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    • Rich O BrienR Online
      Rich O Brien Moderator
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      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 Online
        Rich O Brien Moderator
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        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
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          close ups of the needles! nice! how many faces per tree?

          oli

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          • Rich O BrienR Online
            Rich O Brien Moderator
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            No geometry for needles. πŸ˜‰

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

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            • olisheaO Offline
              olishea
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              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 Online
                Rich O Brien Moderator
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                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 Online
                    Rich O Brien Moderator
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                    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
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                      i forgot to say thanks for the mini tut πŸ‘

                      oli

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                      • Rich O BrienR Online
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
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                        Ur welcome.

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

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                        • Rich O BrienR Online
                          Rich O Brien Moderator
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                          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
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                            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 Online
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
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                              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
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                                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
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                                  Well I know that Rich loves gardening. πŸ‘


                                  fir_finale_jpg.jpg

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                                  • Rich O BrienR Online
                                    Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                    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
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                                      Got them from a nice guy. A rugby and gardening fan.

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                                      • Rich O BrienR Online
                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                        For those interested.....

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                                        Pacific Fir Pack | SketchUcation

                                        3D SketchUp Community for Design and Engineering Professionals.

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                                        Includes -

                                        Thea Ready SketchUp proxies

                                        .OBJ files uv mapped

                                        .SKP files uv mapped

                                        Render maps

                                        2D FaceMe components

                                        Free if you are a Premium member

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

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
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                                          Thanks πŸ˜„
                                          πŸŽ‰

                                          TIG

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                                          • olisheaO Offline
                                            olishea
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                                            nice look forward to using them.

                                            oli

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