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    • TIGT Online
      TIG Moderator
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      @podlesnick said:

      How to drop hundreds of trees on a surface without copying them manually?

      Try Didier Bur's ComponentSpray tool 😄
      Or even my Matrix/Proximity + others Drop or SmartDrop ... or 'fur' ???

      TIG

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      • fuzzionF Offline
        fuzzion
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        We have a fur/grass/leave making plugin. Whats stopping us from makaing a 3d tree maker plugin?

        A forest making tool set designed for SU would be radical 👍

        "Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato

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        • K Offline
          KarinaGM
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          With the fur plugin you can populate the surface by component and then replace the component for the one you need.

          **"Aquel que sacrifica un poco de libertad por seguridad, no se merece ninguna y terminará perdiendo ambas"

          -Benjamín Franklin.**

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            @karinagm said:

            With the fur plugin you can populate the surface by component and then replace the component for the one you need.

            Doesn't the later versions allow to select which component to place?

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

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
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              The fur plugin can populate a certain area with any component you wish. Let it be grass (set it to denser) or trees (set less dense of course).

              Gai...

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              • fuzzionF Offline
                fuzzion
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                Thanks and Yeah I already know that. I once made a mountain covered by thousands of nipples (For artistic purposes)

                But it would be cool if it created random heights of the tree, applied various different bark textures, make
                different styles of trees, all at one go.(for productivity purposes) so that i can focus on design.

                Something specifically designed for SU

                Edit : WHat I currently do is to get 360 forest HDRI and render them in Vray for productivity reasons
                due to lack of time.

                "Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  @fuzzion said:

                  But it would be cool if it created random heights of the tree,

                  Use Chris' random Rotate and Scale for that.

                  @fuzzion said:

                  applied various different bark textures, make
                  different styles of trees

                  Make a tree is a bit more complicated. But if you find yourself a small set of tree variation you can just feed that to grass plugin.

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

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
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                    @fuzzion said:

                    I once made a mountain covered by thousands of nipples (For artistic purposes)

                    🤣

                    @fuzzion said:

                    But it would be cool if it created random heights of the tree...

                    Both component spray and fur can randomly rotate, scale etc. If you take component spray for instance, you can select up to 8 species as components and with this added variation, there can already be some nice forest.

                    Note the poly count though.


                    As far as I know, iRender has a fractal tree generator built in. Al Hart even made a free product of it that renders trees and then you can save them as 2D face me components (for far distance trees this is better than full 3D)
                    http://www.renderplus.com/wk/RpTreeMaker_Free_w.htm

                    Gai...

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
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                      @fuzzion said:

                      We have a fur/grass/leave making plugin. Whats stopping us from makaing a 3d tree maker plugin?

                      Nothing. I started writing one one night. I got it to make the trunk and branches randomly, then got busy and never got passed that unfortunately. It has always been a dream of mine to write this toool.....someday I guess.

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        @chris fullmer said:

                        @fuzzion said:

                        We have a fur/grass/leave making plugin. Whats stopping us from makaing a 3d tree maker plugin?

                        Nothing. I started writing one one night. I got it to make the trunk and branches randomly, then got busy and never got passed that unfortunately. It has always been a dream of mine to write this toool.....someday I guess.

                        Today Chris - today! 😉

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

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                        • fuzzionF Offline
                          fuzzion
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                          @thomthom said:

                          @chris fullmer said:

                          @fuzzion said:

                          We have a fur/grass/leave making plugin. Whats stopping us from makaing a 3d tree maker plugin?

                          Nothing. I started writing one one night. I got it to make the trunk and branches randomly, then got busy and never got passed that unfortunately. It has always been a dream of mine to write this toool.....someday I guess.

                          Today Chris - today! 😉

                          Plus it will make a lot of people happy 😄 and i bet it will be a very very popular plugin. . . .

                          "Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato

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