Reply To: COLLAB2021 – WIP – raisonhomme

[spikeyxxx]

Is that a “random integer pacemaker” on the far left

No, that is an Input >  Value Node. In the value field I typed in:   #frame

that way, the value is the same as the frame number.

This was not intended as an animation demo, but to show the you can make rotated looking leaves from ‘alpha planes’, without rotating the planes themselves 😉

There are other ways to do leaf animations, for instance use a Particle Hair System with Hair Dynamics and no Gravity.

Then add a Particle Instance Modifier on the leaves and check Create Along Paths.

Here’s a better picture than the GIF:

I’ll have to leave for a bit now, but after that I will visit discord again (been a while…).