
    Posts: 3

    This is perfect for game makers…if your making any game, there is almost always a need for shrubs and foliage.

    The process shown is easily replicated for other types of plant life. I have made several looking plants but this still had lots to teach me.

    I would like a “Jungle or Safari” themed plant tutorial. Like how to make Moss, Jungle Trees or tall grass.

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     Jun 26, 2012 at 12:30 am
  3. garvamatic
    Posts: 9

    i loved it!!! well worth becoming a citizen for. however, i’m in 2.63 and my alpha areas on the plane stay black in both object and edit mode. am i missing something (watched repeatedly for hours!) orr has a setting changed maybe? anyone know?

    p.s. i hope Porter makes more tuts, i hope there are more plant type tuts in general, more low poly tuts of course, and i also hope you all have an excellent day!

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     Jul 30, 2012 at 5:16 pm
  4. thcj2000
    Posts: 3

    don’t be disappointed. if you get citizen account you can download ALL the citizen content for just 10$… that is NEARLY for free. the tutorials are worth it! instead of complaining about a fee, please realize how much 1st quality turorials you recived from them. they PAY their time, they provide their knowledge, their bandwith… 10 dollars… comeon ..starts beeing awkward

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     Aug 30, 2012 at 6:10 am
  5. John Naxio
    Posts: 23

    Superb tutorial! I’ve noticed the pictures you used don’t have any highlights or even mid-tones, there is no glossiness. I went in the garden and took a bunch of high-res pictures. I have great foliage to work with but i need help to get rid of the highlights somehow.

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     Sep 10, 2012 at 1:33 pm
  6. serviteur
    Posts: 11

    How to download the tutorial Video ?

    No direct links !!!

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     Oct 18, 2012 at 7:39 pm
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2965

      Hi there,

      You can download the video and the tutorial source files via the “Download Source Files” button below the video; but you must be logged into your Citizen account.

      Cheers,
      Jonathan

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       Oct 18, 2012 at 9:00 pm
  7. serviteur
    Posts: 11

    Hi,

    Thanks Jonathan !

    Best regards

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     Oct 21, 2012 at 1:53 pm
  8. monkeyadam
    Posts: 3

    Hi,

    I create my plant, and in the view mode the normal texture reads as expected, but when I go to render the normal has no effect and the surface just renders out smooth. Is there a step I’m missing?

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     Dec 7, 2012 at 10:12 pm
  9. Christian Hadirahardja
    Posts: 1

    Thank you for the tutorial, but the voice volume is very low.

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     Mar 25, 2013 at 11:22 am
  10. Ricardo Diaz
    Posts: 95

    There is no videotutorial for the creation of foliage…the video in the source files+videotutorial is the video of another citizen tutorial…”UV Texture to UV Color”…please fix it soon and upload it again! :(

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     Apr 7, 2013 at 3:36 am
    • snowconesolid
      Posts: 23

      Yeah Ricardo is right. I recently downloaded it and the video it comes with is the wrong one. It is for the UV Texture to UV Color video. Hope it gets fixed soon, I was looking forward to seeing how to create low poly foliage.

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       Apr 8, 2013 at 8:16 pm
    • mary_fisher
      Posts: 2

      Yes, can second that.

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      60.2
       May 8, 2013 at 3:17 pm
  11. jjoshfrank
    Posts: 1

    yup, still the wrong video

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     Apr 22, 2013 at 1:21 pm
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