Look for and open the tree’s opacity map, the one with the black background. Still in the Materials Editor, activate “Cutouts” by making click in the little square beside this section. Close the Texture Editor when you finish. Modify “Width” and “Height” values until you find the right combination for your tree. (Look for the chain icon at the right side of this section). In “Scale”, unlock the aspect radio button, so you can modify the image’s dimensions freely. In this window, find the “Repeat” section at the bottom and change the value for “Horizontal” and “Vertical” to “None”. Select the material, right click, Edit, and click in the tree’s image in “Generic”. If you see nothing, don’t worry, we only need to scale correctly the material. In this moment you must be seeing part of the tree in the image’s rectangle.Ĭlose the materials editor momentarily and drag the material to the tree’s surface. Look for and open your tree’s normal image, the one with the white background. In “Generic”, click in the white rectangle beside “Image”. Select the new material, right click, Edit, and wait for the material to load. Adjust in some way the Materials Browser window so you can see both, the surface and the Materials Browser, at the same time in the screen.
#INSERT ARROW IN AUTOCAD HOW TO#
Isn’t it lovely and easy this method on how to insert trees in AutoCAD? Step 4 is waiting for you: In the first section of this window, select the Global material, right click, Duplicate. In the Visualize tab, Materials section, click in the Materials Browser icon. Click in the Visual Style Controls (look at the blue arrow in the image above) and select Realistic. It doesn’t need to be accurate.Īfter this, we’ve got a big surface in the drawing area, similar to the one in the image below: Click in any part of the screen to start the surface, and then, move the mouse down and click until you see the size of the surface matching your tree’s proportions. Click in the Surface tab in the Ribbon, and then in Planar. If it not, click in the Workspace Switching button at the lower-right corner of the screen and change it. If you have not these things right now, don’t worry, at the end of this post you will find the Resources section in there, you will find a tutorial on how to create the opacity map of an image, step by step. To follow this tutorial correctly, you need to have at hand the image’s normal and opacity map, as you can see at the image below: So, if you want real tree shadows in the render, you need to tell AutoCAD how the shape of the tree is built, and here is where the opacity map comes into scene. And that’s not a good thing for your portfolio, right? While AutoCAD can display transparent images easily, the method of simply inserting the image in the drawing is not recommended if you are working in 3D, because you will notice a bad square shadow in the tree, in the rendered image.