Trees

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by adamrw91

hey when you render out a z-depth pass what program do u use with the blur?

adobe after effects

[pyr0b0y]

try speedtree, it works pretty well and is realistic

[adamrw91]

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*

[Setsanto]

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

[pyr0b0y]

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.

[Kevin Thorp]

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

[addictedMax]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

SNIP TREES

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.

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by addictedMax

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.

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.