cherry blossom game trees

Nathan3D

hey so im making these for a game and i realise ive never done it before here is my attempt

i figure planes for the flower parts and a mesh for trunk part. any ideas where im going wrong?

I even used normal theif to take the normals of a half sphere and put them on the leaves.

any help will be much appreciated

Meloncov

Your proportions are way off; the branches and trunk are much to thick relative to the size of the leaves.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

Is this a photo?
http://3dmotive.com/series/creating-foliage-for-udk.html

mazerius1st

Your sakura trees look unrealistic. Did you find first real references. Here is a photo of the trees. See how much difference is between yours and real life. Your methodology is correct, just your proportions are way off. You tree at the moment looks like an African Baobab.

Nathan3D

thanks i can see the proportions are off now. i did have some references
i was going for more of the hanging down variety like these

mazerius1st

Adelphia wrote: »

thanks i can see the proportions are off now. i did have some references
i was going for more of the hanging down variety like these

Those are not cherry trees, from the foliage they look more like a variety of peach trees.

Nathan3D

Ahh okay. I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable but that picture comes from there and said it was a cherry tree in new jersey. When looking for references is there any specific key words to search or just Sakura? I like the sort of wide spread, low hanging blossom trees. I think they look a lot wilder and less pruned.