This is similar to a 'trick' people also do with 2.5d landscaping components to create a shadow. 3D landscaping componenets can add too much geometry. 2.5d face me components are composed of a few transparent PNG images of foliage tilted back 30-45 degrees from the blue axis. Note that the transparent PNG image will cast a rectangular shadow if cast shadow property is checked. To make an attractive foliage shadow, a dedicated face is painted with an invisible PNG material. A foliage profile is made on the transparent material and the plane perimeter is then erased.

Make an invisible material in your image editor. A very small square painted with any color will do. Set the layer opacity to 1%. Save the file as a transparent PNG. In Photoshop I usually just go to File > Save to Web to make the transparent PNG.

Import that material and paint the building. If you made the building a group or component and did not paint individual faces, just paint the group with the tranparent material. Hide edges if you want separately.

I made a new material with opacity set to 0%.  Hide the edges and paint a group with this.  If you plan on doing this more than once, save the material in a custom favorite material library.Επισυνάψεις (1)

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