My Trees

[AirWolf]

I wanted show some of my trees that I created with the help from Dennis' wonderful brushes found at www.gardenhose.com. These trees are for use with a gaming mod I'm working with called Incursion. Dennis' high-res brushes allowed me to create some great 1024x1024 leaf/branch 2D planes for my trees. Take a look:

 

Inc Trees 1

Inc Trees 2

Inc Trees 3

Inc Trees 4

 

The trunks and 3D branches were created with Treemagik G3 while the 2D planes were placed and created by me with the help of Dennis' brushes in PaintShop Pro.

Enjoy!

[DennisB]

Nice work James. I love the sawed off trunks. Wonderful.

 

If you ever move into L-system stuff, let me know. There are some solutions there, yet undiscovered, that could lead to better realism and far lower poly counts. Then again, I may be wrong.

 

Regardless, thanks for the mention.

 

Dennis @ DigArts

Trees & paints to create them

http://www.gardenhose.com

[AirWolf]

If you ever move into L-system stuff, let me know. There are some solutions there, yet undiscovered, that could lead to better realism and far lower poly counts. Then again, I may be wrong.

 

Dennis, could you please elaborate on the L-system stuff. I've never heard of that so I had to google it to find out what it is. The problem I run into is that most of the tree generators I've tried generate a model that is just way too high poly to use in a multiplayer game. So the only way I've found to keep a tree low poly is to use 2D planes that are painted with the leaves and branch. That's where your brushes come in. But if you have any suggestions on a way to generate lower poly counts and better realism, I would definitely love to hear your advice.

[kippu]

nice trees ... good job

[DennisB]

Dennis, could you please elaborate on the L-system stuff.

Not really. I'm the last person here who should try to elaborate on L-systems in plant morphology. In fact, it may be the wrong reference.

 

I read up on Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz's work six or seven years ago, but I've forgotten most of it. See http://algorithmicbotany.org/

 

I'm thinking more in terms of XFrog, Speedtree and those implementations. While they too offer plant morphology, I don't know that they're pure L-system implementations. The trunks and branches probably, but not the leaves and foliage.

 

[...passes baton off to anyone who'll take it.]