Questions for the New Year: Plant Sculpt vs Plant Mesh

Originally shared by Lelani Carver

Questions for the New Year: Plant Sculpt vs Plant Mesh

Is there a better way to do this? Chic Aeon said I could ask, it's all her fault. ;) I'm a serial n00b with Blender; I keep coming back to it in fits and starts.

Rather than have a bunch of plant sculpts on my "castaway island" standalone (which are all sourced from a Linda Kellie OAR), I made a mesh object with 3 crossed planes in Blender. They both look about the same (but neither is all that great, they're obviously 2D masquerading as 3D). I have alpha blend set.

Is the mesh object always the way to go? Probably, although I'm not certain my "3 crossed planes" hack is the right way to do a plant this way. At least LI=1.

I struggled to get the mesh object to take the texture; in the end I think I created one plane, unwrapped that and textured it, then added the duplicate angled planes without unwrapping them while the original one was still selected. I messed around with a "star" object with flat vanes, but couldn't figure out how to get it to take the textures.

They look identical, anyway. I'll keep the mesh and ditch the sculpts.