How to make plane as tree leaf (2 side plane) like in GTA Vice City?

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1

I’m really interesting in GTA Vice City tree style (just 2 plane for all the tree leaf). Thus I want to remake this palm tree: [119640-palmvc.zip|119640]. When I put this fbx into Unity, I can see that Unity renders 2 side of the plane, (but it doesn’t perfect, you can see the glass-like on the leaf → the plane isn’t completely transparent)
119643-vicecityunity.png
But when I try to remake this tree, my tree can’t archive 2-side-plane.
My Tree

So I have 2 issues:

  1. How to make a 2-side-plane for leaf? I tried to find that secret in the file PalmVc.fbx (check the link PalmVc.zip above), but I haven’t found out.

  2. How to remove the glass-like on the leaf plane: Make the plane completely transparent?

Thanks for reading :slight_smile:

2

This is due to shader problem . So i say ,go to asset store and download double sided shader by ciconio studios . And after u place ur png image on the plane , a material is generated automtically , go to the material and change the shader to ciconio double sided transparent cutout.

There you go your problem is solved.

3

If you intend no wind Animation on your tree this shader should work fine…

Shader "CustomShaders/DiffuseCutout" {
Properties {
    _Cutoff("Alpha Cutout",Range(0,1)) = 0.15
    _Color ("Main Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
    _MainTex ("Base (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
    _BumpMap ("Normalmap", 2D) = "bump" {}
}

SubShader {
    Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }
    LOD 400
    Cull off

CGPROGRAM
#pragma surface surf Lambert addshadow

sampler2D _MainTex;
sampler2D _BumpMap;
fixed4 _Color;
fixed _Cutoff;

struct Input {
    float2 uv_MainTex;
    float2 uv_BumpMap;
};

void surf (Input IN, inout SurfaceOutput o) {
    fixed4 c = tex2D(_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex) * _Color;
    o.Albedo = c.rgb;
    o.Alpha = c.a;
    o.Normal = UnpackNormal(tex2D(_BumpMap, IN.uv_BumpMap));
    clip(tex2D(_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex).a * c.a - _Cutoff);

}
ENDCG
}

FallBack "Legacy Shaders/Transparent/Cutout/BumpedDiffuse"
}
4

I know i’m late, but you can actually just go to the materials folder, inspect the material of the palm tree, then click the shader, click Particles > Standard Surface, then click Double Sided