This tutorial shows you how to make a custom plant for your call of duty 4 map. You have to know something about custom textures, read the custom textures tutorial first if you havent done it already. You need a alpha-transparency compactible program like Photoshop or Gimp.

First Step: Choose leaves for your new plant. If you dont have, open this page.

Second Step:  Edit the alpha background. Then your picture will look like this.

Third step: Convert your alpha masked picture to *.tga. Open your mod tools directionary (example: C:/Program~Files/Call of Duty 4 Mod Tools/*), and make a new folder ,"texture_assets", if you dont have. Insert your *.tga picture.

Fourth Step:  Converting. Open the Asset Manager (Compile Tools; Applications; Asset Manager) and make a new *.gtd file, if you dont have, like "textures.gtd". Now click "New entry", and name it after your texture, like "tropical_leaves_a". Use these settings and press F10 to convert.

Fifth Step: Making a prefab model for use in the radiant. Now you can open the radiant, make a new map like "tropical_plant_01". First you need a culm, make a new brush, then click "Patch; Primitives; Cylinder". Add a texture, I use "ch_grass_01", hold "Shift" and press "S" (Surface Inspector). Click "Natural" and "Done". Now cap the cylinder, "Patch; Cap". It will look like this.

Sixt Step: Construction of the plants leaves. Make a new brush in the size of your leave, then click "Patch; Simple Curve Patch", and make a 5/5 Curve Patch. Press "V" to change the vertex positions, and make a curved leave. Copy the current leave and make another. After this process your plant will look like this:

Hints: Some hints for you. You can make a specular map for more realistic leaves. I use crazybumb, there are many other programs for specular and normal maps. [Picture]

Move the leaves! You can rotate and scale your leaves. Use the toolbar functions in the Radiant. [Picture]

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