Tree textures
I started with making some alphas for the leaf canopy by using the pen tool in Photoshop to draw a leaf shape. Then I duplicated it a few times until I got the desired pattern.
Then I proceeded to make a tree canopy shader in Unreal Engine. I followed a in-depth tutorial by Victoria Zavhorodnia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BfZSfX6_Go) Setting up the shader was fairly easy but once I applied it to my tree canopy I noticed that colour and leaf shape did not show.
After playing around with it for a while I managed to get the colour to work after adjusting some of my settings and eventually figured out that the leafy shape wasn't working because I did not unwrap the image planes that made up my tree canopy.
Therefore I unwrapped my tree canopy in Maya and re-exported it to UE and the shader finally worked.
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