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**czoog** · 25-10-2005, 06:26 AM

AWESOME! Thank you so much!

**Syclone1** · 25-10-2005, 06:27 AM

Thanks for the models George

Were these onyx trees btw?

-dave

**Da_elf** · 25-10-2005, 06:40 AM

yeah. thanks dude. a few of these ive gotten as well from various sources (turbosquid, 3dcafe, 3dplant, etc) but some i dont have

**armilla** · 25-10-2005, 06:56 AM

Cool. Thanks George, very kind!

**DaForce** · 25-10-2005, 06:57 AM

Wicked!!

Some of them look pretty good to be public domain... but mmm im not caring right now

**vince_1972** · 25-10-2005, 07:02 AM

Houa thanks'you very much!!!

Vince

**nvanherpt** · 25-10-2005, 07:06 AM

i wouldn't say any of these are onyx

they have issues about that sort of thing. but since they aren't...

**Gijs** · 25-10-2005, 07:14 AM

Thanks for sharing

**GeorgeP** · 25-10-2005, 07:16 AM

A couple of the trees are my own, created with the L-System plugin from BlurStudios. A couple of the others were generated with the foliage widget in Viz, and the rest are xFrog converted to Max - they were giveaways on a magazine CD, I think. The birch tree is definitely L-System, of the others, I disremember which is which!

The flowers were from various free websites - for non-commercial use, of course*. The birds are my own - each one is animated flapping its wings - if you'd care to give each a path to follow, they work great in fly-bys (pun intended). I think there's a sample script somewhere for random flocking along a path, I'd have to dig it out...

*Luckily, I don't make commercials...

**Da_elf** · 25-10-2005, 09:37 AM

ive got a scale problem. i usually keep max scale units to 1unit = 1inch. this is all done with 1 unit = 1mm when i import into my scene the scale gets way screwed out of proportion and when i try to change the unit scale inside (eg the flock) the birds are approximately 35feet in length and need to be seriously scaled down. now the problem with scale is that vray ive heard will still calculate the light interacting with the object as though it were 100% so light bouncing from one surface on a 35foot object might not make it to another surface in the same object. is this correct? and if so how do i fix this for the flock? and trees etc. they are all too large. normally i convert to editable poly , merge all into one shape and scale the vertext this way the object remains at 100% however the object is smaller

**GeorgeP** · 25-10-2005, 10:02 AM

I didn't know that about VRay! I've never had any problems with scale. But for this instance (a still?), I'd say ungrouping the flock then deleting the animation keys and attaching each of the birds into one object should work. Then if you go into sub-object --> vertex mode, you should be able to scale them as you wish and the object itself will still be 100%.

An alternative would be to scale down the flock object, then attach it to say, a box, them delete the box through sub-object --> vertex. If you select the box first, the flock will inherit its scale and pivot etc.

If you want to do an animation, then I think you'll have to delete all but 1 bird then start again

Sorry, Elf, I didn't think of that. 35ft birds! Hope they're not carrying bird flu...

...in fact, now I think of it, I've been feeling peckish all day...

**GeorgeP** · 25-10-2005, 10:08 AM

Wow! This was a popular post - reached my bandwidth limit on my domain! Guess that's it for today...

George

**Tog** · 25-10-2005, 10:09 AM

Thanks but:

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**Da_elf** · 25-10-2005, 10:09 AM

hehe

well. the plants im converting manually. but if anyone has a trick to doing this so that i can keep the keyframes that would be cool.

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