Up to you Chris. What do you think would be easier? It could be kind of nice to have the load with the antlers. Sure if you want to hand them over to me once you get the mapping done I will see what I can come up with. I'll take some photos of the ivy plants we have and work with something on the leaves. You can change the scale on the flowers too or incorporate the different models.
However, if you parent them, you could also use them in different areas of the deer besides just the antlers like in the sculpture images also incorporating Lisa's A Curious Proliferation for the mushrooms and Curious Grasses and Vines.
Hmm ......... need to practice how that will look with the horse and the Curious elements. Something similar to this lol not green and a deer.
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Lisa also has several different crocus models so you could show the flowers in different states of bloom on the antlers for some variation.
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I also have some thoughts for some metallic type shader/textures on the antlers that would couple well with Laurie's silver/white whisper elements.