Just brute modeling or looking for scripts to help? Brute modeling: Polyboost/graphite modeling tools > Branch tool Or, Sketchxtrude http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/sketchxtrude-0-95-beta Scripts and separate apps: Or, TreeMaker script http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/tree-maker Or, Branchy…
For the trees I'll be making, I need to have them animated in a realistic fashion. I agree that 3rd party plugins or scripts would help. But I've tried tree'd, branchy, and various other programs and nothing truly gets the results I want. I had the chance to test out Speedtree with UDK, but since this is going into Max and…