TREES TREES TREES

[guest]

can someone please, if you guys have one(tutorial) on how to model trees send it right on over here i would really appriciate it.

[guest]

trees trees trees

maybe if someone has a site that i can get a tutorial on trees that would be great too ... thanks

[Ron Martin]

Whats so difficult about trees? If you don't want to do it yourself - try onyxtree. Really cool plugin for max!

[Da_elf]

i wrote this a long time ago. now i just use x-frog
http://www.3dluvr.com/content/article/90

[freak]

no offence da elf....the tree u made in the tut. looks funny (i can c that in the rendering).....

[Da_elf]

yeah. like i said. it was a while back. The tut was titled How to make a bonsai. However i never did get around to the texturing part of the tutorial

[doan]

Excuse me for my ignorance ; I though Onyx Tree Factory was a standalone programm not a plugin for max.

[dejaVu]

doan,
Onyx has a stand alone program called Onyx Tree Professional which allows you to model trees from scratch.
However, they also have a plugin for max which aloows you to load in Tree files and alter parameters.

The set up is similar to SpeedTree Max and SpeedTreeCAD.

[beestee]

One of the recent 3D World magazines included a full version of Xfrog on their CD, if you are using Max 6, download the newest import plugin from the xfrog site rather than using the one that comes on the 3D World CD.

Once you have found that, at the following website, you can download some free basic trees in *.xfr format to help you get the grasp of the tool: Xfrog Public Plants

There is also a tutorial in the magazine that goes through the process of making one of the sample trees that are on the CD.

[nscandiaca]

One of the recent 3D World magazines included a full version of Xfrog on their CD, if you are using Max 6, download the newest import plugin from the xfrog site rather than using the one that comes on the 3D World CD.
Once you have found that, at the following website, you can download some free basic trees in *.xfr format to help you get the grasp of the tool: Xfrog Public Plants
There is also a tutorial in the magazine that goes through the process of making one of the sample trees that are on the CD.

bestee, i find that xfrog models take very long time to render ... is it just me or do you experience that too?

[beestee]

"Guest" was wanting to know how to model a tree, and I think XFrog is an excellent tool for completing such a task.

In every project I have done, I have to sacrifice for the client's preferences. Sometimes that sacrifice is time, and others, it is detail. If your project allows more time, and has few trees (for me, 1 to 5), XFrog is an excellent, cheap solution for very high detail scenes.

By the way, if you are downloading the .max versions from the public website, you may try using the importer plugin and directly importing the .xfr trees. If I remember correctly, I did have some trouble with VRay and the .max versions of those trees, but I have not done any tests to see if there is really any difference.

[budd]

try treemaker on script spot if you want a 'cheap as chips' solution!

[sykes]

i found this one on 3dkingdom on, no plugin needed ! hope it will help ya

http://www.3dkingdom.org/modules.php...rticle&sid=464

[the pidge]

xfrog trees

I have found that using xfrod trees, really slows down my rendering times,but the end result is awersome,I read somewhere that the GI solutions that Vray calculates has trouble with xfrog.does anyone know if this theory is true.

[losbellos]

treemaker is much better than those opacity mappad trees (speedtree and all of them which are makes the leafs by putting mask and texture on a plane). And renders faster also. You can make in 5 min custom leafs, flowers, fruits whatever u want and it is free. Very useful.