Fractal Tree Maker for SketchUp - Free add-on

Chris Fullmer

(off topic) I spent some time in Itajuba (em Minas Gerais) and Campos do Jordao and there are lots of the parana arucaria there. Absoultely some of the most amazing trees I've ever seen! They are HUGE. Good request Aces,

Chris

Al Hart

@aceshigh said:

Al, do you think its possible to create Paraná Pines (a type of Araucaria tree that is very common in my area) in RPTreeMaker?

I pass this on to Roy, who wrote RpTreeMaker, and see if he has any ideas.

Can you get something similar by overlapping two trees - one for the top branches, and one for the lower branches?

Tobobo

Al,

If you look at the images below there is something weird happening around the edges of the trees/shrubs. Is this because I chose the medium quality processing?

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Thanks

Al Hart

@tobobo said:

Al,

If you look at the images below there is something weird happening around the edges of the trees/shrubs. Is this because I chose the medium quality processing?

Thanks

This is caused by the partial transparency at the edge of the tree image.

I will take a look at it.

Higher resolution images will make it less noticeable, but will not eliminate it.

Tobobo

Thanks Al

juju

@al hart said:

@tobobo said:

Al,

If you look at the images below there is something weird happening around the edges of the trees/shrubs. Is this because I chose the medium quality processing?

Thanks

This is caused by the partial transparency at the edge of the tree image.

I will take a look at it.

Higher resolution images will make it less noticeable, but will not eliminate it.

Just following up on this Al, any feedback?

RogerB

Remove the edges around the trees by setting transparency quality to nicer under styles>edit>faces.

Al Hart

@rogerb said:

Remove the edges around the trees by setting transparency quality to nicer under styles>edit>faces.

Wow! What a great trick to know.

Let me know if it works.

Al

EarthMover

I never knew that either. It works like a charm...thanks for the tip Roger.

smokinbakin

Thanks a lot Al

Tobobo

@rogerb said:

Remove the edges around the trees by setting transparency quality to nicer under styles>edit>faces.

Thanks Roger!

RogerB

Glad you found it useful. I have always believed this was common knowledge. I noticed the same problem way back when this plugin was released but I did not see it mentioned anywhere, so I thought there must be something I am doing wrong. After some googling I found this setting mentioned somewhere on the web.

phrimagination

Hello Everybody, hello Al

I am new in Sketchucation...
I am a long time user of sketchup since v2 from france but never tried ruby plug before. But since I red Daniel Tal book Google sketchup for Site Design I am very in trying plug in where I learned about amazing and powerfull Fred tools and more. I went to Sketchucation to download extensions plug in, I would to thank Gaius to help me to register.

I loaded fractal Tree Maker it is a very nice and useful tools. For me it works on my laptop a Dell Inspirion 1720 with vista, but I did not succeed to make it work on my old desktop a gateway GT 5220 with XP pro. Here the message.
Error Loading File RpTreeMaker_loader.rb
126: The specified module could not be found. - H:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Win32API.so

Gaieus

Hi Phan - glad you made it finally.

Now as for the error - it doesn't seem to do anything with the plugin but there's some problem with your XP I guess.

Chris Fullmer

it looks like it uses a file called win32API.so This is a sort of common script that other plugins use too. You can just copy it from your first computer onto your second computer. It will be located in the Plugins folder inside of SketchUp. Just copy it to the second computer, to the plugins folder, and then try the script again.

Chris

Al Hart

@unknownuser said:

H:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Win32API.so

Check to see if the file exists at that location on your machine.

windrockwater

This is a very cool tool. Out of curiousity, what is the workflow of using Vray with this? I see the checkbox in options. But what does it do? Do you still have to assign the alpha map manually in Vray?
Otherwise, i tried this plugin with sketchup and its pretty cool!

thomthom

@windrockwater said:

Do you still have to assign the alpha map manually in Vray?

With the current versions, yes.

Tobobo

Al,

Could you add in standrad tree shapes as defaults?

phrimagination

Thanks to Al, Chris and Gaius, I made a copy of what was installed in my laptop: the 3 files in sketchup/plugin and all folder the Render Plus System in Program Files and now it s working. I think that something was not installed in the render plus system....