Forum: Carrara

Subject: Pine Needles

Kixum opened this issue on Dec 15, 2001 · 4 posts

Kixum posted Sat, 15 December 2001 at 5:54 PM

Ok folks, I've seen lots of different people make pine trees with really nice looking needles (as an example, the winner for the Christmas card contest). How can we do this in Carrara easy and make it look good? -Kix

-Kix

MarkBremmer posted Sat, 15 December 2001 at 8:15 PM

Hi Kixum, Not complete realism, but then again, it only took about 3 minutes to put together with Tree Druid for Carrara. (http://www.zenstar.com/) Tree Druid does house plants (some) coniferous, palm and deciduous trees; about 50 in total. Super easy to texture in Carrara. You can adjust the trees for gravity, the sun, the wind and wind direction plus change to the seasons for growth and fullness. They can even drop leaves on the ground in fall. Pretty cool stuff. Mark www.MarkBremmer.com

grafikdon posted Sun, 16 December 2001 at 12:27 AM

Hey Mark,what did you use to create the sand?Infinite plane?

MarkBremmer posted Sun, 16 December 2001 at 3:43 PM

Yep, just a procedural texture on an infinate plane.