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It's certainly a cool effect, not sure how I'd do that or if you'd find a tutorial on it.

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Here are two planes with opposite opacity maps. One plane has the bend modifier, which can be animated.
This would be close with a little more work. I'm not sure how to go about making the leaves fall though.

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Chris

Nice one man, good method.

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That's bloody awesome. Now can we promote him to leader of the free world? Please?

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heheh okay.

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HA!

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Haha, I rule.

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Hey,errr thanks! What do I say? Do I need body guards now?..hahaha.

Is there a way to make the edges sharper? It's not that noticeable in the example above but, I've noticed when making maps of any kind, (displace/bump) the edges always appear pixilated.

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Chris

Use higher rez maps? Up the sampling in the bitmap options?

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I know vray displacement has an edge length setting that you can tweak to decrease that pixelation.

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