Painted Low Poly Pine Trees

Pixelatedkiwi

I've made up some pine tree assets for personal project I'm currently working on that I thought I'd share. I built them kind of modular with the branches and fronds able to be plugged into the trunks so I can quickly make as many variants as I need.

Here are two large and two medium, they range from 1300 tris through to about 2000 for the large. They all share the same 512x1024 map.

Thanks for taking a look

loki1991

wow they look great! any chance you could post the bark texture map? you can water mark it and stuff i just want to see how you painted your bark. im trying to learn how to do hand painted stuff myself and so im looking all over the place for tutorials and how other people have done it so i can find what works for me.

Pixelatedkiwi

Sure, no probs! Ive attached the bark UV shell for you to see. I don't really use watermarks, if people want to steal your stuff they're only hurting themselves in the long run, and its hard to see stuff properly with water mark goobers all over it!

loki1991

god dam that looks awesome! nice tinges of green in the darker areas. any advice you can give?


edit; also is that a light pink on the overlay for extra light?

Fenyce

Really pretty! That bark is awesome!
But I don't think you'll need much variations of trees, since it's even hard to tell that those up there are 4 different trees. So vice versa it would be hard to tell that it would only 1-2 trees if you rotate them a little.
So 3-4 should already be enough, I guess.

Snafubar7

Fenyce wrote: »

Really pretty! That bark is awesome!
But I don't think you'll need much variations of trees, since it's even hard to tell that those up there are 4 different trees. So vice versa it would be hard to tell that it would only 1-2 trees if you rotate them a little.
So 3-4 should already be enough, I guess.

I agree. One tree and you can twist/scale/tilt for variation. You have some good painting skills

chrisradsby

That looks really nice I don't really have any good crits for this, so I'll just wait for more awesome art

JamieRIOT

Really nice. I'm going to start hand painting a scene this week, so this will help me out. Keep it up, looking forward to seeing more tasty art.

Pixelatedkiwi

@loki1991 - Thanks for the kinds words! I would recommend using lots of reference, both real life and game art. Also make sure you don't forget some color and value varition, bark tends to get pretty monochromatic fairly quickly if you don't.

@Fenyce & Snafubar7 - Yeah agreed, I think this 4 will be fine for variation, instead I'll probaly make some other species to sprinkle in between, maybe some silver birch or something.

@chrisradsby - Thanks man! I'm totally flattered your work is really inspirational stuff

@JamieRIOT - Glad it'll be helpful, looking forward to seeing your scene thread!

AzzaMat

Wouldn't it be more efficient to create a tiling texture (vertical as well as horizontal) with a unique base?

AzzaMat

Also the texture looks stunning

cupsster

if you blend in vertex colors it is ok to go with tilling.. at least for bark.

SHEPEIRO

nice art only crit i have technically is that you could have used vert colour as a multiply tint the occluded areas and saved a crap ton of texture space...

zombieminteractive

Very Nice,

Can we see a wire frame? I'm currently in a battle of making trees and would be very helpful

Pixelatedkiwi

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback! Tiling texture with vert colours is def. another way I could go about it. I've got the bark and fronds sharing the same map for these ones so I kept it all unique painted.

@ zombieminteractive - for sure man I'll post up a wireframe tonight for you.

Pixelatedkiwi

As promised here is the wire frame for a couple of the trees, hope its helpful!

Torch

These are pretty cool, you should get involved with the VG remix

zombieminteractive

Very nice, It seems the main trunk and branches are one? With planes as the leaf items.
Thanks for posting the wireframe.

Pixelatedkiwi

When I put it all together the trunk is separate geo as are the branches and frond planes, so you can plug in the branches where ever you want, then combine it all up at the end, hope that helps!

zombieminteractive

Thank you!

I am trying to figure out how to make a old tree that a branch cuts threw a old cabin like structure and I kept thinking "how am I going to unwrap this so it looks nice"
You fixed that! :P
thanks!