I’m playing with nanite and trying to get a tree with 3d model leaves work (no alpha clipping, straight up modelled geometry) but viewing it from a distance the leaves disappear.
I found online that checking preserve area should help with this but it doesn’t seem to work for me at all.
Can you please point me in the right direction?
I found found tutorials for alpha clipped trees where playing with the opacity mask threshold (or something similar) in the material can help but as I don’t use alpha clipping this is (obviously) greyed out for me and wouldn’t do anything even if changed.
PS: I know this is not how I’m supposed to create foliage, I just threw this together in blender quickly to test out a concept and accidentally found this behavior.
I feel like I need to ask the obvious… Did you try actually connecting these leaves with branches?
One on hand, I feel like encountering issues like this is predictable… When each leaf is a separate island of geometry, Nanite can’t reasonably form patches or collapse the geometry.
On the other hand, I decided to test this by generating a ball of “leaves” which were just quad planes oriented randomly, surrounding a red ball (which would be visible if the leaves disappeared) and I was unable to reproduce your issue…
