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    • DanielD Offline
      Daniel
      last edited by

      Very nice, Rich.
      Were they created in SU?

      My avatar is an anachronism.

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        thanks Daniel

        No I didn't use SU because of the time involved.

        I used Blender to generate tree mesh and particle system to populate needle

        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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        • pbacotP Offline
          pbacot
          last edited by

          Pretty. Are you going to put them up somewhere. Thanks! though I don't have Thea.. nice work!

          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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          • Rich O BrienR Offline
            Rich O Brien Moderator
            last edited by

            They'll be added as premium content that will have the Thea mats set so you can add them as proxies and just click render.

            Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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            • Rich O BrienR Offline
              Rich O Brien Moderator
              last edited by

              Bit heavy for SU but I'll include .skp just to be sure.

              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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              • olisheaO Offline
                olishea
                last edited by

                close ups of the needles! nice! how many faces per tree?

                oli

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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                  last edited by

                  No geometry for needles. πŸ˜‰

                  Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                  • olisheaO Offline
                    olishea
                    last edited by

                    So that's instancing inside an instance, bit like inception! Go deeper and instance bugs on the needles πŸ˜† . Yeah i meant just a close up render to see the glory of the details. You should do full geometry skp too so trees can be rendered in other apps as instances. Has sapling plugin improved/developed or is it still the same?

                    oli

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                    • Rich O BrienR Offline
                      Rich O Brien Moderator
                      last edited by

                      the process is a bit involved but the end result in terms of close-ups in controllable.

                      i won't go into the whole process as it is incredibly boring.

                      but in short i start by creating a section of branch using real geometry. I render out 8 variations as .png....

                      Rich_001_06-17-2014.png

                      ...these a particle systems on a cylinder.

                      I then create the trunk using the skin modifier.

                      I then add particles and arrays to the trunk to generate the branches.

                      job done...

                      Rich_002_06-17-2014.png

                      what's controllable is the initial branch render. So the higher res you go with that the closer you can get with the camera...

                      Rich_003_06-17-2014.png

                      this tree is 5mb as a .skp which isn't too bad considering.

                      again my drive to stay away from nested components provides a big performance boost in SU.

                      silver-fir.gif

                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                      • D Offline
                        dtrarch
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                        Rich

                        Just super models. πŸ‘ πŸ‘
                        Please pub the SU files as even large landscape models can be used for face-me images when turned and scaled a bit in SU.
                        Also even big single models can be exported to Artlantis which can handle really big files and be used as ATL objects.

                        Thanks for the really good work

                        dtr

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                        • Rich O BrienR Offline
                          Rich O Brien Moderator
                          last edited by

                          You'll have them soon enough in skp and thea format

                          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                          • olisheaO Offline
                            olishea
                            last edited by

                            i forgot to say thanks for the mini tut πŸ‘

                            oli

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Ur welcome.

                              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                              • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                Rich O Brien Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Click this to see animation...

                                silver-fir.gif

                                ....with drag drop proxy support for thea

                                take-3.png

                                ...materials setup

                                ...skp and .obj formats

                                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                • cheddaC Offline
                                  chedda
                                  last edited by

                                  These look great will they be available anywhere in sketchup format πŸ˜‰ ?

                                  Kraken Wrangler https://www.flickr.com/photos/132441293@N03/

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                                  • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    They'll be in Shop on Monday.

                                    Pack includes 15 variants. In .skp and obj. All properly mapped and norm and spec maps included.

                                    For Thea users they will be a very efficient proxies in SU.

                                    They will be free for Premium members.

                                    Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                    • Bob JamesB Offline
                                      Bob James
                                      last edited by

                                      Super work, Rich, and will be very useful to me since I live on the Pacific coast.

                                      Thank you not only for these, but for all the tireless effort you put in to make a great graphics environment for us all. πŸ‘

                                      i7-4930K 3.4Ghz, 2x GTX780 6GB, 32GB DDR3-1600 ECC, OCZ Vertex 4 500GB, WD Black 3TB, 32TB NAS, 4x 27" Monitors, SpaceMouse Pro, X-keys XK-60

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                                      • massimoM Offline
                                        massimo Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Well I know that Rich loves gardening. πŸ‘


                                        fir_finale_jpg.jpg

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                                        • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                          Rich O Brien Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Ha ha...

                                          And I planted lots of real trees today....

                                          Those trees you got look nice.

                                          Where you get them?

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                                          • massimoM Offline
                                            massimo Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Got them from a nice guy. A rugby and gardening fan.

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