3d tree and Max Questions

[Tiny Piney]

Two questions

 

First: Can the 3D Max r5 network render cross platforms? I get an unknown error when I try to network render between Win 2000 and Win NT.

 

Second: I saw a site a while a go that had animated trees that looked great. Does anyone known this site an can they point me to it?

[schmoron13]

don't know about the later, but for the former, yes you can net-render across multiple verions of the SAME os...I work on xp and net-render across xp's and 2k's

[pen duick]

Hello,

 

For trees, may be should you check Bionatics 3D plant software on www.natfx.com. Animation and modeling are easy.

 

Cheers

[mbr]

http://www.onyxtree.com/

 

They have some really slick trees blowing in the wind.

I imagine it'd be pretty intensive to do for a computer, but pretty nice.

 

http://www.marlinstudio.com has some animated trees as animations with alpha channels. They look great, but you can only view them from two sides (which may be enough for many exterior animations).

[tdapper]

You might also want to check out

http://www.greenworks.de

[3d-doctor]

hello

i used onyx a few years ago and it worked although i was rendering one tree at a time and compositing them........yes it was taxing on resources (p3 450 days)

bionatics does work and you can download a 15 or 30 day full demo but i get the impression from talking to the reps that it may take a little work to a) get a tree and b) get it blowing in the wind

onyx to it's credit was literally a couple of mouse clicks and a little experimentation on wind speed et voila.