- [Instructor] Camtasia allows you to do more
than just change the color of leaves on your trees.
It also allows you to add the effect
of falling leaves from your trees.
To add that effect,
select on Objects over on the left-hand side,
then go to Effects.
Select inside of this box,
then from the Effects Library,
click on the Leaves tab.
Under the Leaves tab
you'll see three different default leaf variations.
Red leaves, yellow leaves
and various yellow and green leaves.
Let's go with leaves_01,
the various yellow and green leaves.
As you move your cursor around the scene,
you'll see a box.
These are the leaves that you're about to place.
They're inside of your scene.
I want to have the leaves falling from this tree
right here in the center of our scene,
so move the box so that it's right
at the base of the tree and then click.
Now if I wanted to place more leaves into the scene
I could continue to click
but for right now I'm just going to leave the leaves
that we're seeing falling here from the tree.
I'm hitting the escape key once on the keyboard
to get out placement of leaves
but as we look at these leaves
it really just looks like some leaves
that have been on the ground
and are now blowing around.
I'd like to give the appearance of these leaves falling
from the tree itself.
But right now the leaves are fairly close
to the ground, so let's change the height
of the leaves by clicking on the Change Height tool.
Click on the circular shape, hold your mouse button down,
then move the leaves up to about the 12-foot mark.
Now it looks like the leaves are actually falling
out of the tree.
Unfortunately though it also looks like at this rate
the entire ground is going to be covered in leaves
in just a few minutes
and three or four hours
the entire tree is not going to have any leaves in it.
So, what we need to do is slow down
the fall of the leaves.
When we put the leaves inside the scene
we've got the properties for those leaves
over here on the right-hand side.
The reason why the leaves
are the color that they are
is because of where the circle is located here
in the colors.
To change the color of the leaves
just click on the circle
and then drag it over until you see the color
of leaf that you want falling from your tree.
I usually leave brightness alone
because there's really no reason
to have brightness associated with a leaf.
Though if you clicked and did decide
to make your leaves brighter
you can start to see what happens.
There's options here for wind.
The X direction as well as the Z direction.
That just affects which direction the leaves will be blowing
from your tree.
Usually I leave these at zero as well
but that's up to you.
Create the kind of scene you want
with the leaves blowing in the direction
that you want them blowing.
There's an option here for type.
As I pull type over
it will change the type of leaf that we're looking at.
There's an option for amount
and for what we want to accomplish
amount is really going to be the best command.
If we click on amount, then pull it from right to left,
the further to the left that you pull,
the fewer leaves that you will have falling.
So, if you only want to have a few leaves
falling in the scene,
make your amount be some number less than 100
and then you'll have only a few leaves
falling down from the tree.
There's also an option here for size.
As the name kind of indicates
that's the size of the leaves falling from the tree.
Far left-hand size, very tiny leaves,
far right-hand side,
fairly large leaves.
Usually I leave it right around the middle
but if those leaves are farther away
I'll make the leaves bigger
so that they're easier to see from a distance.
So, by coming over here to Objects
and using the effect which allows you
to place leaves here inside of your scene,
you can have falling leaves
blowing in different directions
of whichever color that you choose
and whatever type and size of the leaf
that you want falling from your tree.