01-30-2017, 07:08 PM
Thanks for that <a contenteditable="false" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/4-shockpuppet/&do=hovercard" data-mentionid="4" href="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/4-shockpuppet/">@ShockPuppet</a>. You know, I got the deciduous trees to work well, even simpler I just make a copy of the fig fbx, added my own texture, then just scaled the tree and moved leaves around. Seems more do-able for a simpleton like me you see rather than make it from scratch.
That being said, I've tried to make some conifers, but they are seemingly a bit trickier as I need to make them from scratch without any pine reference files. I have a couple more questions if you don't mind.
1) Texturing conifers - what does the map look like for them? Is it the same lay out as the fig? I've made it so that one half is bark for the trunk, and the other half is for the branches with needles. I made the model of a simple trunk, then added cones of 8 faces (I think, maybe 12) a few times down it which were applied to the needle and branch side. One of the problems is it looks bad in game. Well, the fir doesn't look so bad, but the others do as the texture on the leaves/branches is very blurry. I think I am trying to add too much detail into such a small space and it just comes up a distorted mess. Can you use multi materials with trees or is this too much video resource power?
2) How many polys is acceptable for a tree that will be spawned by foresters?
3) How do you make pines sway? I assume this is UV channel 3. When I add the third channel, the tree sways nicely, but the texture of the leaves gets distorted (although, I did realize I was using the billboard code and the pine has a different foliage code, so that might be why).
4) Following on from 1, any good tree texture resources out there? I'm struggling finding anything decent through google images, sketchup texture club, textures.com, or deviant art (but that is probably because there are so so many hits for 'pine branch' and none are of pine branches).
