Flora & Fauna

[Rich Rosemann]

Good Morning,

 

Has anyone found a web site that offers trees, shrubs & ground cover that works well with nXt?

Without a whole lot of work, of course.  THe nXt Plant Manager is very nice, but limited (for me) to create specific species.  Thanks for any info.

 

Rich Rosemann

 

[akinlolu olugboji]

Talk to Cadboss or search past forums there was one online cannot remember.

[George Ioannidis]

No Akinlolu, Rich is not looking for some generic, non-existing vegetation like IVY generator does in order just to adorn the final rendering scene. He is looking for particular existing trees, shrubs and flowers suitable for nXt. I think it will be more than difficult to find something like that in 3D, so Rich has to use some "cut-out" bitmaps. The drawback of that is, that they must be placed into renderings  as post process work in photo editing programs. It is very hard to do that, especially when you have to do more than just one rendering. It is more than difficult to place those cut-outs directly into 3D model as decals on 3D faces. They never look good and real enough to me.

Another possible solution is to use RPC. RPCs are generally good-looking entourage, people, cars etc., I just don't know if there are specific botanic species (they have some collections of named plants) and they are not cheap at all. They cannot be grown as nXt trees can do though, so they will look similar when inserted in bigger number of the same kind in the model.

[akinlolu olugboji]

http://www.accurender.com/forum/topics/textured-objects-coordinates...

[Kevin Lockwood]

I've had pretty good luck with a few of these. I haven't tested them all and I forget which work and which didn't.

Xfrog Public Trees

[George Ioannidis]

Oh, nice stuff there, Kevin! Thanks. :)

I'd already tried chestnut and it is OK, it just needs adjustment of bitmaps assigned to leafs and bark. Leafs have visible white contour (obviously some opacity issue are happening here)

Resulting files are really huge (especially for trees).

[Rich Rosemann]

You are right George.  They look quite good,  and large.

I downloaded a shrub 10.4 Mb.  I'm afraid to insert it into my already large drawing.

 

 

[akinlolu olugboji]

How did you get to assign the materials especially to the bark and leaves, I have not being successful with it.

[Ros. Riha]

How did you download the chestnut? It shows me 3DS format grayed out and OBJ format does not show materials...

[George Ioannidis]

Ros, I use obj files instead of 3ds. It seems Accutrans can better handle those files. Yes, bitmaps are not showing first, but I can relocate bitmaps in Accutrans so they will be saved properly for use in AutoCAD and nXt.  I think Right Hemisphere DE must have something similar in object's internal part and material listing. Redefine your bitmaps and re-save the obj file. That did the trick for me.

Another reason I prefer obj files is that they are usable in other renderers I am experimenting too (Kerkythea, Blender...)

[Ros. Riha]

could you, please, either post working dwgs or describe the exact procedure what to do? The first option seems more logical to me - it is pointless for more of us to do the same tedious task...accustudio?

[George Ioannidis]

I could convert them in order leaves and bark to be OK, but it will be rather slow procedure. Furthermore, resulting files are HUGE in size (zipped file is about 10MB for one chestnut tree in .obj format) and I don't know where they could be uploaded. I don't think NG can receive such files (5MB limit).

[Ros. Riha]

if you would be so kind as to do this, then you could probably post them to accustudio. Subsequently, I could try to reduce them slightly - DE can give better results than the example I shown earlier, it only needs more time and tweaking