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Re: Tree texturing
Here ares some variations I was taught that might help.... 1) Find reference, bring it into Max/Maya, lay image on a plane. 2) Spline out limbs and the trunk based on reference. Then loft the trunk and limbs. Duplicate the splines and edit the depth (Z axis) because they'll be initially flat. Cool thing about lofts is that… -
Tree texturing
I've got a question regarding the creation of decent looking trees for real time. Firstly, I've been through the tuts in the Wiki and some of them have been a huge help, I can get the geometry creation and the placing of alpha cards just fine... but I cannot make a decent texture... at all. The tutorials are all very… -
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
Many thanks Eric, awesome response. Just a couple things, I was unclear about what I meant by using PaintFX. It seems a lot of the tuts use it for laying down the branch diffuse in 2D because it's a parametric way of getting some varied branches. This is a huge step which I'm having the trouble with since branches are… -
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…
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