Foliage anyone?

[DennisHolland]

Hi all,

 

I'm looking for a good quality way for adding foliage onto objects. We are doing a hotel in moscow and the complete walls gonna be the same as the Paris Museum of Jean Nouvel. See att. for that. We need a way to do this in Max, preferably without any plugs or mapping. A mix between geometry and mapping is also good, if the quality is cool.

 

Any suggestions fellows?

 

Thanks, good luck.

 

Dennis

[innerdream]

There is a free ivy generator somewhere on the web, I can't remember where I found it. You could start by covering a good portion of the surface with that then apply other geometry and mapped planes as needed.

[PAWUK]

There is a free ivy generator somewhere on the web, I can't remember where I found it. You could start by covering a good portion of the surface with that then apply other geometry and mapped planes as needed.

 

 

http://www.guruware.at/main/index.html

[chiquito]

If you came to a nice solution, please share, good luck.

done with ivy generator

[DennisHolland]

Thanks fellows,

 

I know Ivy-Generator, and it's great. But, the model i'm working on is an eight story, very large hotel and with a diversity of growing greenery, just as Jean Nouvels' design in Paris. It would be cool if there was an extended version of Ivy where you can deal with multiple types, followinga very large surface.

 

Any news would be much appreciated.

 

Dennis

[Horhe]

Your best bet would be a displacement map IMO.

[Bwana Kahawa]

Seem to remember AHD imaging doing something similar - think this is it: http://thatch.cgsociety.org/gallery/338340/

 

Could just be a displacement map though?!

[Horhe]

Right on, (half a) chamfered box with displacement.

[DennisHolland]

W'e're all set guys.

 

I checked scriptspot for a nice random scatterscript and downloaded this

 

'Jar_Planter: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/gtools-jar-planter

 

we prepared 4 different proxies (bush, fern, bunch of leaves and vine) and just 'mouseclicked' them in random shapes, rotated, twisted and size on the hotel surface. If finished, i'll post an example. This script is a musthave for us all. Instantly create 100's of different cars, complete central parks, you name it.

 

Thanks for your help all..

 

Dennis

[STRAT]

with a wall like that i'd use a combination of what is available to me - ivy generator, with displacement elements, a few vb meshes and 3d models of trees and bushes. basically make a landscaped area as if you're doing a flower bed for example, then turn the area 90 degrees. gravity can be added later. but yes, just use normal 3d models.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Are you animating it? .....if not, you could replicate this with a camera, and a skilled comp person in less time.

[DennisHolland]

Thanks Stephen and travis.

 

Well, we're not animating for now, but the design is in early stage with only the green-wall as permanent item. We want to see the model in 100+ different viewpoints so comping is not realy cool at this stage...

 

Thanks, good luck.

dennis

[earlye]

Why not use texture maps mixed with geometry. For the large swaths of foliage, you could have a "bubble" with leaves and the like over another "bubble" with branches and stems and whatnot. With appropriate clipping and using a wavelet texture map importer like WavGen, you could easily map the entire thing without huge RAM requirements.