tree[d]

[Birnsen]

hello erveryone

 

i have found a nice programm with that you can make good looking trees.

 

here is a pic from palms i have made with this programm(i have made it really fast so they dont look so good)

 

you can get it here tree[d]

[Marleys Ghost]

Yes I have had this app a while now and it is a good source for trees, they do need some work to get right for use in LE but UU3D takes care of most of the things needed.

[Guest Red Ocktober]

yes... from the wizards who brought us Gile...

 

question... those trees... do the branches move in LW just like they do in the Tree[d] editor...

 

 

--Mike

[Marleys Ghost]

yes... from the wizards who brought us Gile...

 

question... those trees... do the branches move in LW just like they do in the Tree[d] editor...

 

 

--Mike

 

 

 

As far as I know .. no. Just set the sway shader on the leaf material.

[Birnsen]

yes... from the wizards who brought us Gile...

 

question... those trees... do the branches move in LW just like they do in the Tree[d] editor...

 

 

--Mike

 

the animation will be exported too. but i didnt try it in the le editor yet.

[Marleys Ghost]

Actually I think it does export the anim to .x but it was B3D format that it did not.. been a while since I used it

[Birnsen]

Actually I think it does export the anim to .x but it was B3D format that it did not.. been a while since I used it

 

yap you are right

[Michael Betke]

I really like treed but had some troubles.

 

1. Didn't know about .x and .b3d format....google had some problems finding help too.

2. Found a .b3d maxscript but it's importing toally messed up into max2010.

 

So I would like to give it a try again but have not a good point where to start and solve my issues.

[Marleys Ghost]

I really like treed but had some troubles.

 

1. Didn't know about .x and .b3d format....google had some problems finding help too.

2. Found a .b3d maxscript but it's importing toally messed up into max2010.

 

So I would like to give it a try again but have not a good point where to start and solve my issues.

 

 

 

I simply did all the required work on them in UU3D, I don't have max, but I thought it could import .x?

[Richard Simpson]

Yeah this app is great. But I doubt I will use it now. We have some very good tree models in the download section thanks to Micheal Betke.

[Josh]

How many triangles are those trees?

[Marleys Ghost]

How many triangles are those trees?

 

 

Well the default palm tree says 1287 tris:

 

[Josh]

The triangle counts in that program seem astronomical.

[Marleys Ghost]

The triangle counts in that program seem astronomical.

 

Yes I agree, although the palm default was actually lower than the 1900'ish tris for the palm in previous versions of the SDK. You can drop the tris down for the other "styles" but they still seemed high.

[Michael Betke]

Yes they are quite heavy on triscount. But if you have a nice eye-candy spot in your level (like a clearing in a forest or such) it's likely you need some good looking unique trees. I think this app can support an artist. Some manual poly-reduction could done in a 3d app too.

[omid3098]

agreed with Pure³D..

use its lowest poly count (just remove leafs and add cross horiz. and vert. geomerty) and also there is many ways to decrease triangle counts. it would be very useful for those people who they can not create good trees (like me )

[Jordan]

http://leadwerks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31122#p31122

[flachdrache]

I used the older version for some time and the results are needed some good amount of "cleaning up" afterwards.

I like to build my trees from scratch tbh. because of the more control in vertex count. Still using tree[d] for

extracting the textured plain X since these are a pain to do by hand.

 

There are quit some tricky parts for normalmapped trees, so my workflow goes as :

 

build the tree trunk in silo/zbrush and UV texture those.

build the "leafcloud" OR "leafcross" with tree[d].

mix, scale, convert etc.

 

with leafcloud i mean this :

 

a leafcross looks like this :

 

The leafcloud gets Uv textured onto a spiderweb or umbrella like mesh.

With using leafclouds i can extend the model assets because they are not part of the trunk model

(added independent within sandbox) and of thus i got the naked winter tree with a "summer" leafsets.

 

for the trunk i extract the plain ubersmooth normalmap from subdivided mesh and "convert" the "barktexture"

into a bumpmap -> mixing those with ORB (OpenRenderBump) since it holds the least amount of hassle.

 

I also once deformed the highpoly trunk ( in zbrush ) with the bumpmap but it wasnt worth the more work imo.

 

hth, JT

[cocopino]

You can create low poly trees in tree[d] by setting the leaf count to 0 and the branches to cross geometry.

 

But it will always produce trees looking like some sticks glued together IMO. The trunk bothers me especially, it's impossible to create a trunk even remotely round.