wessexarch opened this issue on Dec 22, 2004 ยท 11 posts
wessexarch posted Wed, 22 December 2004 at 3:33 AM
A quick request for some sagely advice from Vue users at Renderosity... I am looking at producing a reconstruction of a large landscape which is potentially heavily forested. I would like to use Vue for the task, but am also considering 3ds MAX with SpeedTree. How well does Vue handle huge numbers of trees? I have done some smaller models with, say, 50 trees, which were imported .obj files from XFrog, which were about 125K polys each. It virtually brought Vue to its knees, but gave impressive results. The trees needed to be quite detailed as the animation moved past most of them. Are trees created in Vue 4 Pro's plant generator much more efficient? Is there a way of making billboarded trees turn to face the camera (one of the attractions of SpeedTree)? Any advice would be warmly received :-)