How to use Plant Models in Unreal??

[adhills]

There’s so many plant models online from sources like Globe Plants, Maxtree etc. However, the leaves and flowers have all been modelled as rectangular planes w. opacity maps. And this, unfortunately, creates a major translucency bottleneck in unreal.

So are all these plant models simply unusable at scale in unreal? Or is there a script that can magically use the opacity map to cut the leaf/flower planes and make them compatible with nanite?

Alternatively, perhaps there’s a way of tweaking the imported leaf/flower materials so that they properly function as opacity maps without leaving a translucent border as below…

Any help greatly appreciated,

Adam

[ZacD]

You’ll want to use the two sided foliage shading model for leaves.

[adhills]

Hi Zac, thanks for this. It’s helped to remove the border but the diffuse colour of the flowers are now blown out - as in preview on image left below. Did a quick search and people saying to reduce specular. So removed all reflections and still blown out. Any idea why?

Then when I switch shading model back to thin translucent correct colour shows:

Cheers,

Adam