trees without leaves...!!!!!

[goutham_cg]

hi guys,
when i render some plants they seem to have no leaves at all....please help me....
thank you in advance..

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: trees without leaves...!!!!!

goutham
Sometimes it is because Vray can't find the image files.
I tend to export the image file from the tree model, and also make an alpha file at the same time. Then save the model and re-load it - this usually fixes it.

(or it could just be the time of the year )

David

[goutham_cg]

Re: trees without leaves...!!!!!

ha ha....thank you David...for your wonderful comment....

[JHuman]

Re: trees without leaves...!!!!!

I have had this problem with a lot of my models. The objects are there but they wont render. So far it works to just save and close and reopen the model.

[goutham_cg]

Re: trees without leaves...!!!!!

thank you joe.. i will work on it...

[karamouza]

Re: trees without leaves...!!!!!

Please don't tell me that you are trying to fix what I've been trying to do for months, that is find or create some decent 3d trees that fill up the 'empty spots' of my renderings, but without leaves so they don't get in the way of my buildings!!!

[thomthom]

Re: trees without leaves...!!!!!

Please don't tell me that you are trying to fix what I've been trying to do for months, that is find or create some decent 3d trees that fill up the 'empty spots' of my renderings, but without leaves so they don't get in the way of my buildings!!!

Apart from deleting all the leave geometry, a quick fix would be to turn the leave material fully transparent.

[karamouza]

Re: trees without leaves...!!!!!

Usually you are right thomthom, but the trees made as components are not very accurate when it comes down to the smaller branches, since most people tend to give a good overall look for the tree they make.
If you take a 3d tree from sketchup's 3d warehouse and try to work on it, you will soon notice that apart from the leaves and the trunk, everything else is really poorly made.
Smaller brunches tend to disappear when you render them since they are made of thin lines in sketchup with no mass what so ever.
It's the leaves that make the tree in this case, not vice versa.