Too bad the topic on ivy has been closed. I would have asked my question there but here’s a new topic
After playing with the genuine ivygen and also with the blender plugin, i noticed something really annoying:
It seems impossible to have control on leaves presence. lemme explain:
with normal leaves probability, i obtain a result with lower half having no leaves and upper half having a proper leaves density.
with high leaves probability, i obtain a nice result with billion leaves on the upper half making the mesh unusable ( i still don’t have bought this quantic computer i dream of )
Does anyone know a way of properly dispatch leaves over the branches ? if yes, please help !
thanks in advance for your answers.
happy blending.
EDIT: i noticed the forum is unable to search for ‘ivy’. The usual and findable keyword is ivygen.
Therefore if a nice moderator can change this thread title to ivigen instead of ivy it would really be nice of you thanks in advance !
Allright !!!
I never met Mr Python and his language
I never met Mr Blender and it’s API
but i gave it a try
In fact if leaves are left over from the bottom half of the plant, it’s not a chance. It’s on purpose !!!
It might be a good idea to consider, that lower leaves are older ones and therefore are dead and have disappeard.
But for those who don’t want this …?.. well you can’t except if you edit the script…
It’s precisely what i did inside blender.
I added a float factor on the bottom of the tools win where it’s talking about leaves. this factor available in the [0;1] domain
just trims the height coef for leaves presence. When my factor is 0, leaves are uniformly dispatched all over the branches, and when my factor is 1 then the leaves are dispatched just like they were before my changes.
please don’t expect the changes to be academic. i’m an old programmer but i really got no idea on python internals not more than on blender internals. Mebe i did real crap in this code !
So i cannot guarantee anything. Just to say it works fine and as wanted on my machine.
i mean… USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK
and just tell me if you like the idea
regards and happy blending !
EDIT: for example i’m just realizing i didn’t change the name of the original plugin. So installing it might generate conflicts…
I really don’t know how to change a plugin name if any1 knows how to, please feel free to do it and post the result here
EDIT2: For those mightiest of you, if you wanna see what i changed in the code, just search for
‘leafWeightInfluence’ and you’ll see the things i added. The only line i changed is the weight test
one ( line number 145 ). I commented it and added mine just after…
Reviving this just to say i changed some things in this addon to make it more user frendly, allowing multiple ivy non painfull edition
And also ( new features new use ) the ability to use collection of leaves for the leaves.
Of course This is 2.8+ ( i only tested it on 2.92 )
)
thanks in advance !
if any1 knows how to, please feel free to do it and post the result here 