Tree library recommendation (3d scanned?)

rmercier

Hello, I'm looking for high quality tree assets for a small scene where performance is not so much of an issue.

Something like this:
Quixel Megascan Jungle
Star wars Battlefront - Endor's moon
I do not want to make a huge open world forest like this one:
Unreal Engine 4 - Open Jungle DirectX 12 Demo

I've looked at xfrog, Plant Factory, Onyx and Speedtree. All of this stuff is primarily for archviz and Speedtree seems to be the only solution with a focus on realtime. (is it?)
Apart from Quixel's Megascans which may not be available before a few more months, is there any library out there with good normal/displacement maps for tessellation? i.e. not made in crazybump but baked from real geometry, either from zbrush or 3d scans.

rmercier

Bumping this post up.
Also, most of you probably have already seen the first build but in any case, this pretty great:
Star Wars: Battlefront with Toddyhancer (Build 2)

loggie24

Take a look at surfacemimic.com as they offer a some different scanned leaves. Even though it's only a small part of what you are asking it's a start. No branches unfortunately and the selection is pretty small but they are of great quality.

gnoop

I think there is just no technology currently that would allow to scan a tree with foliage and small twigs .      Only trank and big branches.   

rmercier

Thanks a lot loggie24, this is awesome! There are trunks textures too but it seems there was no update to the site since 2014. It's a shame.

I don't think it's as important for the branches as for most type of trees the player's camera is too far away anyway for it to have any impact on the tessellation. But for the trunk it really makes a huge difference in my opinion!

If anyone has any tips or ressources on how to properly blend parts of raw scans in zbrush or photoshop without smoothing the transition and losing details in the process I'm very interested
I tried tiling one of the trunk scans in photoshop and my outcome doesn't look nearly as good as the preview on the website and the repetition is pretty obvious (I'm only using a 2K crop of the preview for testing but still...):
http://www.surfacemimic.com/gallery/media.details.php?mediaID=278