130 Free xFrog Plants! (no piracy)

Krisidious · 26 Jan 2011, 23:29

so which one should we get for Sketchup and does anyone know which ones are best for Vue?

Gaieus · 26 Jan 2011, 23:37

I don't think you should get any of these into SU.

Krisidious · 27 Jan 2011, 01:56

too big and cumberson huh?

Hieru · 27 Jan 2011, 12:09

If you were going to use them in SU, I suppose that the 3ds option might be best. On the few occasions I've used 3ds Xfrog models on SU, I haven't encountered any major problems (except the obvious slowdown).

jsmith · 29 Jan 2011, 23:02

Thanks for the information. These are beautiful models, but the first one I downloaded had a young, medium and adult form of a flowering tree. The total size of the 3 combined was near 350 MG as sketchup models. The only way I can use these is to make elevations and then export them to photoshop for 2D pngs. This will give you a multitude of different looking trees to work with. They will be great for finishing up a rendering in Photoshop, or a 2d tree in sketchup. Included with the downloads are tifs, which can be converted to pngs.

Gareth · 2 Feb 2011, 06:44

a small set of these are available in Twilight....it will grow to almost the full set over the next few weeks

Gareth · 2 Feb 2011, 06:47

@krisidious said:

too big and cumberson huh?

they are more manageable than you might think....a little time consuming initially, but well worth the effort..!

ajohncarter · 6 Nov 2011, 01:42

When importing the 3ds files into SU I'm having trouble getting the graphics to look right. For example, with a tree import how to you make the translucent plane that displays the photo graphic of the leaves go away so that just the photo is there? I managed to do it a while back but now I'm rusty... or maybe it was a feature on SU 7?

Thanks in advance.

Alex

jumping_jack · 11 Aug 2013, 12:59

hello
i downloaded one of those free models from the xfrog website, the Rosemary Grevillea: http://xfrog.com/product/OC54.html but i have strange issues during rendering in vray for sketchup. i used the UV Toolkit2 plugin that copies the maps from frontface material to the backface and in vray material menu i checked the transparency form map option, but when i try to render the plant i have a kind of black hole behind it. similar burnt effect i had with overlapping surfaces but it's not the case i guess. anybody of you experienced similar problems before? how can i get rid of it?

it's visible even in the alpha channel:

it appears behind the plant no matter what point of view i choose...

Pixero · 11 Aug 2013, 14:59

Maybe you should try to up your tracing depth?

jumping_jack · 27 Aug 2013, 19:57

thanks, it wasn't the tracing depth issue, but your post helped me to find out, it was transparency level default setting that was too low, i raised it to 500 and now everything is fine.