For those who love little trees!

[ivan louette]

Just playing with Lightwave, creating and exporting in .png seven different rotations of the same tree.
The brush and the original images are in the .xar file (so you can recreate another brush and reorient the shadows to your taste).

Enjoy,

ivan

[ivan louette]

Just playing with Lightwave, creating and exporting in .png seven different rotations of the same tree.
The brush and the original images are in the .xar file (so you can recreate another brush and reorient the shadows to your taste).

Enjoy,

ivan

[ivan louette]

Here is the .xar file.

Alittle bit heavy because of the original images, but the brush is very smooth and light to use.

ivan

[Big Frank]

Now we can do tree-lined boulevards in one easy step (well, two, if you do both sides of the boulevard! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )

Hey, Egg, this brush'd be great for your historical elavations and, Ross, you can now stick trees in your architecural drawings with ease!

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Big Frank was
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[This message was edited by Big Frank on March 17, 2001 at 12:05 PM.]

[ivan louette]

At 640 by 480 and using different kind of transparencies and colorizing in XaraX.
A kind of image very close to the vector characteristics of XaraX and which should integrate very well in illustrations.

But of course no need to work with expensive 3D packages. Bryce, Vue d'Esprit or other programs create nice images with alphas!

Regards,

ivan

[ivan louette]

My attachment didn't upload at first time!

[ivan louette]

Or leaves created with XaraX brushes.

Here the green brush above right was mapped on the 3D object I want to use as a leave and then its shadow exported separately as another image was mapped as a mask transparency. The blurred look of the brush and its shadow give the feathered look of the leaves.
The initial object was spread on the branchs (500 items) with a fantastic plugin for Lightwave called "Leaves Generator", recently created by a Polish programmer.
No antialiasing was applied inside Lightwave (the rendered image is 800 x 600) and only XaraX antialiasing give the smooth final result!

Yes, XaraX could be extremely helpful to create nice 3D textures and to quickly render smooth images as a postprocessing utility!

Enjoy,

iva

[ivan louette]

Here with the same brush used as a bump map too and with specularity added.

ivan

[JZiehlke]

Ivan,

That was a wonderful idea for Xara brush uses. I will have to play with this idea in Lightwave myself. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Thanks,
Joan

[ivan louette]

Joan, if you are interested by the plugin "Leaves Generator" send a message to its polish programmer Pawel Olas:

polas@olimp.com.pl

And here I have played to create old Rhodos and put them in a brush.

The inflorescences and the leaves are separated objects created with PlantStudio (which now exports nicely to .lwo format !!!), and I have used Leaves Generator again to spread them on the branches of a little tree created with the plugin Tree Druid.
I have given 20 % luminosity to the flowers!

Enjoy,

iva