Make Your Own Trees To use with Maratis

We need to find away to decimate these to lower the poly count, the Christmas Tree is 332,336 polys.

Actually I have a better idea, over time we can "Render a Branch with Leafs" remove all sub-branches and replace them with the rendered version. That will give us a nice looking lowpoly tree.

This app has a lot of features that I haven't messed with yet, I will see what it can do. I was thinking about just exporting a branch. Branches are hard to create anyhow. Then export a batch of leaves. Decimate them separately Then assemble them however. Even that seems too much though. We will see.

Yup, that will do it!

I just will export clusters of branches. They can be decimated down to .2 comfortably and then you can just duplicate and rotate. Or you can use Blender's particle system. 1 Branch came down to 52 faces

Last edited by Tutorial Doctor (2013-10-25 01:55:38)

Hey! I found a software for PC that make trees and exports them as 3d files. I am testing it right now:
Tree[d]
http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about

Edit: IT'S GREAT! You can use your own textures! Blender doesn't handle the textures off the bat for OBJ files. I will keep testing it.

Last edited by Tutorial Doctor (2013-10-25 02:40:50)

Try this ...

Create a Plane, in "Edit Mode" use the "Vertex Select" tool and "Delete 3 Vertices" so you have only one left. Extrude your vertice on the Z axes. You should now have a "Line/Edge". Select your Edge and add a "Skin Modifier". Now you can model your tree with Lines/Edges and the "Skin Modifier" will generate the actual geometry. Once your done goto "Object Mode" and apply the "Skin Modifier" then use the "Decimate Modifier" | "Collapse" to lower the polycount.

Note: I had to scale my tree in edit mode to slim the trunk/branches down.

My Tree was 3000+ poly after decimating its 373 poly.

You could just model the tree, but I find this easier and faster.

Last edited by zester (2013-10-25 15:45:56)