BILL GORE Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 I need some some tree's for a rendering does any one have a suggestions Quote Link to comment
MikeB Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 This has been discussed several times, search the rendering forum and you should be able to find several links. The only one I know off the top of my head is www.3dcafe.com Good Luck Quote Link to comment
Kurt Magness Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 I prefer to take photos of real trees and use them in photoshop with a VWS final rendering. They look so much better. It seems like all the tree 3d models I have seen are not that great. They look like the fake christmas trees you see in drugstores at christmas time. There is a program that generates very realistic trees called Tree by Onyx Computing. Check out their web site: http://www.onyxtree.com The more realistic the trees, the bigger the file size, so it gets out of hand very quickly. Also the program is not cheap but it's the best i have seen. You can also use pictures of real trees to make your own 3d model by texture mapping the photos onto flat planes and placing them into your model. Quote Link to comment
Danielj1 Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 "You can also use pictures of real trees to make your own 3d model by texture mapping the photos onto flat planes and placing them into your model." If you're using VW10 with RenderWorks, you can also use a photo image of a tree to create an image prop, which is a 3-D object with a texture and transparency automatically mapped correctly. You also have the option of having the image prop automatically rotate toward the camera (or viewer) when rendering in various views (so that you don't see it on-edge, thus revealing its skinny side). Dan J. www.imageprops.com Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted June 12, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 12, 2003 Another way you could get trees into RW is to render them using something that does good natural trees like Vue D'Esprit (download the demo version) and use the image of the tree to create an Image Prop in VW/RW. This can be easier than finding a real tree with good lighting in front of a monochrome background or editing a picture in Photoshop. Quote Link to comment
Bart Rammeloo Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 If you need a third-party application for trees, check out greenworks - it has a better user interface than (Onyx)tree. And it wil be available as a plugin for Cinema4D. So you won't have to use heavy 3D-geometry in VW anymore Cheers, BaRa [ 07-07-2003, 12:18 PM: Message edited by: BaRa ] Quote Link to comment
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