Best place to buy high quality plants (Trees, bushes, grass etc)

Started by reck, April 19, 2016, 05:02:54 PM

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reck

Hey guys where's a good place to buy plant objects for use in Terragen nowadays? I'm looking for high quality objects, would be nice if offered in tgo format but obj will do if not.

Is Xfrog still the only real option?

Edit: I've download objects from the file sharing section on this forum and downloaded from NWDA but looking for more choice and higher quality.

Thanks

yossam


reck

Thanks.

Looks like they have some nice looking bushes and grass but they only have 9 trees. Do you know anywhere that has a greater choice of objects?

yossam

There are model trees at every 3d site of varying quality. DAZ, Renderosity, Xfrog. Try some of the arch vis sites............they are mainly gonna be landscape models. Search the internet..........................my answer. Or buy Speedtree.  :)

bobbystahr

these are a bit expensive but high quality.

http://www.evermotion.org/shop/cat/384/Greenery_&_Plants

although Speed Tree might be a long term better use of your cash.

they have free samples on the site some where as well.
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Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist

Dune

The evermotion trees look very good and they have free samples, for evaluating purposes.

reck

Do you guys just build your own trees now using this speedtree software then? Buying quality objects can soon start costing a lot of money so in the long run I can see how you could save money using something like speedtree.

What do you do about textures though? Presumably speedtree allows you to model the object but what do you do about creating the texture for the correct type of wood, leaves etc?

Dune

If you need more than a hundred trees, Speedtree will soon be cheaper indeed. There are a lot of textures to be found on the web, and you can make your own. Or use the textures that go with XFrog if you have them. Speedtree also has the possibility to make custom leaf-objects in another app like Lightwave, say a set of UV-mapped planes or even apples, that you can add as leaves in the tree.

paq

Vizpark have a couple of nice bundle collection :

http://www.vizpark.com/shop/real-trees/
http://www.vizpark.com/shop/real-grass/

Those one are made with GrowFX (3dsmax plugin), the only tree/plants generator that allows you to sell your models.
Growfx is a really neat generator too !

The groove (Blender commercial addon)
https://www.thegrove3d.com/

This one is more a growth tree simulator ... Leaves and twigs need to be modeled by hand (TheGroove will take care of the scattering).
Gameloft

reck

Thanks for the links guys, i've added them to my favourites so I can peruse them later.

The Evermotion motion trees do look very nice but where are the free samples, I want to see what they look like in TG?

I came across this plant and leaf texture site which maybe useful to those with speedtree. - http://www.anniemation.com/textures/flowers.html



bobbystahr

Quote from: reck on April 20, 2016, 03:32:55 PM
Thanks for the links guys, i've added them to my favourites so I can peruse them later.

The Evermotion motion trees do look very nice but where are the free samples, I want to see what they look like in TG?

I came across this plant and leaf texture site which maybe useful to those with speedtree. - http://www.anniemation.com/textures/flowers.html


Some free ones here in .obj and some .max

http://trzyde.blogspot.ca/p/freebies_5.html
something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist

bobbystahr

Quote from: reck on April 20, 2016, 03:32:55 PM
Thanks for the links guys, i've added them to my favourites so I can peruse them later.

The Evermotion motion trees do look very nice but where are the free samples, I want to see what they look like in TG?

I came across this plant and leaf texture site which maybe useful to those with speedtree. - http://www.anniemation.com/textures/flowers.html





that's an over all great texture site, thanks for the link.
something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist

Dune

If you click on a tree there will be a new window and on the right it says free sample, where the list of specifics is. I don't know if it is that particular tree, as I tried a few, but they had the same name. They are heavy, one was more than a gig! Didn't check them out yet.

reck

Quote from: Dune on April 21, 2016, 02:44:01 AM
If you click on a tree there will be a new window and on the right it says free sample, where the list of specifics is. I don't know if it is that particular tree, as I tried a few, but they had the same name. They are heavy, one was more than a gig! Didn't check them out yet.

Got it, cheers. I'll try out......if my machine can handle it  ;D

reck

Just tried out one of the Evermotion trees which is 3.3GB once extracted. The obj file itself is around 500MB

Despite the huge file size it's not looking too good in Terragen. The branches are blocky where you can clearly see straight lines and there's also a chequered pattern effect with the shadows.

Is this a Terragen bug, a setting i've not set correctly or just not a very good model?

Edit: Make sure you view the image at 100%


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