Hello, I am a junior enviromental artist and for the past few days I have been trying to create some fluffy trees following this tutorial for my environment but, dispite recreating carefully all the steps, my trees do not look the same.
The tutorial tree
My first try
I tryed the texture on a simple sphere that had around the same ammount of polys as the one from the tutorial. In order for the textures to work all the polygons need to be about the same size and you need to unwrap all of them individually. For the material I copied the one from the video and added some more parameters from this other tutorial (the first tutorial used this video as inspiration and the parameters are the same on both).
My material
Even though I followed it closely, every time I touch the Billboard scale and the Texture size parameters, my textures seem to rotate wiredly and deform themselves and look really bad and not like the first tutorial ones at all.
I have been trying to solve this problems for a few days. I have tryed with other shapes and redoing everything over and over, looking on the internet por possible solutions but my only idea was to edit the normals from the sphere so they are vertical instead of following the curve from the sphere and this seemed to kinda make it look better but they are still not like in the video.
Left one has the usual shpere normals and the right one is the one I modified (I tryed moving them a few different ways but this one gave me better results)
Having the normals complitly vertical stopped the textures from deforming and rotating on weird ways but you can see trough them and it is still not like the one from the tutorial.
I am complitely lost. I don’t know if the tutorial ommited a step or something but I don’t know how to get my tree to look the same way. Like I said before, I am a junior artist and still have so much to learn.
Does anyone have any ideas to make it look better?
It is my first time posting here, if the pictures and links dont work I also made a post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnrealEngine5/comments/10mf4g8/need_help_creating_fluffy_trees_51v/