Guest Lottmedia Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Not to seem ungrateful for the meteoric advance of 3DC, but when are we gonna see an update to the tree generator? I just love it. Casey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lottmedia Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 PS, and could somone please tut me how to make the leaves (boards) work? I can't remember if it's a clipping mask or transparency or what, it's been a while since I've used billboards and even then I was flaky with them C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Shpagin Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Now, before 2.10 speed of work becomes simply mad. So I have no time to update tree at least until 2.10. If you have concrete requests, please write it there. I can open sources of trees generator, if someone wants to develop it I will appreciate. If someone will make tutorial, it could be really good. Leafs problem seems to be solved at least for render, so tutorial is really required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ztreem Posted August 2, 2008 Member Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 PS, and could somone please tut me how to make the leaves (boards) work? I can't remember if it's a clipping mask or transparency or what, it's been a while since I've used billboards and even then I was flaky with them C I asume that we are talking about using the trees in LightWave. Just save out the tree with the button 'AutoSaveToOBJ(separate leafs)', now load the object into Layout and apply a UV clipmap using the transparency map(you may have to invert it to get it to work properly) now set the leaf surface to double sided and render. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member paulrus Posted August 12, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Andrew - I sent you an email, but I'll post here as well. I'm working on a project where I need to show a tree growing in XSI. I've tried a few methods and haven't found anything that really works well. Is there a way to get the tree generator to output something like morph targets? Programs like XFrog will generate a sequence of OBJs, but XSI loads them all into memory which can be too much to deal with. XFrog does a good job of "growing" a tree, but the interface is pretty terrible. I'd love to be able to use your tree generator for this project. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member wailingmonkey Posted August 12, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 paulrus...were you aware of this product as well?: http://simartom.com/index.php (native tree generator inside XSI, so you could keyframe your creation as it's 'grown' I'd imagine...prolly need the pro version for that, but it's reasonably priced.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member paulrus Posted August 12, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 paulrus...were you aware of this product as well?:http://simartom.com/index.php (native tree generator inside XSI, so you could keyframe your creation as it's 'grown' I'd imagine...prolly need the pro version for that, but it's reasonably priced.) Yep - I've played with T-Gen. The problem with it is that it doesn't actually "grow" the tree, it just scales it up. So, while it can create very nice finished trees, it does a really poor job of creating that time-lapse look I'm going for. Thanks! Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Shpagin Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 There is no problem in making growth stages - just tweak parameter "Branch to root relative size" in several levels. It is not easy to get morph targets because of optimisation of objects - try to set "Curving threshold for optimisation" to 0. But tree will be slightly hi-poly in this case (10-20 k of polygones). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Shadow Dragon Posted October 11, 2008 Member Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 Am I missing something here? I am using V2.10.10, and I don't see any tree generator. Am I not looking in the right place? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member lc8b105 Posted October 11, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 Am I missing something here? I am using V2.10.10, and I don't see any tree generator. Am I not looking in the right place?Thanks. Hello Shadow, Tree generator is free for everyone who has purchaced 3D-Coat. You can download it from here: http://3dbrush.kriska.hvosting.net/forum/i...t=0&start=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Oliver Thornton Posted December 5, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 This video may be helpful to anyone growing trees for LW: ftp://ftp.newtek.com/multimedia/movies/LW_9/Fiber_Leaves.mov -Oliver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member NinjaTaco Posted December 10, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 This is a tree generator made at standford. Outputs objs. You can pick species of tree and blend between different species. http://dryad.stanford.edu/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Not quite trees, but this is a cool little freeware program that will grow ivy around an object. I haven't tried it personally, but I think I read people saying it was easy to use and had no problems. http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/ This video may be helpful to anyone growing trees for LW:ftp://ftp.newtek.com/multimedia/movies/LW_9/Fiber_Leaves.mov -Oliver BTW I used this technique to make some vines for a recent project and it worked really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Pilou Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 A very nice free one FRECLE http://www.frecle.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=780 (scroll, link to download is under images! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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