lowpoly trees in Max

DogCity

Well, i'm trying to develop some low poly trees. Roughly 100 - 200 faces. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to make flat two sided faces. like so...<br>



That shot from a trial version of NatFX.

Can anyone tell me how to make these bits of geometry? psudo-billboards I guess.. panels? I'm confused.

Soccerman18

Could just make a simple plane, or create new polys in any of the view ports, then rotate and move them to where you want them. Then just render 2 sided, or set the material to be 2 sided.

DogCity

bonza, I was thinking there would be a special shape just for this. Anyway, that works nicely. Is there any way to get both sides to display in maxes perspective view?

motives

either apply a material with the "2-sided" option ticked or go into the proprties of the plane and untick backface cull

Cubik

Or copy the branches, hit Flip, and weld them together again.

motives

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Or copy the branches, hit Flip, and weld them together again.

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yea but thats uncool

DogCity

Many thanks for all your suggesgions!

Delaney King

Say when your done there is a nifty lighting trick. Take the normals of your planes and point them all outwards, just like a spheres normals. Most engine lighting systems gives this a nice effect!