Twilight Trees?

[Ecuadorian]

So you're on a Mac, then?

Well, here's my lame attempt to make a "recursive" version of the tree (Hoping someone takes up the idea )

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[Frederik]

I like the way the Kerkythea trees rendered in K - but haven't found a way to bring those into SketchUp.
Is there a chance we will be getting some Twilight Trees at some point...or is there a way to bring in the trees that we could bring into Kerkythea?

The trees you're mentioning are trees from Greenworks Xfrog and as long as SU is fairly poor when it comes to handle high-poly, it's impossible to import these trees directly into SU and thereby render them using Twilight Render...
(You might have luck importing one tree, but SU will be very slow...)

Having said that - and without spilling the beans - I hope that in the future you will be able to render these and similar high-poly trees and other high-poly components...
It's a matter of making an instancing system, where you place a low-poly component in SU, but when rendered it will be replaced by a high-poly component...

Cross your fingers and make a wish and maybe some day it will come true...

[Ecuadorian]

without spilling the beans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learn ... eans.shtml
I like this BBC show
Watch the rest of the videos, they're lots of fun and you'll learn a couple of things:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learn ... heteacher/
...sorry for the Off Topic. Perhaps we should start a thread on Resources for English learners?

[tomsdesk]

Have you tried the 2.5d trees? They don't load your SU models much at all and they render nicely-to-excellent in Twilight (though some of them require the leaf-bunch image to be exploded, then the 4 image-face edges to be hidden).

You can find several free ones to play with on the SketchUcation forum.

[Pilou]

@ecuadorian
beautiful fake tree

[Gaieus]

Fredo has a "Ghost Component" Plugin which is very promising along with TL's ability to render components on hidden layers.

[Fletch]

Leaves in Twilight benefit a lot from having some translucence

[marvins_dad]

Here they are in my model.

I'm going to have to check out the other suggestions...definitely need a big library of trees that look good.

[marvins_dad]

Can't search for "2.5d" on their forum...so having a hard time finding the threads you are referring to.

Have you tried the 2.5d trees? They don't load your SU models much at all and they render nicely-to-excellent in Twilight (though some of them require the leaf-bunch image to be exploded, then the 4 image-face edges to be hidden).

You can find several free ones to play with on the SketchUcation forum.

[tomsdesk]

Search "tomsdesk" in the components forum...(beautiful modeling on the courthouse BTW)