Blender Secrets - Mixing 3D Scanned Photogrammetry trees with Procedural MTree trees in Blender

The best of both worlds! Do you want the organic realism of nature for the trunk of your tree, but the ease of use of procedural trees for the rest of the tree using the free add-ons MTree or Sapling? Well, now you can using these tricks. It's mainly done using shader nodes and a baked texture extracted from the 3D scan. You don't even need to actually merge the geometry.

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