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dark donkey
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Posted: 10th Nov 2006 22:07
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hi, i was just thinking about the rpg i am planning to make in the future, when i came to a problem what was i going to do about trees. So i tryed my luck and modeld a ree in wings3d yes it looked nice but it was high polly infact it was over 3k pollys, so i thought that was just a min too much for just a tree. So what i am looking for is a free treemodeler, any help would be appreciated.

thanks!

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 00:30 Edited at: 11th Nov 2006 00:31
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Ahah, I've tried looking myself, you will find it very difficult to find one, after hours of googling, I found no result, any I did find where extremely high poly, and exported with missing polygons. They had a Treemagik Plus which was free, but there is a download no where to be found of it as its not supported any more.

So what I did was look at how trees are made and tried it, my texturing skills let me down, but I know the technique for both the modelling at the texturing (even if mine did turn out crap) and I interpreted that into a tutorial:

Its done in Cinema 4D, but everything done is generic and can be done the same way in almost every 3D app, and the photoshopping can even be done in Paint.NET or GIMP. You should be able to shape it a lot better, but the tutorial is to teach the technique, considering I wrote it over a year a go

http://www.ozarkgames.com/smf/index.php?topic=528.0

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dark donkey
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thanks, but i heard of a program called treegen thats meant to be free but i did not find that. So i am looking at your tutorial right now.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 11:18
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Treegen eh? Well I don't think I've heard of it myself, actually I think there was a program by the Gile[s] lot that you can add to giles if you already own it, if you don't then bugger And hope the tutorial helps.

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dark donkey
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thanks for that tut just finest a good tree and it only 323 pollys amazing. Thanks seppuku

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JimB
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 14:43
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This site still has the old Treemagik (the free one) available.
http://gdlib.net/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=29
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 14:58
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Nice find, consider it theivificated.

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JimB
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theivificated ?
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 16:10
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Made up word, my apologies.

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dark donkey
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thanks! but one question where does it save the tree file to?

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JimB
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 16:22
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Quote: "thanks! but one question where does it save the tree file to?"


In a folder in its own directory,just search where you installed it.
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dark donkey
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 16:26
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found it but it only exports b3d is ther any plugins for an x exporter

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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 16:38
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There was, if alien codec's website still exists

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JimB
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Posted: 11th Nov 2006 17:29 Edited at: 11th Nov 2006 18:35
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Quote: "found it but it only exports b3d is ther any plugins for an x exporter"


Correction did you install the TREEmagik_update_1_0b ?
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Sunflash
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Pssssst... I'm planning to release a pack of 80-100 trees soon... if your interested

"I must tell the Queen that a robin has seen Cludd hanging about. No, thats not right. I must tell the robin that Cludd has been hanging the Queen..." -Mossflower.
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dark donkey
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will they be free, i got treemagic to work but i have to save them as b3d mesh but any way t.ed inports b3d mesh'd

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dark donkey
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in t.ed you no if it is possible to move your props down

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Quote: " i got treemagic to work but i have to save them as b3d mesh but any way t.ed inports b3d mesh'd"


You can save to .X if you unzip the contents of "TREEmagik_update_1_0b " then overwrite the original files in C:\VisZero\TREEmagik
When saving as an .X it will be saved to "
C:\VisZero\TREEmagik\X_exports"
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Sunflash
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Posted: 12th Nov 2006 19:46
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No, sadly the tree pack won't be free, it will probably be something like 9.95 USD or 14.95 USD.
Yes, in Te.d you can move props up/down, you can scale them, and rotate them too. Te.d is probably the best terrain editor there is (almost).

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apart from the e.p.r loading problem

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