Making SketchUp Choke
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Have needed to come up with some higher poly trees that look better in renders. Have a bunch of various tree models that work well in n.p.r. images but not so well when closer to the camera and trying to push the renders towards photo real. Started reworking some of the trees to better suit me and boy do they start choking SU
. It's really not unexpected though.
Posting a tree I just finished reworking. The leaves are .png images of a maple leaf. Make the leaf a component then make a small grouping of five leaves a component. Then copy that around into a decent size cluster and make that a component. It's just brute force from there copying the big bunch of leaves around the tree to suit me.
There's around 36,000 leaves in the model I'm posting. It didn't start getting the "flashes" when orbiting until about three fourths of the leaves where in place.
Finished a huge oak tree a few days back. That one really gives SU a headache , close to 100,000 leaves in it.
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I noticed your trees are getting good. Trees aren't easy just to draw, let alone to make realistic in a 3d environment. I think the trunk is coming along nicely. Fortunately you can use proxies but how to handle it while building the tree?
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Thanks pbacot . Can't take all the credit for how the trees turn out. I use lower poly trees I've acquired from various sources as "models" and refine the trunk and branch shapes and increase the poly count somewhat so the new tree will render better. Layers are your friend when it comes time to start putting on the leaf clusters. When the model starts to get to "flashing" real bad I'll start placing the leaf clusters on different layers so I can hide the ones on the side I'm not working on. Oh.. and of course staying in monochrome mode as much as possible is a must.
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Just so you know, it's easier for SketchUp to handle a lot of raw geometry (many faces in the same context), than a lot of groups/components.
Having a lot of raw geometry will make the file bigger and less editable, but it will be much faster to display.
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