Modeling Leaves
Hey all,
I'm modeling a banyan tree, and well this applies to all trees, how do I do the leaves? It's for a game, so going for low poly count. This is my first real model, and I've always seen in games how the leaves seem to only exist on a single plane. My question is, how do I do the leaves? Is it a texture on a plane? What about the transparent parts?
Thanks all.
I'm modeling a banyan tree, and well this applies to all trees, how do I do the leaves? It's for a game, so going for low poly count. This is my first real model, and I've always seen in games how the leaves seem to only exist on a single plane. My question is, how do I do the leaves? Is it a texture on a plane? What about the transparent parts?
Thanks all.
Replies
http://bk-coffeehouse.cottages.polycount.com//tut/realtimetree1.html
http://store.got3d.com/products/3d-models-tree-1/index.html
you can download a really low poly tree for 3ds max and i suggest you open the .tga file in photoshop and see how the alpha channel is constructed.
or you can use a opacity layer and insert a grayscale image.
search for tutorials, i did a google search for low poly tree tutorial and came up with this:
http://www.andyzibits.com/tut_low_poly_trees.htmlthe sample looks like crap but you can get the idea
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=356544&highlight=tree+lowpoly
. . . you get the idea