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By default, only Leaves and Buds are created as you paint. You can also
create Branches, Twigs, and Flowers to simulate a fern in various stages
of its natural life cycle.
3 Turn on Flowers. Paint on the canvas to see the result.
4 Open the Leaves section, change Leaves in Cluster to 4, then paint on
the canvas.
Leaves are created in radial clusters around a branch or twig. This setting
defines how many leaves are in each cluster. The higher the number, the
denser the foliage.
5 To make the flowers point in a different direction, open the Behavior
section and then the Forces section. Set Path Follow to 0.1.
6 Paint to see the result.
Saving brush settings for future use
When you first selected the preset brush fern.mel previously, Maya copied it
to the template brush. You then edited the color and various other attributes
of the template brush to create a unique ferns brush. The next steps show how
to save the current settings of the template brush for future use.
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