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!

[Alfons Akamp]

Die Bäume in AR5 werden genau so eingefügt wie du das auch in AR3 oder AR4 gemacht hast. Da gibt es keinen Unterschied und keine Probleme. Sieht in AR5 super aus.

Alfons

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The Widgets button at the top of the control panel contains a plants area where you can access most of the functionality.

Info on creating plants or inserting existing or legacy plants is here.  Let me know if you need more help.

[Jan Davis]

On that page, it says to do the following:

To Insert an nXt Plant:

1. Select Widgets→Plants→Add… from the nXt palette menu bar
   However, I get a blank page with the note "No items match your search"
   I had already tried this.  The question is, "How do I get lants into that file?"

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The download doesn't come with plants-- there are a couple of links in the article to web pages with downloadable plants.  You'll need to grab some of these.  Here's the link repeated for your convenience.

To use your ar3/ar4 plants you'll need to follow the instructions in the article.  Let me know if you run in problems with this-- it can be non-trivial if you don't have a legacy version installed on your computer.

[Jan Davis]

Roy Hirshkowitz said:

The download doesn't come with plants-- there are a couple of links in the article to web pages with downloadable plants.  You'll need to grab some of these.  Here's the link repeated for your convenience.

To use your ar3/ar4 plants you'll need to follow the instructions in the article.  Let me know if you run in problems with this-- it can be non-trivial if you don't have a legacy version installed on your computer.

[Jan Davis]

I do not have legacy plants installed on this computer. I will try your other suggestion. Thanks

Jan Davis said:

Roy Hirshkowitz said:

The download doesn't come with plants-- there are a couple of links in the article to web pages with downloadable plants.  You'll need to grab some of these.  Here's the link repeated for your convenience.

To use your ar3/ar4 plants you'll need to follow the instructions in the article.  Let me know if you run in problems with this-- it can be non-trivial if you don't have a legacy version installed on your computer.

[Jan Davis]

This is so frustrating.  I am still getting the same 'file does not exist' notice. I have downloaded one of the files in the link that you sent, and I unzipped it, but it seems to have disappeared - at least got itself filed into a location that does not exist on the computer.  There must be a simpler way.  I have my original Accurender3 disk here...Is it possible to access the old trees from that?  If so, how do I locate them on the disk, and where can I save them so they are accessible by NXT commands?

[Jan Davis]

I seem to have gotten it !

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I'm not sure how you're getting an error message-- that part is kind of interesting.

The downloadable plant libraries are just a collection of folders and files in zip format.  They need to be unzipped to someplace known to you.  The files will have an extension of .ArPlant-- the folders are standard windows folders.  The Plants->Add... option is just a standard open file dialog box.  You'll need to navigate over to the plant files which you have unzipped and select one.

There may be something else going on here-- normally this part is pretty easy for people.  I may need to pass you to someone at tech support if this still seems too difficult.

[Jan Davis]

Okay, I installed a blue spruce and asked NXT to render the drawing.  I got a bell sound and a warning screen that said: "Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application.  If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.  Attempted yo read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt"

Now I am not able to access or edit the drawing!

[Jan Davis]

Roy: I followed the instructions on the page that you sent to me in your response of August 3.  The page says "

To Insert an nXt Plant:

1. Select Widgets→Plants→Add… from the nXt palette menu bar
2. Select the .ArPlant file you want to insert
   But there is nothing there to choose from!

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

You have to navigate to the extracted plant files-- the ones you downloaded and unzipped.  Once there you'll see folders and files.

If you need to start again, download the plant files and extract (unzip) them to a known location.