Ok i incorporated some of what you said teaandcigarettes. I havn't gotten to the rest. I might work on something else and come back do this cause i'm getting a little burned out on it. And leaving it for a while and coming back to it with a new perspective would probably be a good thing.







@dudealan2001 Thanks!

@luke yeah it is. I am thinking of having a whole environment so i could move the camera around anywhere. So definitively closer shots.

I don't think I've ever said this before, but I would like to sekks that tree.

@verybad haha, thanks for the compliment.

I was able to mess around with some grass.
Went for the gratuitous amount of grass placement, just for fun.

Originally Posted by jackalope

stunning.

Beautiful work sir!!!

awesome work! vast improvement from the first tree

/Edit - i want to run in that grass! :P

I was skimming through this quite quickly and really thought that was a photograph. Nice trees lol

I got to say, this is really coming together! Any more work on the buildings and what not? Keep it up! I like!

Loving it, the grass looks really believable, have you enabled any AntiAliasing yet? Trees in the distance look a little jaggy.

started blocking in the main tree in zbrush

Teaandcigs has shown you the brach distirbution as an image, but I think you should check out the Fibonacci sequence if you havn't already.
You can check there how many branches you need and how they grow and all.
Hope it helps.

Mike

@marq4porsche Thank you sir.
@pinkbox Thanks, improvement is all due to contribution from polycount. You guys are great.
@Artist_in_a_box I guess i am getting somewhere then. thanks for the comment.
@sltrOlsson Haven't worked on the buildings anymore yet. Just started on the main tree as evidenced by my last post. Buildings will probably be next.
@Paunescu.Daniel I haven't played with AA yet. I will probably do it when i am in the post process stage

Been a little while trying to figure this zbrush thing out.
Currently working on the dead looking outer shell of the big main tree.

Well I just got laid off...
Maybe it will give me the chance to finish this project...
If I can find a computer to work on.

Damn that really sucks Jackalope. You'll bounce back man, people will be knocking down your door to hire you I'm sure!

Thats to bad, hope you find a new job Good Luck! But I would like to see this project finished it looks nice so far. Though something doesnt look right with the tree, cant really place my finger on it.

Please keep working on this! That grass is really beautiful.

Keep your chin up mate, turn this into a stellar portfolio piece. You have a solid head start.

Very nice pine branch you got there!
Care to tell how you did this ? Splines, or branch tool in 3ds max ?
And Needles, are they just planes, or cylinder, with gradien map ? Or you got yourself needles texture somewhere ?

well i have been busy moving out of my apartment, and trying to find another job.
sorry about the late reply iniside, I dont know if you will actually see my answer but might as well.
I've been working in Maya, so I dont know the parallel with max but for the actual branches i just made some cylinders and manipulated them. i duplicated them around and changed them up until i had some results i was happy with.
Since it just gets baked down into a texture it didnt matter if it was just geo behind other geo. nothing really had to be welded together or anything.
For the needles I used the 3D paint effects tool, it just lets you paint down shapes. So i worked up the shape of needle i wanted and painted it on the branch. You can also change the texture of them, which was useful for creating some gradient maps.
Then i baked out a normal map, gradient maps, color. and just comped them in photoshop.

Anyway, been busy with other things, but wanted to keep up with 3D (im kinda limited until my new computer arrives next week)
so ive been playing around with this:


realtime Maya viewport.

Got a new computer so I can actually work on things now.

put some of the props ive been working on together.