Hi,

I found no information about adding new subsets to a plant  in the plant editor.

The overall principle is to manipulate a existing plant , i.e. the plum tree. But there you can't add subsets to define better roots - or is there a way?

So in my eyes a complete new plant is impossible for the user, as it seems that only e-on can deliver a new plant base to play with.  Am I wrong or can someone give me a advice?

To be clear: I''m not looking for tutorials how to change a leaf texture or so ... ;-)

Thank you !

Volker

In short: no, no adding subset possible.

Thank you.  Hmmmm, that's indeed really bad :-( .

The higher definition trees have more subsets - if you have any ot those, try editing them instead. 

Thank you Gill !

That is what I do at the moment, but I'm not really happy with it ...   on the one side there is the huge polygon count which is not necessary for trees far away (which results in backdrops or alpha planes as workaround) on the other side it's not flexible enough (for me ). But as far as I see the plant editor in Infinite or xStream is the same as in Complete; so a update won't work for this.

if you want to make your own trees, look at xfrogs, its real good, and cheaper than upgrading to xstream :P

Thank you too !  XFrog is on my HD, so that's not the problem itself - a xfrog tree  can't be randomized by VUE, it's always a static object. Mhm ....  perhaps I should try this for a low poly variant with randomizing in XFrog.

Sold Growth plants have always been this way.  Subsets for each plant have always been added by the software creator - that part has never been editable and I doubt it ever will be :sad:

As for Xfrog or Onyx plants, all you need to do is make a couple of variants of the same plant then rotate and resize for variations

Agree with Gill.
I rarely use the SolidGrowth ones, and certainly not for close ups or semi-closeups, maybe for some variety in the background.

Now, this thread with the free XFrog models seems to be forgotten:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3635149

Keeping in mind what Gill wrote about adding variety, don't hesitate to use these hi-rez models in ecosystems. I have a feeling that people think they will bring Vue to the knees. In my experience they won't.
Also think of the option to add a little colour variation in the ecosystems settings.

Lars "bigbraader"

Thank you for providing these informations and this link!

In case of hi-res models:  I only have a old machine ( single core 2 Mhz with 2 GB RAM) so it's very easy to bring VUE 8 to the knees

I hope that I soon can show what I've done ...

Thanks again!

Post a link here when you do