Forum: Carrara


Subject: Tree Druid

Dennis445 opened this issue on May 17, 2006 · 31 posts


danamo posted Sun, 04 June 2006 at 5:12 PM

Attached Link: Bantam3d, Twig, Grass, and Scatter

Nice trees Dennis, and you're welcome. I like being able to add roots to the trees in POVTree. With a little work, both POVTree and Arbaro can output "Hero" trees; trees that look really good close-up. The only downside, besides the massive file size, is not being able to add wind animation to an imported tree(AFAIK).

 I hope Carrara6 will add more functionality into the plant modeler. The "ramified" or "hybrid" settings in the expert tab are pretty much useless in their present state as far as I can determine, though someone may show me some examples to prove me wrong.

BTW, have you ever used Twig? Twig was a commercial plant-modeling app from the artist known as Geese, the designer of Bantam3d Grass. Geese seems to have abandoned his commercial website, but he made Twig into freeware. Twig makes great flowers, wind-blown looking grass, bamboo, simple bare trees, lamps, etc. and comes with an easy to understand GUI and a lot of helpfiles and preset examples. It is available at a file locker for free download, so if you like free plant modelers, I recommend it. Cheers, Dan