Once you’ve selected a plant partChoosing_a_plant_part_for_posing and posedPosing_and_unposing_plant_parts it, you can rotate it. You don’t have to worry about “this part and all parts above it” for rotating as you do for hidingHiding_plant_parts_by_posing or scalingChanging_scaling_of_plant_parts_by_posing, because rotating always rotates everything above any plant part. It has to – the parts are all stuck together.

To rotate a posed plant part,

▪        You should have already selectedChoosing_a_plant_part_for_posing and posedPosing_and_unposing_plant_parts the plant part, and you should see some posing checkboxes in the Posing panel for that plant part.

▪        Check the box labeled Add an extra rotation to this part of.

▪        Click the up or down arrows for the edit boxes labeled X, Y, or Z degrees, or type a new number in one of the boxes and press Tab or Enter.

Tips on rotating parts

▪        PlantStudio will let you rotate a plant part that is hidden. Just be aware that it might not make any difference.

▪        The X, Y and Z rotations might have different effects depending on what direction the plant part is facing. Just try them and see what happens.

▪        You can produce a curved stem by rotating each internode in turn, thus:

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