Broadleaf Forest Walkthrough



*spacial wind feature not shown in this video, but already implemented

Hi Jasper,

These are good ideas. I'll try to squeeze in the wind feature before release, but the tree shape would have to wait for a future version.

Here are the other videos in the Broadleaf tree walkthrough series.

Hi Kzin, Trunks and branches are extrusions, not cylinders. The UVs are propagating along the length of the extrusion. Displacement works fine. Weeping willows are possible. You just need to add gravity to the branches and tweak to get the look you need. Closing the caps is not a problem for the tre...

There are several ways to create forests, with animation, which will be covered in upcoming (next week) walk-through videos.

Release date, as mentioned earlier in this thread, is sometime in the second half of March.

This is part 1 of the Broadleaf Tree walkthrough



So far the texture scales with growth. I'll see if I can add another option come the final release.

A couple of weeks Cacoman

Should be fixed now

For those of you planning to stay on the Softimage boat, here is an example of the grass and flower implementation in the upcoming Forester for Softimage plugin.

Hi Eugen,

You are right about the library, but at the moment this is left up to the user to create their own.

I'll consider it for future versions though.

@Rork: Forester elements are generated as polygonal geometry and render in any 3rd party renderer, and can also be exported outside of Softimage.
Automatic UVs at this stage render in renderers that support ICE UVs, like Arnold and MentalRay.

Pricing isn't finalized yet, but it should be in the range of existing Softimage plugins.

Hi all,

I am glad to announce the release of our Forester plugin for Softimage.
Forester automates the creation of procedural trees, forests, flowers, grass and rocks.

Check out http://3dquakers.com for more details.