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Re: Tree texturing
Aha no wonder I couldn't do it, I was trying to make it one piece of geometry, welded verts and all. I was thinking all along 'I'm sure this isn't even possible'. Now it is clear, and it was so obvious I completely missed it! Thanks Eric. Just to be sure, I'm guessing the quad is UV'd before copying and the new tri is… -
Re: Tree texturing
That's because photos are often the quickest and best way. Just find a good photo and paint an alpha for it. http://cgtextures.com/ You're using 3ds Max right? Particles work great for this, just distribute them on selected vertices of the ends of your branches. For example:… -
Re: Tree texturing
thx to the revival on the first page, thought I might share this here Recently I have been working on a masking technique in ShoeBox that uses a difference blend based mask and bleeds out the colors on the edges (step by step explanation here). Which is useful for masking images with complex shapes (trees, leaves,… -
Re: Tree texturing
Cheers Divi. Yeah you're right, the leaf pattern does ten to 'droop' rather than protrude upwards I think. It's just what the leafs and twigs actually look like close up so I can make a decent diffuse. After further research I've got a bit closer to finding out. I discovered 'Confier' is an umbrella term and looking at the… -
Re: Tree texturing
Biggest no-no right there. Option 1: bend the vertex normals, like this. Option 2: 100% self-illumination/emissive, black diffuse (or none), with vertex color to darken the inner vertices. Option 3: Light map instead of vertex color. Yeah, welcome to the pain of alpha sorting. Some options here. Most games just use alpha… -
Re: Tree texturing
Ok, I'm gonna get back on this over the weekend, and I'm already struggling. Two things; Firstly, in the Jeremy Cooke tutorial that Ben Apuna reposted about halfway down this page, how in the world did he create that triple triangle thing geometry for the initial branch? He says it's 'basically a rotated quad (I get that…
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