Recover AR4 legacy plants

[Marc Chaumier]

Hi, does anyone knows, if it's possible to recover the legacy AR4 plant library? When I try to do it, the only things I get, are the materials from the plants, but any plants. Thanks.

[akinlolu olugboji]

When you say recover, you mean as in Autocad command?

[Marc Chaumier]

No, I mean re-use the plants that worked with ar4, and that I'd like to use with nXt.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Groundcover doesn't work-- most everything else should work OK. Use Widgets->Add Legacy Plant... You'll need to make sure nXt can find paths to all of the support files-- that part can be a bit tricky-- there are opacity maps, materials, plant libs, etc..

[Kevin Lockwood]

Is there a way to display a thumbnail of the legacy plants during this import process (Either during a selection search or import?) It's hard to know what plan't is which without knowing the exact name of what you want. For example, there are 20 different Joshua trees in the ar2 library. Most all are very different. Now its trial and error until you get the right one. Or I use the AR4 explorer to bounce back and forth for a preview. Some may not have AR4 loaded.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Not at the moment.

[Eric B]

I have not done an AR4 tree legacy import recently (on the newer builds) but if all your paths are valid and you do not have "too many" plants (whatever that means) then they should work.
If you do get "fuzzy" or weird plants check your origin and scale as these at one time did have an effect.
(This may have been fixed already)

[Marc Chaumier]

Thanks all, it works now, and the idea of thumbnails as preview is a good idea... as the idea of curved faces for leaves...;o)