Trees

[Jan Davis]

First, I want to thank you for the help with getting going on NXT, the help was great.  Now I have to ask if there is a simple way to insert trees into a rendering.  The original Accurender 3 and 4 was super easy and effective.  I look forward to the new method!

[Jan Davis]

The trees in the files are generally not native to my region and seem to slow the rendering process significantly.   Some are rather sparse in leaf density.  I liked the trees in Accurender3, which gave me the ability to choose the season.  Is there a way to find these 'legacy' plants on the old accurender disk?  What would be their extension, or directory?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I just talked to Scott about this.  He should be able to get you the legacy plants, but he's busy today and it may take him a day or so.

All plants, legacy included, will slow the rendering process (they did so in ar3 as well.)  Seasons are not available in nXt plants-- can't remember if they are with the legacy ones.

[Jan Davis]

They are all coming inminiscule. I think they are being inserted as metric.  I need to scale them all by a factor of about 40.  Is there any way to do this before or during insertion, rather than after?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Your drawing units are set incorrectly.  This will affect everything-- materials, lighting, plants, etc..  Use the AutoCAD UNITS command and make sure the insertion units are set correctly.

[Jan Davis]

My insertion scale is (and was) set to Architectural - inches, which seems to be correct for most things, but even after re-setting them, the trees come in exceedingly small.  I will continue to try to find the problem.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

There's something wrong with the insertion units.  Send a small example drawing-- I'll take a look.

[Jan Davis]

Got it!