Tree maker plugin

[massimo]

Have a look at this
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtop ... 78#p476278
Tried quite quickly, but it seems really powerful. You can make almost infinite adjustments and slight variations on a template.

Here, for example, are some variations on an olive tree template. Just SU's hidden line style.

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[Fletch]

Excellent, Massimo!
Thanks for the "heads up".

Those leaves look about 30% too big.

[massimo]

Well, that was quick and I've just kept the default size.
Played a bit with trunk and leaves. Better?
The great thing is that is a parametric tool and you can easily modify everything. Also you have a ton of settings for each element of the tree.

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[Fletch]

Good to know!
We'll have to give it a try. How well do they render with Twilight?

[Gareth]

some of them render ok....depends on the leaf colour

need to do some experimenting

[Gareth]

let me know if you can work out how to make a Palm tree.....i'm having no luck with that

[massimo]

Didn't really tried with a palm Gareth. Seems difficult anyway.

How well do they render with Twilight?

some of them render ok....depends on the leaf colour

The great thing, just discovered, is that you can make your own leaf model: just save it in the folder that comes with the plugin and then you'll find it in the drop down menu. So we can make X-frog like trees making a simple rectangular shape for the leaves and then applying a PNG leaf texture to them. Maybe I'll try something later.

[massimo]

Ok, first very quick try with a X-frog like tree:
-not worked at all on the tree's shape, branches, sub-branches etc.;
-just 1 leaf PNG texture used;
-materials quickly made with a couple of templates: in particular leaves have no translucency, only some reflectance;
-only 5 passes with easy 09.
Anyway the result seems not bad already.

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[Gareth]

I've been using TreeD for the past year or so.....it is similar in the way you would go about building the tree structure but is a little messy getting it to work in SketchUp and then render

http://www.frecle.net/?show=treed.about

I wonder if the leaf textures can be utilised with the Tree Maker plugin ?

[massimo]

Well never tried tree[d], but you can use any PNG with transparency as leaves.
Here is how the tree looks in SU with my custom leaves.

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