Thanks for the compliments on the tree. I couldn't remember yesterday where I would have got the settings for that willow (I'm sure as a beginner I never came up with those myself). Now I have remembered and it's the now missing Brycelab Tree Database. I still have a copy of the page and settings on my hard drive though I saved the trees and forgot the source obviously (blush).

I have a bit of a tree obsession, love foliage in my pictures so I've got a mass of links to places I've learned about the tree lab over the last couple of years, I'll check out which are still live and paste them in:

The best most detailed tree lab tutorials are:

Brycetech
http://www.brycetech.com/tutor/bryce/tree1.html

Robinwood as part of Lesson 3 in her Beginning Bryce tutorial

http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/BryceTuts/BryceClasses/BBryce3/BBryceLesson3-2.html

Those two cover the basic settings in the most detail but I have to be honest, there is still so much I don't understand about how those parameters work.

The best tree settings I know, I use and modify these all the time when I'm filling a scene with trees. Think the guy's name is Androo but don't know much more than that.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rodv/leaf/tree.htm

This site also has great resources in -

a pdf of all the preset trees with the 5.01 patch
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rodv/leaf/b5point1trees/index.htm

a pdf of leafshapes that come with Bryce
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rodv/leaf/index.htm

Both really useful for working on variety in your trees.

Lynn Dee's treelab secrets
http://www.artistree.us/tutorials/treelab/index.html

Danamo, love your Arboro willow and Ysvry, that palm is great.
I'm wondering if you Arboro users have ever found that you export a tree, it reaches 100 per cent but fails to complete in that the obj file remains at 0kb? I was trying to get a decent willow on it last night and got some good looking modifications such as setting the levels of splitting at level three to make shorter fronds... only to find that the obj would just stay empty so I never got a proper look at it. I'll try it with DXF today now I've read your comments on that.

Raylaz, have you tried using right click on the arboro_gui.jar and 'Open with' in order to get it to open with Java rather than WinRar? I hate the way some programs hijack filetypes like that. Sadly it looks like most of my other links are dead now.

Message edited on: 04/21/2005 03:22