http://web.inf.tu-dresden.de/ST2/cg/downloads/publicplants/
I've tried loading these into poseray and saving them out again which does allow them to be loaded into Terragen but they come in with no colour, textures or anything. Has anyone converted these into usable obj files or even better saved them out as tgo with all the materials working that they can share for the benefit of others? I think I read a post about these sometime ago but it involved downloading some other software and it wasn't just a matter of loading and saving there was a lot of messing around.
It would be great if there was some kind of object repository (like a thread in the file sharing forum) where people can upload objects that have been made or found free on the Internet that we can all use, all in one place. Ideally these would have been converted into tgo and be ready to load into Terragen with all the textures working.
Check the file formats of the textures. I'm using the blue spruce at the moment and from memory it's textures were PNG. Convert them to TIFF and then edit the TG object to the new textures.
Here's my model if you want to look at the internal node network.
http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~bernardk/tgdemo/blue_spruce.zip (http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~bernardk/tgdemo/blue_spruce.zip) (1.5Mb, with adjusted textures)
Frankly, the Xfrog public plants aren't really worth the effort to get looking good. I, some people on this forum, and a couple other alpha testers have fooled with them, and it takes way too much manual and time-consuming labor to get them looking their best (which isn't actually all that great).
I'll have to agree that many of the textures I've looked at really suck to the point of being unusable... particularly the bark textures. It is a bit of work, but if you've got nothing else at least you have some different shapes to add to the mix.
BigBen can you give us a short explanation how you modified the XFrog plants to tgo?
Quote from: old_blaggard on March 08, 2007, 07:03:25 PM
Frankly, the Xfrog public plants aren't really worth the effort to get looking good. I, some people on this forum, and a couple other alpha testers have fooled with them, and it takes way too much manual and time-consuming labor to get them looking their best (which isn't actually all that great).
But the other free ones that xfrog released in the tgo format seem to be of a high quality (I think). So are the obj ones quality not as good quality as the tgo ones, or am I just easily pleased?
Bigben i'll take a look a look at your blue spruce, thanks for the upload.
The .tgo files included with the Tech Release are made with a newer version of XFrog, and thus are of much higher quality.