Trees from above

Gaieus

These are cool, Shure, IMO. Even such a "half above" tree can be made Face-me so for stills it should do the trick.

Edson; just experiment a bit on what exact angle you need (and apply some decent shadow casting, dummy component inside)

Edson

thanks, alexander and csaba.

I am not being able to import the xfrog trees into SU8. it crashes every time. is there any thing one must do in preparation for the import?

shura

Are you trying to import OBJ? For me it didn't work, but with 3DS import it was hassle-free in SU 7.
(hm, now I am not shure if I checked import options for OBJ...)

Then use Frontface To Backface Thomthom's in UV-Toolkit to get the leaves texture on the backfaces.
I also smoothed trunk and branches and hid the edges of the leaves.

Edson

@shura said:

Are you trying to import OBJ? For me it didn't work, but with 3DS import it was hassle-free in SU 7.
(hm, now I am not shure if I checked import options for OBJ...)

Then use Frontface To Backface Thomthom's in UV-Toolkit to get the leaves texture on the backfaces.
I also smoothed trunk and branches and hid the edges of the leaves.

3ds. it seemed to import it fast but SU crashed.

shura

Now OBJ import works, but it takes ages.... still running

Edit: after 2.5 hours no more progress at "processing line 205446 of 299348"

Gareth

Edson.....they are indeed quite heavy files....i found that it is wise to have absolutely nothing else running while you import a .obj file....and don't even minimise your window while it is working....

.....just wander off for a little while, have a coffee or whatever and let it do its work...!