leaves turning and falling

[kasido]

Im trying to replicate this plant

 

I get to this point where I am quite happy with it

 

the problem comes when I try to bend the main trunk, all the leaf seem to turn around the trunk and fall in the same direction

I've found that I can avoid this using after mesh modifiers

But now that i want to create a bigger plant with severals trunks I can't control the direction of this trunks with after mesh modifiers.  

I can fix it changing the angle bend for the leaves from 1 to 20, but then i'm loosing the effect that the leaves are breaking off the trunk.

 

Whats the proper way to do this effect?? or how can I avoid the leaf doing this??

[kasido]

alpinia zerumbet.max

here is the file with the plants

[Tobitobs]

hello kasido,

 

I'm not sure if I understand what you trying to do. You want your "growfx006" look like the "growfx005" just with several trunks?

Have you tried to set Vector_direction modifier of the leaves to "Local vector"?

[kasido]

hi totibobs, thanks for your answer. To make the question simple lets just focus on the second and third picture. What I want to do is bend the plant and not have all the leaves falling to the left. 

[Eduard]

Hi kasido,

 

I tried using a local vector to specify the direction of the leaves. After the leaf leaves the trunk, we use the global vector...

Please see my screenshot:

 

And max-file: alpinia zerumbet_1.max

 

Thanks!