Vegetation tutorials?

armagon

I've been learning a lot about environment design lately and i'm pretty confident to finish my own level. After getting good with terrain and rocks, i'm in the part of filling the level with vegetation: grass, trees and bushes. But i have no idea where to start.

Do you guys sculpt trees in ZBrush and retopologize, like a normal asset? Or is there a more specific workflow? Do you guys know any tutorials i can follow to improve my knowledge in this area? Thanks in advance!

Clark Coots

some great examples here for geometry, and textures:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149632

and a bunch of links to check out on the polycount wiki: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Foliage

Steppenwolf

Ther's a bunch of tutorials in the wiki:

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Foliage

You can use zbrush for stylized trees. For realistic trees you can stay inside max/maya for the most part or better yet use speedtree modeller (versatile and much much quicker). In that workflow you make textures first before you create the model.

Mant1k0re

That's for UDK using Max, but I think the workflow described in there is still very good. Real game artists will correct me if I'm wrong

armagon

Thanks a lot guys, i'll spend the rest of the sunday crunching on those.

Finalhart

This one is really good:

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