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Foliage

Love organic? A fan of trees, bushes and grass? These lesson will teach you to create all of them.

Introduction to Foliage

Dennis Welling

Theory

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Foliage

March 8, 2026

From understanding plant structure and biomes to building efficient pipelines and variants, this lesson breaks down how foliage is created for real-time worlds!

Introduction to Speedtree

Dennis Welling

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Foliage

April 19, 2026

Learn about the UI, Viewport and common editors that can be found inside of Speedtree.

Leaf Atlas and Leaf Cluster Creation

Dennis Welling

Practical

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Foliage

April 19, 2026

Foliage consists out of a lot of components working together, one of which is your foliage atlas, which contains all the texture information for your leaves, leaf clusters and branches.

Creating Grass

Dennis Welling

Practical

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Foliage

March 10, 2026

In this lesson we'll be exploring how to make your own grass, going from creating your own foliage atlas, setting up foliage cutouts in Speedtree to then create our own grass meshes from.

creating a holly bush

Dennis Welling

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Foliage

April 19, 2026

Let's create a bigger item of foliage now, using previous lesson on creating foliage atlasses to create a holly bush.