Talu Swamp Development

[Koniption]

Originally posted by morcroft
I made the tree below as a test using blender and a freeware called ngplant as described in this tutorial. It's a procedural generator, so you define the characteristics of the plant and it sort-of grows it.
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Clearly, it's no speedtree; and there's an awful lot wrong with it at the moment - especially the textures, but is it anywhere near the right track? It's around 4000 tri's - a bit big, I know, but there's probably scope to decimate it down a bit.
The key thing is that if this is usable then I can make variations on the theme by varying the parameters and seed value in ngplant and get it to do the heavy lifting. And it doesn't add to Koniption's workload!
By the way, there are some really nice trees made with ngplant but I tried importing the eucalyptus and it was 30,000+ polys! I have made compromises...!

Whoa! Blender can do that with ngplant!? Yeah, it could use retexturing and other tweaks, but so far what has been done saves a lot of work and time from the start.

I have not started the tupelo tree yet, so feel free to do what you can on this tree. If you need or want me to finalize the tree by me adding certain features (moss, etc), then I can do that.

Koniption

EDIT: Hey! Look what I fond for Max!:

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/tree-maker

I have not installed it yet, and I don't know if it works with my 3D program version, but it's worth a shot. I'll install it soon and tell you guys what happens. Not now though.