Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Plants...anyone seen one of these

cherokee69 opened this issue on Mar 07, 2002 ยท 24 posts


Goldfire posted Thu, 07 March 2002 at 7:20 PM

For trees Liteluvr's virtual forest sets are very good. I'm working on some leaf and bark textures that will be up free at his site eventually to extend the usefulness of the sets even further. Orio also has some lovely trees made with Xfrog but they are VERY high poly. Now that I have a new computer with 512 megs of RAM I might pick some of them up - right now I only have a couple freebies he gave away a while back that made my old computer crash and burn half the time with memory overload : ) I have been pretty disappointed with most of the shrubs and such I've seen for Poser. The shapes are good, but the textures are horrible. The plants look plastic, not real But I'm a botanist, so I'm pretty darn hard to please in that department : ) Eventually I'll pick up Xfrog and have a go at modeling and UV mapping my own, I suppose. There is a shareware modeller for small plants out there by Kurtz-Feingold at http://www3.mistral.co.uk/nigelpickering/ but the models generated with it don't take textures at all and every time I run them through UV mapper I get something wierder than snake shoes. 3d cafe has a package called "The Botanical" that looks pretty good but before I shell out the $150 to pick it up I'd like to talk to someone else who got it. There has GOT to be stuff out there for AutoCAD in DXF format for the landscape architects to use but I've had no joy so far finding stand-alone products with good plants in DXF format.