I'm trying to find or fabricate a realistic snow-covered spruce tree for use in Bryce 5.  I have tried the tree lab with only marginally acceptable results.  I have made attempts in Wings3d and Sculptris with completely unacceptable results.

Any suggestions as to an app that is appropriate for this sort of thing, a freebie model out there, or a technique that might be applicable to either Bryce, Wings or Sculptris?

Assistance would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks.

 

Mike (gmvgmvgmv)

Try sharecg. I think that's where the tree in this image came from.  It came with an obj file which Wings will open & one for Vue.

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Well, I didn't find it there, but holy cow, what a motherlode of 3d models.  Great site!  Thanks for the input!!

 

Mike

Attached Link: http://www.sharecg.com/v/22657/View/5/3D-Model/Snowy-Pine

I found it.. I forgot to tell you to search for pine tree. 

Going to sharecg is a little like Christmas morning.  You never know what kind of goodies you're going to find.. I always end up downloading stuff I didn't go there to find.. 

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Well, I found the file, downloaded it, unzipped it, and was staring at an obj file in excess of 200megs!  Sadly, my pathetic XP computer will not be able to handle such a gargantuan file.  I guess the search will have to continue. 

Still could use some suggestions if anyone cares to assist.

 

Mike

Suggestion #1 - Buy some:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/flinks-conifer/90317

http://www.runtimedna.com/RDNA-Old-Wood-Vol-4-Snowy-Pines.html

Suggestion #2:  Find a lower poly tree such as the one at Planit3D or a Bryce preset (hold down ALT key then select tree icon).  Duplicate the needles of the tree, move them up slightly and give them a white snowy texture.  (I've done this.  Looks sort of more like heavy frost than snow...)

Suggestion #3:  Take a tree mesh into Wings3D, Hexagon, or other modeling software, duplicate the foliage, move it up a little, and enlarge it into a blobby shape to make snow.

That's about all I can think of!

I used a pine tree I downloaded for this pic

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/contest/index.php?entry_id=32810

It comes in at 5.2mb, if you want me to send you a zip file, message me.

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

You could try metaballs.  :)

http://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=b041dc8c

just found this whilst browsing.

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

Good One!!  Lots & lots of other useful stuff there too. 

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Although I may be too late, you could try this trick, I did it once once on my Winter Cemetery pic.

 

Make two copies of the tree in question, give one a snow texture, shrink it's dimensions by 1% or so and raise it up out of the other tree so it's just peeking out of the top.  It makes the needles look frosted (or get rid of the leaves and just do it on the branches if you can) to make the branches look coated in a little snow.

Just a thought

I've done something similar to make flowering bushes but never even thought to try it for snow. 

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AS long as its not for detail in the foreground you can get the 2D trees rather inexpensively. And for hills or mtns in the background just spike em up real good and add a texture.