anybody wanna share any foliage/trees?

Aga22

hey guys! i'm working on an architectural project which includes a lot of trees, of whatever kind, flowers ,etc. it's a hotel / mall thing.

so i'm trying to keep polygon count low. it's for my daily work,so i guess it's considered commercial...

i'm working on 3ds max. if anybody wants to share some files, post here or gimme a shout via PM. thanks dudes (and dudettes)

RobeOmega

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128021
This thread is good

MephistonX

this is a gold mind too - http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Foliage

Eric Chadwick

Is it rendered, or real-time?

Aga22

rendered, but i wanna keep the polycount low. i'm not looking for reference guys, i'm looking for actual models . i dont have the time to model them...

Eric Chadwick

At the bottom of the wiki page there are several software options that create tree models, many of them in 3ds Max.

There are also a few freebie models included in vanilla 3ds Max, go to the Creation panel, AEC Extended, Foliage.

http://download.autodesk.com/us/3dsmax/2012help/index.html?url=files/GUID-7FD701DB-3009-4E1E-9ABE-5A322B613D2-195.htm,topicNumber=d28e33590

Aga22

thanks i didnt see the models in the wiki page. i know AEC extended, they are rubbish...not rich enough.

battlecow

The only decent trees I have found for archviz are the evermotion or dosh tree packs, they range from 60 to 100 euros if I remember correctly.
Pretty good deal considering the time it saved me and how expensive the good foliage generating softwares are. I wouldnt worry about polycounts to much since you can use vray proxies.

RobeOmega

Good and fully free tree generator http://tree-d.software.informer.com/

Aga22

using proxies works, but rendertimes get affected. my clients won't notice the difference between a good low poly tree or a high poly one, but they'll notice if i deliver the video a week later

ExcessiveZero

Tree-d is legit, most powerful tree maker next to speedtree I think.

RobeOmega

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arlz1lgaO-0"]Creating Trees Using Tree[d] for Free - YouTube[/ame]

ExcessiveZero

haven't used tree-d in awhile though and went to download it and their site seems to be down, and I can't find a external mirror

Eric Chadwick

I have the installer at home, will dig it up and stick it on the wiki. I recall the author making a couple fixes for bugs I reported.

ExcessiveZero

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

I have the installer at home, will dig it up and stick it on the wiki. I recall the author making a couple fixes for bugs I reported.

Thanks a bunch dude.

Eric Chadwick

Hmm, I couldn't find it on my machine. It's been too long since I used it. However, it does exist in the Wayback machine!
https://web.archive.org/web/20130715071506/http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about

battlecow

I get your point
However,unless your tree is high poly, composing the final image will become a pain in the ass since some of your render passes will only take the LP geometry in account.
Photoshoping stuff behind foliage even with render ID and object ID passes(as they only see geometry and not alpha maps)will be very long and difficult.
I would use render farms for your renders, that's what I do when I have tight shedules and you can get them in minutes for a few bucks. ( try rebus render farm)

beefaroni

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

Hmm, I couldn't find it on my machine. It's been too long since I used it. However, it does exist in the Wayback machine!
https://web.archive.org/web/20130715071506/http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about

Thank you!!

Aga22

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

Hmm, I couldn't find it on my machine. It's been too long since I used it. However, it does exist in the Wayback machine!
https://web.archive.org/web/20130715071506/http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about

thanks for this!

battlecow

Here's a free tree it's pretty good
http://xoio-air.de/2012/tree-modell-shader-special/
Hope it helps a little