Using the plant presets and flow animation, you can make plants grow up a column.
To animate a plant growing up a column
- Select the column.
- Create a curve that spirals around the surface as follows:
- Make the column live.
- Select the .
- Click points on the column, tumbling the view to click points around the column.
- Select the curve.
- In the , select a plant preset brush (for example, fern.mel in the plants folder).
- Select Paint Effects > Curve Utilities > Attach Brush to Curves.
- Select Display > Rendering > Stroke Display Quality > to improve the wireframe display quality.
- With the new stroke still selected, open the and click the brush tab.
- Modify the brush settings until you are satisfied:
- Increase the .
- Under , increase the .
- Press the 8 hotkey to switch to the panel and select .
- Click the icon on the toolbar to render the stroke.
- Animate the growth as follows:
- In the , click the brush tab.
- Expand .
- Turn on , then change the value. In this example, we used 1.0.
- In the scene view, set the playback end time to 100 and click the button.
- Now in the , turn on .
- Go to the first frame and click the button.
- Render the animation. See Render a scene with Paint Effects strokes.