We have to take care of the surrounding plants and the leaves on those stems. Here, we will make the smaller raindrops that randomly fall on our mint bush. We will also cheat some motion on the overall plant as well, faking some windy motion to disturb our plant, so that it doesn't just stiffly sit there. Complete tutorial videos and project scene files here: TIME STAMP LIST 00:00:08 - project setup 00:04:28 - prepare plant_drops sim on single leaf (leaf anim) 00:13:31 - cache out leaf animation 00:14:28 - prepping water droplet splash (vellum sim) 00:24:48 - deforming leaf stem (with leaf geometry) 00:28:14 - flipbook progress (leaf with splash) 00:31:54 - export leaf and droplet animation as alembic file 00:31:59 - select plant leaves to copy animation to (*.abc file) 00:33:51 - array and for-each loop to place orient leaf animation to plant leaf selection 01:00:16 - minor corrections and adjustments on the “assembled“ plant 01:04:5
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