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    • soloS Offline
      solo
      last edited by

      Thanks guys.

      Dirk, I have not released it yet as I am still completing it.

      I saw in one of your gallery threads you were using very high poly vegetation for you photoreal rendering, what I am hoping here is a collection of photoreal vegetation thats lower poly and that renders perfectly with every engine including Vray that does not use .png's too well. All my textures will be .jpg's (optimised) so no alpha mapping needed, and they will all be 3D so no shadow issues and alignment issues. I also wanted a product that straight SU users could use that looked great and even use them in animations (face me's just don't cut it)
      I am hoping to wrap it up soon and have it available by month end, I am just trying to figure out how to distribute it and what a fair price would be, I want it to be a fair price for both the user and for the amount of work I've put into it with modeling and texture creation.

      http://www.solos-art.com

      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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        lightburn
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        wow! just wow. 👍

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
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          @solo said:

          including Vray that does not use .png's too well.

          Are you referring to that V-Ray requires you to load an alpha channel bitmap for transparency?

          I'm really interested in this collection of yours Solo. I sorely need some vegetation which doesn't kill SU.

          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • soloS Offline
            solo
            last edited by

            Thomthom, yeah, thats what I mean. I never got around to trying clipmaps during my Vray trial but heard a lot of chatter on these forums about the seperate alpha channel issue, so these will not require any fancy mapping as they are ready to render. Whats even better is the texturing is good enough to not even render as straight SU output will be photoreal as the textures are from photos.

            http://www.solos-art.com

            If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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              Gaieus
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              I see that you are adding a lot of tropical/subtropical flora to this collection. Any chance for more "temperate" vegetation?

              Gai...

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                stereofidelic
                last edited by

                those are just great.

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                • soloS Offline
                  solo
                  last edited by

                  Csaba, I asked for folks to make requests, do you have anything in mind for this collection? I am making this a garden collection so if you need any shrubs, plants or flowers from your zone let me know.
                  I will see how things go with this collection and if things work well I will do other stuff like Trees by zone or whatever the market wants.

                  I was asked for interior plants too as 2D png images do not render great indoors, so that's another collection, I will however not include the Vases as Vases are based on the interior design and choice so my plants will be able to be used with any vase the users chooses.

                  http://www.solos-art.com

                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    @gaieus said:

                    I see that you are adding a lot of tropical/subtropical flora to this collection. Any chance for more "temperate" vegetation?

                    That's an interesting question. What kind of vegetation are you making? Any particular climate? Will you be doing packages for different climates?
                    I do visualisation work for an architectural office where we operate only in Norway, so my interest for vegetation would be limited to vegetation which occurs in Northern Europe.

                    By the way, can you give some example face/edge count for some of the examples you've posted?

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                    • soloS Offline
                      solo
                      last edited by

                      Sure...

                      Here is a complex model, the Sweet potato vine, model is 141kb (this is straight SU image with edges on)


                      http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9656/edgecountyb4.jpg

                      http://www.solos-art.com

                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        Why so many groups? Are they deeply nested?

                        Reason I ask, is that V-Ray will take longer to parse scenes which has many deeply nested groups/components. Also, is all material applied to the geometry or the groups.
                        V-Ray will also slow down, quite notably very quickly, from materials applied to groups or components. Just a FYI.

                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • soloS Offline
                          solo
                          last edited by

                          Every stem and every leaf is a seperate group, only one level down (Component --> 86 groups)
                          Renders fast in Podium, Vue and Indigo (yes Indigo)

                          I was under the impression that the new Vray handles grouped meshes better, or is it still doing that wierd disapearing group thing?

                          All textures have been applied to both faces, not groups/components.

                          http://www.solos-art.com

                          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            Ok, with only one level of grouping it should be fine.

                            The original version had some problems where groups would not render at all. Components where fine.
                            In SR1.0 it seemed this was fixed, but in SR1.5 things seemed to disappear again. But this time only when you edited a group. Apparently SU doesn't report back that the group changed. But when the file is reloaded it works fine. So it should not be a problem when you just place the vegetation components out there. Only if one where to edit them. But a V-Ray user would most likely be aware of this problem anyway, so I wouldn't worry about that.

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              sepo
                              last edited by

                              Yes it would be nice to have trees and shrubs from Northern hemisphere. Well that is where my interest would be.

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                              • soloS Offline
                                solo
                                last edited by

                                Technically they are, Most of these are used in Texas (mind you that's like another planet, strange weather, strange landscape and even stranger people/presidents)

                                http://www.solos-art.com

                                If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                  solo
                                  last edited by

                                  Here is a flower that is from a temperate climate, anyone from such an environment confirm this?

                                  Nasturtium


                                  http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4372/nastreumrenderei3.jpg


                                  http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1844/nastreumrender1mi2.jpg

                                  http://www.solos-art.com

                                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                    boofredlay
                                    last edited by

                                    I have already started a savings account. I am placing a couple dollars on my computer every day waiting for the release, I hope that will cover it 😉

                                    http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                                      mateo soletic
                                      last edited by

                                      Great plants 👍 I am hoping for a Mediterranean collection pack.

                                      [Concept Illustrations](http://concept-illustrations.com/)

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                                        Luis Esteves
                                        last edited by

                                        Incredible !! I love these plants !!

                                        Great work Solo 😲

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                                        • P Offline
                                          pmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          Here is a flower that is from a temperate climate, anyone from such an environment confirm this?

                                          Love Nastursiums. We plant them every spring in SE Pennsylvania and they continue to a hard frost. I believe they grow year round in areas without frost (i.e. California has tons along the ocean up as far as San Francisco). And they taste good.

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                                            urgen
                                            last edited by

                                            ...good low-poly collection Pete! 👍

                                            --pupil forever...------

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