nisus Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Hi everybody, We've been searching to buy high-res tree-models lately and have come across several good ones. We are particulary very interested in the ones that Xfrog delivers. Has anyone bought these already? What do you think of their collection? and most importantly: what are the pro's en cons of Xfrog? tnx & rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguelafi Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 hola, nisus congratulations on winning the challenge. i dont know about those trees, i cant find anywhere in the site a poly count i may be dangerous to buy a library of trees without knowing the size of those trees in your archive, are you familiar with the forest plug in... if u are thinking of working trees in background or near your camera placement forest plug in is the best option. anyway lets wait to hear the opinion of some one who has try them.. rgds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toomuch Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 hi dudes, i tried the demo, they give you some models with them. unfortunately you cannot export to the different file formats from their polygon-lowering-tool; xfrogtune, so i got quite big trees as model in the end. they are nice though, and xfrog itself works very easily, i think the possibilities are very nice. they also have cd-roms with plants/trees in them, but i figure you would still need xfrogtune to get your polygon count to a more handy number... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 Hi miguelalfi, Do you mean forest lite? I knew the plugin but didn't get it to work yet, since we have our own tools and low-poly-models. We are just looking for good detailed and real-looking high-res trees for this moment. But I think Xfrog has a tool to lower polygoncount too http://www.xfrogdownloads.com/greenwebNew/products/productStart.htm Mmm... there is a demo too! rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 7, 2003 Author Share Posted June 7, 2003 Does no one uses Xfrog? rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seismograph Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 well... we use some tweaked xfrog trees... The deal about xfrog is , that there is a free maxplugin, which loads the trees and a comercial authoring tool for designing trees. The authoring tool is ..well, call it.. overkill for someone who only want few typical trees. If you only want some basic trees, then have a google search for free xfrog trees and import it to max/viz... collapse them to an editable mesh and optimize it or exchange maps ..and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 8, 2003 Author Share Posted June 8, 2003 Tnx seismo. To all, I'm very surprised not to hear any positive comments on Xfrog, whereas I thought they rock. Anyone else tried their optimizer? rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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