Animating a tree?

[Chad Warner]

I'm trying to animate a tree blowing in the wind, and I can't find any tutorials/techniques on how to do it. I'm using xfrog trees, so any animating would have to be done inside of max (not using treestorm, etc).

 

If anyone knows how to do it, or can point me to a tutorial, that would be great.

 

Thanks,

 

Chad

[alrawli]

Could you use and animated FFD or Bend modifier? just to give it a slight movement and make the leaves rustle a bit?

[Chad Warner]

I tried the noise modifier, which worked to some extent, but it looked a little fake. I remember seeing a tutorial a few years back that had a way to do it inside of Viz, kind of a fake workaround, but I can't find that tutorial anymore either.