Particle Flow Proxy Trees

[Itoosoft]

Check out Bobo's script in this thread which makes the process much quicker when using PF/bitmaps to position proxies.
Also LSGardener, Advanced Painter, G-Tools Planter, Groundwiz and VrayScatter might be useful.

I would like add to to the list our software Forest Pack. The latest beta release includes native support of VRay/Mental Ray to create instances of proxies/meshes at render time.

Regards,
Carlos.

[duke2]

I'd be really into forest pack for billboard trees if it had some kind of lighting system for the billboards. For a while games have had fast particle shading using a sort of bulged normal map and rayleigh shading and stuff.

Add a bit of this too!:
http://www.drone.org/tutorials/light...t_objects.html

[Itoosoft]

The problem of normal maps is that to build them, you need a 3D tree. But then, you can use it instead a billboard and get better results... at least with the new raytracers, that are very efficient using proxies and instances.

Regards,
Carlos.

[sjmoir]

Hi
How do you manage overlapping of trees?
I scatter trees with particle flow method but many trees overlap. I found a KEEP APART operator but I can't make it work.
Which method do you use to overcome overlapping of distributed objects?

When using the Position Object Operator, I tick the Seperation and Delete Particles If Location Is Invalid boxes.

[giraffe]

ohhh so easy I have been trying to manage this for many days ... I will try your advise. thanks so much