Some Stuff (Shrubbery Thread)

mschack

Was working on some forest backgrounds to help rendering time and thought I would share.

There are four 2048x2048 hi quality 'tree stand' pngs with alpha, good for splats or billboards filling in forest backgrounds, distant trees etc

Feel free to post your own stuff here that you would like to share..

mschack

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#3

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#4

Dartanbeck

Very nice!

...and I just checked out your SI test. Looks awesome - and Fun!!!

mschack

Thanks Dartanbeck!

Were some of my attachments removed in #2 and #3? Too large maybe?

mschack

Works quite well and renders very quickly.  At these settings even 10-20 detailed trees would take hours to render.  This took 4 minutes with the bulk of the time spent rendering the water.

Now I need more foreground element, grass, shrubberies!

mschack

 

 

mschack

a couple single trees...

Dartanbeck

mschack said:

Thanks Dartanbeck!

Were some of my attachments removed in #2 and #3? Too large maybe?

Hmmm... a zip version, perhaps?

Dartanbeck

This is really cool of you to do! And I love the Monty Python reference! ;)

Dartanbeck

Oh no. Now the first one is missing too!

Stezza

awesome @mschack

can never have too much shrubbery 

great for filling in those backgrounds 

Diomede

Thank you, mschack.  Your generosity is appreciated.  Impressive lake render for 4 minutes!

mschack

Trying to make a landscapy vista that goes on into the distance.

Converted the terrain to vertex and painted on some of the terrain shaders by hand.  I loved this process though it can be a little fiddly...  Adding bump also really adds to it,

This renders in about 30 seconds.

ed3D

~  looking cool

mschack

Thanks!

Stezza

mschack said:

Trying to make a landscapy vista that goes on into the distance.

Converted the terrain to vertex and painted on some of the terrain shaders by hand.  I loved this process though it can be a little fiddly...  Adding bump also really adds to it,

This renders in about 30 seconds.

30 seconds ... like it 

mschack

More stuff

A low poly morphable building, good for background cities.  Note this was modelled in large scene mode so it will be very large coming into medium scenes...

mschack

And another

Dartanbeck

I love the new landscape render example. Looks fantastic! 

Oh my!!! Check out those cool buildings!!! Dartan's gonna have fun with these!!!

 

Thank you So Much for sharing all of this!!!

Reminds me of the old, old forum, when Sub7th had cities of buildings in the freebie section - wow I was brand new back then!

mschack

Thanks.  Today I thought, hey why not use morph targets on buildings, something else to explore...

Bunyip02

Thanks for the freebies !!!

Dartanbeck

mschack said:

Thanks.  Today I thought, hey why not use morph targets on buildings, something else to explore...

Immense fun! 

After that, if you really want to sample what your imagination can do, add a skeleton rig to them!!!

I made some pretty cool Sci Fi control panels and rigged them so that I can easily shape, fit, and rotate portions of them to fit anywhere I'd need them to be. Although I never finished the project, those panels were a blast to play with. I thought it was incredible how far I could change the original shape without making them look funky.

The thing was, I didn't have any limits or constraints applied - but I was going to. Without any limits, I could grab any one bone in the hierarchy and scale, rotate and/or translate it - so it was really fun to see all of the variations that the rigging allowed for!

 

Cheers mschack, and keep having fun!!! 

mschack

Thats an interesting idea!  

Mistara

i like shrubbery.

and trees like in zoo tycoon

and nacho stands

Headwax

mschack said:

Trying to make a landscapy vista that goes on into the distance.

Converted the terrain to vertex and painted on some of the terrain shaders by hand.  I loved this process though it can be a little fiddly...  Adding bump also really adds to it,

This renders in about 30 seconds.

really looking tom terrific :)

Jonstark

mschack said:

Trying to make a landscapy vista that goes on into the distance.

Converted the terrain to vertex and painted on some of the terrain shaders by hand.  I loved this process though it can be a little fiddly...  Adding bump also really adds to it,

This renders in about 30 seconds.

Gorgeous, and proves the point that this is an excellent technique.  I had the same idea a while back and was working on making my own 'billboards' of various trees.  I can't tell any difference visually, but it makes a huge difference in render time, as your render proves.  Really useful idea, thanks mschack! 

mschack

Thanks!  It is very useful to fill in distant trees, even creating a small library of such things is very useful.  I have also started making random people alphas haha.

mschack

(More Stuff) Makehuman hair cap (hair? shrubberies, kinda related...)

For any makehuman users I made a haircap that can be added to any character within MH and exported to Carrara and used with Carrara hair.  This conforms to any character.

Step #1 -unzip the attached full_haircap.zip file in the MH user data/hair folder;

Step #2-The full_haircap asset should now show up in MH Geometries/Hair area, add it to your character.

Step #3-Export your character. (I usually export as .fbx as it includes bones.)

Step #4-Import into Carrara and then add a hair primitive.  Make the hair primitive a child of the full_haircapMesh.  Also select the full_haircapMesh and make it not visible in the render.

Step #5-Edit hair (see Jonstarks wondeful tutorials on hair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC1AV-hcsC4), If you don't want the beard etc. then just deselect any polys on the haircap you don't want to use in the Carrara hair editor.  Enjoy...

mschack

Imagine if I actually out effort into it lol... Ain't he nice...

and could'nt resist my fav GMIC filter...