Jack Wallington

Thanks, that's a great tip about exulting the layer to not include the key - that answer it, thank you. (sorry I meant data tags in the question, I've been using those on sheet layers)

Hi everyone, I have a couple of questions with plant tags, I guess they are related really: Can anyone think of a way of easily creating a key, where I visually show each of the plants in 2D next to my planting plan, with the quantity and a details for the plant? I guess one way would be to manually place the key in the design layer, make each species of plant a group. But is there an official or better way of doing this? If I've placed, say three trees of the same species individually, is there a way of linking these with a plant tag, to count them up? E.g. showing a line linking each of them leading to one data tag with the name and details? Or do I have to group them in the design layer first? Thanks, Hope that makes some sense!

Hiya, I'm really enjoying the AI visualiser for image props of plants, it's not perfect yet of course but it is helping me fill out my plant library very quickly with stuff that is representative of the plant and correct colours. My big problem is that the props almost always come back like a cut bunch of flowers and no matter what phrases I put in, such as include the leaves, or show the plant to the crown or base, it rarely works. I wondered if anyone else has had any luck with cracking the leaves and flowers to produce a fuller prop? I've attached some of my more successful attempts! Admittedly the turkcap isn't successful at all, but it was at least sort of the right height and colour

You are a genius, thank you. I had some stray, invisible data from the survey I used. Which I deleted, without any noticeable effect on the plan or model.

I'm working on a new site model and when I'm zoomed out it looks as expected. But when I zoom in, the graphics go really blocky and hard to view. Is that normal or have I turned a strange setting on? It's quite hard to view when working in details.

EDIT: sorry please ignore me. I just found it in the Site Model settings and added a Minimum height, which was on 0. This happened to me in an earlier project and has just happened again. I now know why, because a site modifier was at Z0, but I've corrected that and the skirt is still down at 0. I can't find where to correct it, please can someone point me in the right direction?

Wow yes, that would be great! Look fab, well done.

Edit: I think I just answered my own question by finding the Plant data tag style in the Resource Manager.

I'm in the annotations of a sheet view and when I try adding Data Tags to plants, it's saying No eligible object is selected. Have I don't something silly? I've used data tags before fine, but they don't seem to be working now. The plants all have the main data fields filled in as plant styles.

Ah, brilliant, thank you so much Mike and Tom. And thanks for the tip about the gradient Tom.

Hello, I was wondering if there is a way of giving a Hedgeline a 3D texture? To make it appear fluffier and less blocky. I have tried adding an image to hedges in the model I'm working on, but for some reason they go completely transparent (I've attached screen grabs showing this), which I haven't worked out yet. But perhaps there is a better 3D texture I can use?

Hi Dave, if I save the AI image as Create Bitmap Object, it appears in the file like this: When I then create 2D plant style, within the menus I go to Create 3D from image but I only have a couple of textures in there, I can't find the image that has just been inserted into the file. It does work if I Save to File, naming it, import the image into the file and then create the model from that. I was wondering if I can skip that, and add it as Create Bitmap Object? Hope that makes sense, I might be asking something silly. Here's a cow parsley I made from an image, which is pretty good really, although I seem to have too much shadow on it - I haven't found any umbels on Globeplants or elsewhere yet. The leaves are more parsley like, and I've still not cracked how to generate the base of plants well. But overall, I can imagine this tool be invaluable soon.

I've just been playing with AI Visualiser and while it's clearly early days, it shows a lot of promise for textures and plant props - it has created a few usable props for me, although often it doesn't show enough of perennial plants, reflecting online photography's tendency to only show the flowers or part of the plant! I can imagine AI eventually being used to create full 3D props. I'm looking forward to future iterations.

Hi Dave, the AI Visualiser is great for plant props, it's a bit trial and error but I have managed to create a number of usable plants already. This is a novice question, but what is the name of the PNG it creates? I've managed to create a good plant bmp and it's in my model, but when I go to create plant prop, I can't see an obvious name for it

Thanks line-weight, yeah I think something like this would be great. I'd like perhaps a few more perennial habits and shapes, and to be able to change the flower colour to represent colour schemes well. I agree, it doesn't need every species under the sun, just a focus on the plant habits and colour. My guess is something like this will actually happen with AI in the near future.