bit of a modeling pickle

sir-knight

hey guys, has anyone modeled a tree using nothing buy triangles and NO texture transparency?


Palm trees I can see, how about some convincing conifers and deciduous?


I'm being presented with an interesting challenge, our dev library team can't get a method of transparent textures to work on the range of given devices, but a lack of anything organic in the scenery is a little troubling.

Tumerboy

You can definitely do something very stylistic with nothing but tris & texture.

If you want a good looking, realistic tree, you can certainly do that too, but it takes far too many tris to do it right. You basically get out of the realm of real time at that point.

sir-knight

yeah, I doubt a convincing tree can be done with a reasonable number of triangles, but I'm willing to try it to show how much they need to get transparency working :P

Eric Chadwick

There was a discussion about this very thing not too long ago on one of the programmer email lists. The basic consensus was that the transform cost was just too high on current cards to support pure mesh trees.

MoP

Just model an outline and texture it with lots of leaves, so many leaves that there are no gaps

sir-knight

EricChadwick wrote: »

There was a discussion about this very thing not too long ago on one of the programmer email lists. The basic consensus was that the transform cost was just too high on current cards to support pure mesh trees.

we're talking cellphones here, which is probably even less possible on these things... sad thing is that it works on SOME but not others.

Eric Chadwick

Here's that thread.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=e8fc97ba0805281130l5865efa4g5226f041dfe6bd3a%40mail.gmail.com

Might give your coders some ideas too.

Oh, mobile, ok so then shells like MoP says.

sir-knight

lolipop trees

Ryno

Deciduous trees in winter.

sprunghunt

there are polygon trees in katamari damacy...