FlytE Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Ive seen alot of great renders with 3D vegetation in it recently, trees, plants, flowers etc - all great stuff. Im really interested in using 3D plants etc so I was wondering if anyone can give me a heads up or more specifically, some sort of comparison between Onyx and XFrog, which both seem to be the best creators Ive seen so far. Of course by all means if there is better and ive missed it I would love to know about that as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Eloy Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Check our new 3D Plants section. Lots of info there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlytE Posted June 21, 2006 Author Share Posted June 21, 2006 apologies, its easy to miss forums out from the vast choice here. Heading over there now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jow Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Hi, Ive been using Xfrog for about 3-4 years now, i started with some of the ready made librarys which are exellent. They are very high quality, but also high on the polys. They also use Alpha maps for the leaves, which is good for detail but not so good for rendering if you use something like Vray. (Note, there are ways to speed this up) I then moved on to Xfrog 3.5 which is there modelling software, this is great but can be complicated ( lots of Parameters). You can also in 3.5, change the tree/plant leaves from a Alpha map leaf to Geometry leaf which speeds rendering up no end. I cant coment on Onyx as i havn't used it. But what ive seen, it looks like it does a good job, though i personally think Xfrog has the edge where quality/ detail is concerned. Hope that helps,abit..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlytE Posted June 23, 2006 Author Share Posted June 23, 2006 it definitely does. Truthfully I was sort of leaning towards xfrog but it always helps to know whats out there. So whats the learning curve like roughly? I know vray welll enough so if I was to get xfrog tomorrow, roughly how long would you say it wouild take to be up to speed with it and producing decent enough trees? ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jow Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 The learning curve is not to bad, you tuts with it. difficult to say how long it would take you to produce a decent tree. Have look here, you can download a 30 day trial- http://www.xfrogdownloads.com/greenwebNew/products/productStart.htm I think there are also some sample trees and bits on the site aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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