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1. Re: Problems with lowPoly tree

   

   Reply by Justin Meisse · Dec 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Well there's a max script I've seen a guy at Mythic use but I can't seem to find it, I thought it was one of Blur's. It was called Normals Thief - he created a large geosphere around his tree and the script aligned all the leaf normals to the sphere's normals.

2. Re: Problems with lowPoly tree

   

   Reply by Boyordo · Dec 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks A LOT guys! I will try this out tonight. I will also do a try of replicating this script in maya if it works, to avoid exporting between 3Ds and maya. Anyone have a tip for doing this? WEll, will try on my own anyway, will be easier when i now can have the script in 3DS tod see how it´s done. Thansk again.

3. Re: Problems with lowPoly tree

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Dec 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks Justin, cool script! I'm interested in trying this one out. http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/normal-thief

4. Re: Problems with lowPoly tree

   

   Reply by Boyordo · Dec 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Ivars: Thanks for the tip, i tried that but i get the same - not good - result as with the script. Will post a image of the issue later today when i have time. I get it to work ok when i do a good edit of the vertex normals on the branch object before i start duplicating it for use in the tree. Although it is not what i…