Pruning branches

- One of the most fun things you can do…in PlantFactory is prune the plant.…You can actually chop off parts of the structure…and leave stumps behind.…And that's done with the Prune tool,…the little saw icon here.…If you left-click, you will prune once,…and then when you're done pruning…you'll be dropped into the Touch-up tool.…If you want to prune multiple times,…you can right-click on the saw icon.…I'm going to right-click and then…get in really close here on some of these branches.…

And as I hover my mouse across the branch,…you can see a red highlighting that'll indicate…where the pruning's going to take place.…I'll just click there, and I've pruned that branch,…and go up here, maybe prune this one as well.…Just click to chop that off, and we've left a stump behind.…And the primitive parameters specify…that this particular node has a cap on the end of it,…and if we wanted to change the shape of that cap,…we would just go into the segment node…and adjust the cap parameters.…

Pruning is a destructive act in as much as…