New tool in the tree generator Arboretum: Vine

[gafl]

Hi !
A new update of the 1st series of Arboretum that comes with a new tool
to get vine like plantes.

Here is an example:



3 plantes come with this tool: Standard red flowers; glycine and seringuat
Some improvments in the shape of the leaves have been added too in
the 1st series of Arboretum.
Nothing new in the second one. Next step is the trunk texture that will be
improved with a displacement use.

Arboretum link:
http://glg86.chez-alice.fr/pages/arboretumpag.html

Bye !
Gael

[jacksc02]

nice one gael, can this be avalible as a seperate plugin?

[gafl]

This new tool is another free plugin added to the 1st series of arboretum
without any other charge. It's a simple tool that use the same folders than
Arboretum. It would give me more job to do a separate plugin.
For those who already have a licence of the 1st series can then,
download the las update.

The principle is very simple, draw a line to form the shape of your vine
and click to create the plante.
I'll try to show another test later.


Bye !
Gael

[DaForce]

Sweet!!

Do you have a texture like these?
http://www.sentex.net/~edc/VerticalG...01Richmond.jpg
http://www.adamsah.net/~asah/salzbur...1-DCP_0065.JPG

Also would it be possible, if you wanted say... a wall covered in vines, could you have something where you select some mesh and apply the vines to that, and the vines are sort of randomly created upwards along the mesh, or you use a few "guide" splines to show the general direction?
I think that would be a pretty cool feature.. althought might be a little tricky for you to make

[gafl]

Hi DaForce !
This is what I'm working on now, a vine along a wall or any other
florished plante like that (roses).
For a full viny wall, I think a displacement or particule system can do the
trick. So, I don't need to do it.
Nevertheless, a smaller vine not covering all a wall is more peculiar to
elaborate. There isn't a big difference with the vine tool I present today.
There are some simple changes to do but is somewhat different however.

The principle will be the same as the vine tool.
You draw a line from the ground to a certain heigth, then some branches
will appear on both sides with one ramification (for now, I can add more
if needed). so you will have to do several lines to cover a large part of
the wall.

Here is another example of the vine tool with a glycine and a small
seringuat along a wall.
Of course, the trees are made with Arboretum...



Bye !
Gael

[DaForce]

Ah ok .. cool

Vine looks pretty good.

( I havent played with it yet) but can you have a vine with no flowers at all .. just leaves? like in those images i showed you.

[gafl]

Yes !
I can do it at the next release.
Ok !

Bye !
Gael

[Paul Oblomov]

Maybe some closeups ? As I can't understand hows it workin'

[DaForce]

Thanks Gael!!

Good work

[gafl]

I'll put a close up later. I'm too much busy right now...

Gael