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Re: Animating a growing tree
Here might be another way to animate it. Using teo curves and extrude, but using only partial length and animating the max value of the subCurve. In this example I've also animated the rotation on the extrude and the scale of the profile curve. It's a bit twitchy because of the adaptive tesselation.… -
Animating a growing tree
I know animation isn't what most of you do, but I'm going to ask anyway. I have a project where I'm supposed to make a tree grow out of another object. So basicly a stem needs to come up, and from it roots, twigs, leaves etc. Is there a good workflow for this? Any hints and tips? I work primarily in maya btw. -
Re: Animating a growing tree
Thanks for all the replies! Polycount is helpfull as always :) Since I don't have much time for this project (3 days all in all), and don't feel comfortable working in max, i decided to apply the principle of the max script in Vigs link and actually do it manually in maya. That is; make a ton of clusters around a mesh and… -
Re: Animating a growing tree
This script might be interesting: http://www.pxfactory.eu/scripts/grow/grow.html This tutorial might help get things rolling: http://www.escalight.com/tutorials/3dsmax-tutorials/growing-tree.html The digimation suite has a lightning plug-in that could work for roots: http://www.digimation.com/home/Downloads.aspx?sm=ds… -
Re: Animating a growing tree
Is this for a rendering or game? Closeup or far away? Paint effects can be animated as they grow. -
Re: Animating a growing tree
I think Xfrog can do that automaticaly for you. edit: okay not all automatic but the program is meant for this sort of thing: http://www.xfrogdownloads.com/greenwebNew/support/FlowerBlossom.PDF
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