Apologies for the late feedback @wardred
I can see in your file that you’re doing a lot to stay true to the artwork. This is admirable but you can relax this commitment when it comes to the MG trees. The idea is that I will be able to duplicate your tree around to several locations. Which means it shouldn’t be to matchy matchy to a certain tree. Just get close-ish to the shape, within the spirit of the art, and you’ll be golden👌
Also Lampel has run a test and confirmed that the alpha-mapped approach to leaves is far more efficient than the individual particles. Check out the livestream from Thursday (starting around 50 min) for a demo of this workflow. It’s for a bush in the stream but the exact same workflow applies to tree leaves as well.
