showing a forest on a site plan

[EricCamper]

I have a 3D Site plan with several hundred bldgs and tree and what not... I have several forested area on the plan that I want to show. All of these areas are alreadt polylined in CAD and I could just extrude then up say 40 feet and be done with it. But I am looking for ideas on how to show them better. Any suggestions are helpful.

Thanx all

[dellis]

Maybe render out some of your 3d trees from a top view and start placing them around the site plan!

[glorybound]

Trees

I would say remove the trucks and branches, just showing the crown. Use Proxies and scatter them. You can do thousands of trees this way without issues.

[EricCamper]

Dellis...Not quite....But good for my 2D Site ...I have a 3D View of a huge forest area that I am populating. The scene is really just suppose to be a "massing" and all of the homes are really just blocks.....But I always wanted more detail for the forest area. Bobby...I will give that a shot, but I was thinking some sort of bump map or displacement....Thanx

[glorybound]

Forest

How did this work for you?

[sea2stars]

The free version of forest might suit your needs; the paid version will work on terrains.