Photoreal trees

[stevesideas]

Sorry to bring up this old thread but I am looking into purchasing something that can animate trees well. I wasnt going to go with onyx because Im not sure how good the tree plugin was for wind animations and how compatable it was with vray animated proxies. Ive had a look at speedtree which looks amazing, but would I need the cinema version or games version..it looks blood expensive ! Can I burn the animations into vray proxies ? Growfx looks good too but im wondering how the animations and memory would translate to vray proxies. For the scene I want to construct I need a lot of trees...forest looking basically, very dense with a lot of the close up trees animated.

Any advice on this ?

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

is the TreeForge plugin in distribution somewhere?

[beestee]

is the TreeForge plugin in distribution somewhere?

I don't think so. Karba has been very busy developing other tools and has said in the past that TreeForge was too buggy for release.

Doesn't hurt to express interest though.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

it look awesome...would not mind paying a LOT for something like that

BTW...i wonder why the guys from ONYX dont do somethign with their plugin ....crappy interface and some of the features could use a facelift

[Neilg]

Who were those guys doing a complete set of ecosystem plugins? Their first one was plants & trees - supported wind and looked very detailed, I cant remember the name now though.

It was supposed to be coming out soon too.

[tricky]

I bought Bionatics and it never worked and if it did it looked awful. I think I payed $1,200 and never used it in production. It might have gotten better... I should look into updating my copy and see if it is more stable.

We also bought Bionatics years ago. We fell for the marketing shpeal and 1-to-1 treatment we got. We spent a fortune on the stuff, but I don't think we ever managed to use it successfully. It was awful.
(There was a french guy who was our main contact - I forget his name)

[instinct]

MDO Plants ?

http://mdo.emecstudios.com/

As posted here on the forums
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...t=Tree+Library

[tricky]

I was following that thread about MDO Plants for a while. It looked to be quite an exciting product. However, as far as I could tell, it has really turned into nothing. The authors seem to be a bit confused as to what will be available, when and how much it will be. From their site, it is also VERY confusing as to what is what.

I think they started promoting far too early.

[Morne]

MDO Plants ?

http://mdo.emecstudios.com/

As posted here on the forums
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...t=Tree+Library

I can't help to think they will blow their cashflow before the product is FINALLY released. It is still "coming soon"

[beestee]

Interesting new "meta mesh" feature for growFX:

http://www.exlevel.com/releases/#1_5_0

EDIT: Also looks like there are plans for making animation easier with these trees:

http://exlevel.com/forum/index.php?/topic/18-animation/

Onyx better watch out!

[tricky]

GrowFX does look very powerful and customizable. Impressive. However, it also looks VERY complex and involved. I've only just managed to get my head around Onyx!

[stevesideas]

It is very powerful and its a shame it doesnt come with too many examples, but once you take a look at the examples its pretty intuitive.

The new meta mesh feature seems very slow on my system and also caused the trunk to completely dissapear. Ive only tried it once though so maybe im doing something wrong.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

come on Karba, unleash your wonderful plugin!