Posts made by cadmunkey

Well you have got off to a great start! Great model by the way. As far as composition of the model is concerned, I'd try not to crop the top of the masts off like you have done. Try get all the ship in the shot. Great stuff!

Looks great. Ahh brings back memories of my childhood

I think you did a great job. Nice work.

I really needed to move on from 32bit memory space. Looks like I will have to buy a render app that has an external 64bit studio. Any recommendations?

Jeez.. no 64 bit version in 2010? C'mon Google you've dropped the ball! You beta testers couldnt persuade them?

Vray.

Thanks for your reply TIG,the materials are importing correctly. I think its my render program that has the issue. It is not rendering the png clipmaps that are on sides facing the wrong way.

Sorry I meant half render as solids half render with clipmapped leafs. If I reverse the faces of the solids then the mapping is all wrong. Maybe something I have to change in my render software, I'll check it out.

Hmm mine always imports into sketchup without textures. Workflow is:
Make tree in treed
export to OBJ format
import using TIGS script.

Doing anything wrong? Unless treed is not exporting the textures?

edit seems that you have to export the obj to same location as the texture maps. But half the leaves import as solid faces and half are pngs. Weird.

Thanks for the feedback. Dont hold your breath waiting for that decent manual for it tho
I might have to check it out.

Hi puck, did you purchase this without having a demo of it first?
I liked Randomcontrols fryrender, but they never seemed to put in the time and effort with the sketchup plugin so it always stayed at that 'beta stage' feel for me. SU was seen as a third rate app over there. Hope Arion turns outo to be much better for you as it looks great!

I think its a video card problem. The model looks fine on my Nvidia card (i.e. not like your screenie), plus the only reversed faces in the model are on the cooker hood.

@rv1974 said:

It's clear that Zbrush lays in the completly diffrent niche
I'm talking about being innovative. The last time Skechup amazed me was many years ago.
Except an amateurs plugins the programm development is in adeep stagnation IMO

Yes I know what you mean, but I guess @Last were alot more in love with the original software than Google are. I dont see version 8 being much of an improvement over what we already have. The upgrade from v6 to v7 was pretty poor.

Nice video, why not just get Zbrush?
SU is a long way off from this...

I figured out why treed wasnt running on my system. You cant run it at 2560x1600 resolution, so I will let the developers know.

Yes thats the 1 post I did read, but its from 2007 I think and I dont have a dual monitor setup OR an old graphics card. Its a standard Nvidia 280GT. Ive made a post on the tree[d] forum about it, hopefully it will get some response. Thanks for trying to help anyway.

I tried that frecle tree program but I get an error message "unable to create 3d scene" when it starts and immediately crashes out. Any ideas why? Looked on their forum and noone else seems to have suffered the error.

Thanks for sharing your workflow Starling

Yer those look fantastic Landie.

These are superb Oli, thanks for being so generous and sharing them.