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adobe after effects

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try speedtree, it works pretty well and is realistic

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speed tree is comercial. and costs like 200$
im not rich
lol
unless i used a an illegal copy.
but i would never do that.
cough*

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My thoughts entirely. It would be nice if we were able to get some commercial plugins for free or at least at a discounted price...

~Setsanto

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well we get grants specifically for animation, try hitting up some companies to give you like a month subscription, plus there is always the trial period, where you just put all ur energy into modelling trees.

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On the entry form Autodesk asks what other software you used in addition to Max. I don't know if plug-ins are allowed or not, but I'll bet they'll give more points to a team that modeled their own trees vs. teams that used a plug-in.

Here are some more tree tutorials. Some are not specifically done in Max, but the same principals apply:

http://www.andyzibits.com/tut_low_poly_trees.html
http://reinerstileset.4players.de/ha...d_3d_treeE.htm
http://bk-coffeehouse.cottages.polyc...timetree1.html
http://www.vterrain.org/Plants/Create/index.html

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Pete you didnt even talk about my animation? We had a scene with a lot of trees, we used the Max trees. It was 5.8 million polys. Max trees eat render times and poly counts.

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Tom, your talking about Eco bot. Your sky dome was a sky "box" I rest my case with 3ds max tree not looking like any trees. You can produce better dreams than what comes with max.