Hi all, I know there are several good Christmas trees available for free and to buy, however, none of them are like the trees I remember from Christmas's past, or like the tree I put up every year. So I went and made my own! It's VOB file, a completely original mesh of about 120,000 polygons...about the same as your standard Vue Walnut tree. It renders easy because all the lights on the tree are faked using luminous glow materials. The picture above took less and 5 minutes to render on Final. I'd love to share it with anyone who wants it, but I need someone to host it for me. It's not a small file. It's 5 megs zipped. If anyone is willing to host it and post it to the Renderosity free stuff, I'd be grateful. -SMT

I've tweaked it overnight. The branches are a bit better spaced, and it's now down under 60,000 polygons. The zip download is now 3.36 megs. Anyone want it?

Great looking tree !!!

The tree looks really good on it's own. The decorations can be removed? Would be cool. Mulit purpose that way.

A lovely tree! I will definitely use it if someone will host it. Thank you smallspace!

Ah, you get the same kind of tree we get. I like firs since you can see into (and through) them and put lights and ornaments on interior branches. Hope you find a nice home for it. jon

"I like firs since you can see into (and through) them and put lights and ornaments on interior branches." Jon, that's funny! That's the same thing my mother has always said! :) In it's present "VOB" form, it's all one object for MUCH faster rendering. However, in it's original Caligari Truespace form, it's made up of 4210 sub-objects, so if there is a desire for just the bare tree, or the tree with just lights or just lights and beads, I can do that without too much work. -SMT

Suddenly it really feels like Christmas is coming! Nice work.

Well, I've done much of nothing for the community. I have a site I can use but it has a limit of 5 GB on it. Let's see... Let's round it to 4MB...that means I get 25 downloads out of 100 MB...and one GB of transfer would mean 10 times that amount...so 250 downloads from one GB. (is my math correct?) Shouldn't be more than 1,000 downloads, so...I'll host it for the month of December. If this is OK, please contact me and tell me what to do.

"Kate the Shrew" has offed to host both Vue and Poser versions. I've already uploaded them to her site. Since I did the conversions in Vue4 Pro and Poser 5, we're just checking to see if there are any problems in Vue d'Esprit or Poser 4. As soon as that's done, they'll be available in the Free Stuff. Thanks for your offer, Chuck! If Kate hadn't already offered, I'd take you up on it. :) -SMT

Great to hear! Glad your hard work is being put to use.

Thank you all I have been looking and looking for something like this