This is the alien plant I used as the " Alien" In the middle of the egg.
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Here is the plant selection screen.
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This is the plane editor, which allows me to manipulate the branches and roots etc. This allowed me to create the alien from the basic plant.
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The egg is made from a primitive sphere, just pulled into shape.
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I chose the moon as the basic planet background.
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I added these clouds.
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I used Tropical water for a nice greenish hue.
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This is my custom texture that I made using an alpha plane and a simple photograph.
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First select the alpha plane primitive, the one that allows you to place an image on it.
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Here is the actual photograph I'm going to use for the texture. I have vue set up so my texture library in "My Picture folder" is accessible through vue's menu system, this makes it faster to find the images required.
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Here's the alpha plane image loader, as you can see, the "Alpha" map at the bottom is black and white. Vue converts any image(jpg's) selected as an "Alpha image" into black white automatically. The alpha map or image is the transparency of the material. So if you don't want it transparent just leave out loading the alpha map.
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This is the alpha plane completed.
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I right clicked on the material preview window and selected "Edit material" Vue opens the material editor with your photo appearing as a material, only now with lots more editing functions available.
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Click the last tab on the right that say "Effects" on it. Then select rotation, a pop up menu appears allowing you to twist and turn the material, this is how I got the vein type effect.
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Then finally click on the small disc radio button at the bottom of the material editor, save your material for future use.
Final result
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