mdunakin opened this issue on May 01, 2007 · 43 posts
mdunakin posted Thu, 03 May 2007 at 7:53 PM
This is the original person who posted the freebies for all of us, his name is, Tim Ellis.
ivy_generator_Textures.zip (7,006 KB)
set of textures including normal maps etc., kindly provided by Tim Ellis
You can download all the textures right there from the Ivy Gen site.
It's down a ways from the first links to the app that you find there on the site.
I'm really looking forward to finding some other types of Ivy leafs or
for that matter, what about other types of just vines of various types?
I've actually thought of some fun things people "might?" want to try out?
If someone knows how to make some items such as a bunch of grapes, small sizes
and larger sizes and less ripe colors and fully ripened versions and things like little blue
flowers and whitish yellow flowers, you could make things like grape vines in vinyards
and honey suckle vines that love to grow on wire fences and things like that and
just manually stick those in ater after you have the vines all made.
Since you wouldn't need a ton in your vines, this would be a completely possible thing to do :)
I know that "I" plan on doing this sort of thing.
And again, on a note I made earlier, pleassseeee remember to adjust that first slider
up a little and try to make your vines a little less crounded as this will save you by
several megs on the file sizes and of course, on the render times as well.
This is very important to NOT ever forget about while creating your cool looking vines :)
NOTE: Please post here and/or let me know if anyone creates any new versions of leafs or
any other items that can be used with them, as I will put them all into one folder for download.
I've already talked with Thomas on posting these sorts of things, like the tutorial
and anything else that might be relevant and I of course always let him know
any new plans I might have before posting just to keep him in the loop.
I know he is a very busy guy and this Ivy program was really just a project
and never really intended for him to spend much public time on it,
or at least thats the impression I've gotten from him so far.
Oh,, and I think that maybe the textures that come with the Textures Folder, might be able
to be changed somewhat to make smaller the file sizes of those, as I noticed they were all
set pretty high on the quality end of things and I don't think they really need that much quality
for little leafs that mostly aren't going to be seen that close to notice if they are less quality
or not, from a 24bit compared to maybe a 16 bit or something, know what I mean?
I'm just saying, it might be fun just to see? if they can be changed for lessing file sizes.
.........................md :)