Going places...

[nick_grezz]

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Biebel can u share the "subsmooth" plugins.
Is it easier mapping fluid surface with subsmooth?


Thanks.
Nick

[kwistenbiebel1]

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The subsmooth plugin costs 22 dollar. You can get it at smustard.com.
The other plugins I mentioned can be found free at Sketchucation forum.

[will1113_cg]

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WOW!!! I must say that is brilliant!!
I have got to get myself that plugin & some xfrog trees!! they look great!!

[Free Agent_cg]

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Hey Biebel, i much prefer this to the indigo renders, and nice to see no grain :P

[nomeradona_cg]

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Biebel,

i saw the animation using other application at scf. I loooooooooooove it! sadly the animation in vray is crashing.

[ckosio_cg]

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biebel, thats amazing.. putting a window frames and glass on a shape like that was hard....

[Maarten_cg]

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Verry impressive renders Biebel!

So those trees and rodondendrons in front are again from the xfrogg collection? Hope the time will come i've time to take a look at xfrogg.


Keep op going! (i still use your famous plants pack )

[kwistenbiebel1]

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Thank you guys You're too kind.


@Nomer, I am trying to polycrunch the trees so I can still render an animation out.
I am polyreducing them to the point they have leaves floating in thin air ...hey, but I am not quitting, no sir .

@Maarten,
There are several good commercial tree packages on the market: Onyx Tree,Evermotion, Dosh, etc...
Xfrog is a good one as well, but be aware the trees have lots and lots of polygons.
Sometimes,when your model itself is already quite elaborate, using 2D billboards is the better choice for vegetation at a distance imo.

Sometimes it is even better to render without trees and photoshop them on the image, so they are easily changed when a client needs them replaced.

[andeciuala]

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hi, man you are doing great, very nice results there. i like it.

[thomthom]

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Sometimes,when your model itself is already quite elaborate, using 2D billboards is the better choice for vegetation at a distance imo.

I second that. With billboard trees I could do a very nice cluster of trees in the background where I only used a few 3D trees for the foreground. You can't tell the difference.

[Maarten_cg]

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Thnx for replying biebel en co!

I didn't search the internet so far for 2d/3d tree collections but i guess you have to pay for all of them isn't it? Or are there free or studentpackages?

[Jorgensen_cg]

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As always - very impressive work

Sorry I might have overseen it - but was the plants used from Xfrog ?

[Hector_cg]

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I have alot of Xfrog plants but i do not know how I can import that in sketchup someone of you can tell me how I can import the trees?

[kgoku]

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I still wonder how do you guys have so many xfrog trees. I think i saw someone sharing here but the post disappeared. Am i wrong?

[kwistenbiebel1]

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You will need auxiliary software like Blender, deep Exploration to shrink the polycount of those trees first, and save them as .obj or .3ds.

Without the poly reduction, Sketchup will crash without exception.

When you buy Xfrog, you will get an app called Xtune, which also can reduce the filesize of each tree.