Plant Bark Sizing

[Kevin Lockwood]

Finally starting to play with the plant editor. One thing I cant quite figure out is the sizing of bark textures. With leaves, you can give dimensions, but I don't see that for bark. In the old days, it was just a material and we could set up scale there.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

If I recall-- it's made to go one complete revolution horizontally and 1 meter of height. I may add scale factors at some point. Perhaps different scales and images for different order in the Complex template.

[Kevin Lockwood]

Time to get out my metric conversion tool :)

What about bump? Will it ever support materials like the old one did?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Using full-on materials with fixed mapping is a real possibility. The interface in the tree editor has to stay very simple-- and the materials must embed-- (the tree files have to be self-contained.) It would allow glass or chrome trees, though. Might be worth doing just for the fun factor.

Lots of other things to do first.

[Kevin Lockwood]

You know that everyone has ALWAYS wanted transparent trees... :)

[Marc Chaumier]

Pshop or gimp is good for you: 2 render: 1 with trees (short time) and one without (long time). And so in pshop, you can play with the transparency of the trees, better than could do a renderer, and even have different level of transparency on the same tree, to hide or let show some different element of the picture. I would prefer have the possibility to use curved faces as leaves, that give more realism than the flat faces ;o)

[Kevin Lockwood]

Sure, I've done that too. Making a transparent tree has been one of the most asked for plants since ar2. Personally, I'm not a fan of any sort of transparency in landscape or other features. If it's there... it's there.

Bent leaves would be nice. I was building a Queen Palm last night and gave up because I though the leaves were too unnatural without some bend. Using my old legacy plants, nXt Does just the opposite though. Looks like me in the morning.

[Sampdoria]

Hi Roy, can we have scales on this. I'm trying to create some really serious palm trees! :)

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

At some point.  In the meantime you can scale it by changing the bitmap in an editor.  The Tile is 1 meter high and 1 complete revolution.