incal Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 hi! is it possible to convert the opacity mapped leaves from xfrog plants to geometry? the only thing about that i could find: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14248&highlight=opacity+xfrog+geometry i would like to use xfrog-trees as vray-proxies, because they have a great library! thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 You can just convert it to a proxy mesh, and use the opacity material with it, I've read something that recommends using the map in the refract map slot instead of the opacity map slot, but use an ior of 0, so its just transparent with no refraction... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incal Posted January 20, 2007 Author Share Posted January 20, 2007 hi! i dont want to use opacity maps, because they take ages to render with vray. the script i mentioned in the post before replaces opacity mapped geometry with custom instanced geometry, but why should i do that, if there is a possibility to export xfrog trees with geometry leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 the script i mentioned in the post before replaces opacity mapped geometry with custom instanced geometry, but why should i do that, if there is a possibility to export xfrog trees with geometry leaves. You'd want to do that in case you don't have the xfrog program and only have the plant models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incal Posted January 20, 2007 Author Share Posted January 20, 2007 is it possible to convert the opacity mapped leaves from xfrog plants to geometry? is it possible IN XFROG to convert opacity mapped leaves to geometry? or is there just the possibility to replace the leaves with simple flat triangles? if yes, i have to rethink the plan to buy onyx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CORRENTES Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Hello. Yep i also wanna know if its possible change the opacity mapped leaves to geometry in xfrog 3.5. If its possible i dont know how to And im in real need, because i have to poppulate a cene with alot of vegetation and the opacity maps are time consuming in vray. cya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfa2 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 As kind of a side note, you may be able to speed things up by turning the bitmap filtering off for the opacity maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CORRENTES Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 thanks for the imput gfa2 already did that, and turn down the blur to 0.001 helps too. But the ideal is if the tree is all geometry. PS. Onyx default trees are horrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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