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    • HieruH Offline
      Hieru
      last edited by

      I'm not sure what the problem is.

      There is a slight lag when navigating your file with my 3DConnexion, but using my mouse everything runs smoothly. The same goes if I use scenes.

      I did try populating a plane with 700 of the trees and understandably SU started to struggle.

      What kind of scenario is causing you trouble?

      www.davidhier.co.uk

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      • EarthMoverE Offline
        EarthMover
        last edited by

        Why not set your presentation up as a Scene tab animation. Then you can determine which trees will be in the close ups and which will remain in the distance. The ones in the distance you can swap out for 2D faceme components and no one will be the wiser.

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        • HieruH Offline
          Hieru
          last edited by

          Good suggestion πŸ‘

          www.davidhier.co.uk

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            @earthmover said:

            The ones in the distance you can swap out for 2D faceme components and no one will be the wiser.

            And the ones behind the camera, hide completely.

            Gai...

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            • HieruH Offline
              Hieru
              last edited by

              As long as you frame the scene properly (a bank of disappearing trees might look a bit odd) or remove the animation between scenes πŸ˜‰

              www.davidhier.co.uk

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              • pyrolunaP Offline
                pyroluna
                last edited by

                I got this tree earlier from this very forum, but I don't remember from whom and I'm too lazy to look it up.
                I find it very useable. Also the texture for the leaves is neatly colorizable to green or whichever color you wish


                Tree with face me leaf-clusters

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                • GaieusG Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  I think it was Alan Fraser. Indeed nice one!

                  Gai...

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                  • EdsonE Offline
                    Edson
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    I got this tree earlier from this very forum, but I don't remember from whom and I'm too lazy to look it up.
                    I find it very useable. Also the texture for the leaves is neatly colorizable to green or whichever color you wish

                    martha, how would you go about changing the colors of the leaves?

                    Edit: ok, never mind. I found it out.

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                    • D Offline
                      davesec
                      last edited by

                      hi!

                      hieru, how do you get background images and grass as demonstrated in the third and fourth picture you posted? is it just a 2d background drawing? do you draw a big square on the ground and texture it with grass? if you zoomed out a bunch would it still look like that? i'm having trouble with backgrounds!

                      thanks!

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                      • HieruH Offline
                        Hieru
                        last edited by

                        It's a spherical image (IBL) used in Thea Render with a shadow catcher material applied to a ground plane (see Solo's tutorial). The sky, tree line and grass are all part of the background image.

                        Using this method you can zoom out as much as you want - although you can run into scale issues.

                        www.davidhier.co.uk

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                        • Bob JamesB Offline
                          Bob James
                          last edited by

                          @unknownuser said:

                          I got this tree earlier from this very forum, but I don't remember from whom and I'm too lazy to look it up.
                          I find it very useable. Also the texture for the leaves is neatly colorizable to green or whichever color you wish

                          I tried to render this tree in Thea, but all I get is planes. Am I expecting too much or .....?

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                          • GaieusG Offline
                            Gaieus
                            last edited by

                            I renders fine for me (however you cannot spin around as there are face-me components in it and the current version does not support them):

                            tree.png

                            Do you get the clip loaded for the image file?


                            file.png


                            clip.png

                            Gai...

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