Some recent work w/ some Onyx plants

[Peter M. Gruhn]

http://www.hwb.com/gruhn/3d/lh/--000---.html (it's big) The medium tall yellow top flowers in the mid distance on the left are ugly handmade things in max, Onyx would not save a model max would read.

 

http://www.hwb.com/gruhn/3d/lh/22-5-lantana_m_test.html First test render of a bunch of whatever species that's trying to be. Had issues with flower color brilliance. Still not happy with that problem. There's something I'm missing material/lighting-wise. Will look into it someday.

 

http://www.hwb.com/gruhn/3d/patio/patio-final.jpg Much quicker project right after previous one. I'm starting to get a little better. My plants take less time to make and look a little more like their prototypes.

 

There's a barrel cactus species in there that was modelled by hand in Max.

 

http://www.hwb.com/gruhn/3d/patio/19.jpg

http://www.hwb.com/gruhn/3d/patio/17.jpg

same project

 

Thought I had a picture of the cactus online. Let me move one over...

[Peter M. Gruhn]

http://www.hwb.com/gruhn/3d/plants/

 

There, my catalog pics. Some species are probably missing.

 

I know my renders are no great shakes, so look at these, I guess as what one struggling joe can get out of Onyx after putting some sweat and learning curve in.

 

The trees I pretty much left the geometry as I got it out of Onyx (B3 and smaller 2d, no leaf stems, often 2x2 curved leaves) but even on low res settings the flowers would tend to come out high so I usually hit them with a ProOptimize around 50% and they look ok at viewing distances. Less than that and polys would start to disappear and things get sparse.

 

Oh yeah, everything appears twice in the catalog shots because I just import from them to my scene. One is the geometry, the other a proxy.

[Janwalli]

looking nice!