I’m trying to make a forest scene in Blender, and I’m using hair on the branches to add the leaves, and hair on the trees to add the braches, and hair on the ground to add the trees, but the branches (and the leaves) aren’t appearing on the tree when it’s added onto the ground! Please help!

found this: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/5961/how-can-particles-be-emitted-from-particles edit: sorry spoke too soon, doesn’t seem like I can get it to work.

It is far better to add tree and bush assets ( several different types,sizes and styles ) in their own collection, and then you can dynamic paint you emitter plane to place, and particle hair use the collection, with random… less expensive for computing…

I had the same problem and found an answer on those posts: [image] Particle system plants trees without branches Particles and Physics Simulations I believe the particle objects cannot have particle systems of their own. If you select your tree then use the ‘make instances…

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T1chy April 2, 2020, 5:25pm 5

I had the same problem and found an answer on those posts:

Hope you find them helpful

Additionally, I had to set the ‘Whole Collection’ in particle settings:

Sapling Tree Gen To Particles Help.