How to Make a Palm Tree (Part 2)

     Back with another talk about the trees I am working on. Adding more leaves requires me to shape the leaves above the "pile" as to ensure I don't mess up the other leaves.

As you can see, I've added more leaves. A single leaf is above the "pile" being shapped.

Trying to fill it out nicely.

Do we think it has a nice head of hair? Lets try one more well-placed leaf...

    The last step is the hardest in a way... I have to give it the one-over, and see what it's missing. For starters, I do actually think it's missing the trunk roots. You can see, actual palm trees got this cool thing going on...
Splits open, and has visable roots.

Look at this! It's looking about right! Now I must scour the tree and see how much I really like it.

    Well, that's it. Thanks for reading. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention, All of the tiles for crocotile were made by me, I drew a bunch of leaves and the textures. I might explain 3D textures and my technique in a future devpost.


P.S.
Made a smaller one as well.

    Its more on scale for what most of the palm trees should be, the other one was indeed on the big side, but that's okay. Between this one and the big one, these are at the "extreme of the ranges". I needed to revisit what my scale was supposed to be and get my barrings.







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