Tree N Stuff

Huntard · Nov 2010

Hi Guys,

Made a tree using Zbrush. This the first making a tree. I would love to hear how to make it better. I was going for a weirwood tree. White Bark with red leaves.

Thanks!

Zipfinator · Nov 2010

Looking great! Only crit, or rather a tip, that comes to mind at the moment is on your leaf texture, you should use a reddish background that matches the leaves instead of a black background. This way when the texture mips it will grab red instead of black.

Huntard · Nov 2010

Thanks! will do.

ErichWK · Nov 2010

ahh! Love the colors. Excellent paint job!

ParoXum · Nov 2010

Very nice tree, but like Zip said for your foliage texture background, the bark texture background is showing on the tree branch border, and it's quite big. A proper background will mip better.

topher · Nov 2010

Colors look great. Very nice.

blitz · Nov 2010

very nice color. Looks like the start zone from the blood elf from wow. Like it a lot.

Zakk · Nov 2010

blitz wrote: »

very nice color. Looks like the start zone from the blood elf from wow. Like it a lot.

Exactly what i was thinking.

Absolutely beautiful work

StefanH · Nov 2010

i like it very much. Especially the colors. I think a problem with your texturing is your "fear" of darker tones. Especially on the leaves it makes the planes very visible. What you wanna go instead is paint some shadows in the leaves textures and make it so that the viewer thinks certain leaves are in front of other leaves. This can either be suggested by overlapping or by making the more distant leaves darker.

SaferDan · Nov 2010

That's an epic tree you have there! Well done

Taylor Hood · Nov 2010

Loving the textures.

sltrOlsson · Nov 2010

Looking really nice! Got inspired to do something similar!

Is it just me, or do you have a nasty seam on visible on the right one? Would be easy to remove if so.

Acumen · Nov 2010

What totally amazes me is how you spread this one lonely branch textured alpha plane around the tree and made some nice volume.
When I remember my last horrible try at a tree I used 3 branch variations and it still looked totally repetetive and weird in perspective.

I hope you did not only trick us in a nice pose but it holds up to the quality in every direction

All in all, great work, I'd say !

Huntard · Nov 2010

Wow, Thank you guys for all the critiques and complements! I have addressed the texture mip issue and reduced the branch texture to 256x256, in addition I addressed the seam on the branch and added other angles to better display the volume of the branches.

Thank you all for your help!

Acumen · Nov 2010

cool beans

always to see someone who actually listens to feedback by these guys and actually changes something

One thing I'm wondering. When you have these two 1024 maps, couldn't you kept the 512 size of the branches but put the grass, moss and leaf plane onto that map as well ?
But I'm not expert, there should be others who can judge that.

ParoXum · Nov 2010

Yeah, nice to see it fixed! Great stuff.

CrackRockSteady · Nov 2010

This is awesome man, i really dig the style. Do you think you could post a bit higher res image of the wireframe shot? I'm interested in seeing how you put the roots together but i'm having a bit of trouble seeing it well.

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