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    • Rich O BrienR Online
      Rich O Brien Moderator
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      Just some new trees for Thea....

      take-3.png

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      • DanielD Offline
        Daniel
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        Very nice, Rich.
        Were they created in SU?

        My avatar is an anachronism.

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        • Rich O BrienR Online
          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

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          • pbacotP Offline
            pbacot
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            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 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.

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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.

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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
                    last edited by

                    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

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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
                            last edited by

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

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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
                                last edited by

                                Ur welcome.

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                                • Rich O BrienR Online
                                  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

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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‘

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                                        • massimoM Offline
                                          massimo Moderator
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                                          Well I know that Rich loves gardening. πŸ‘


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                                          • Rich O BrienR Online
                                            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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