Madail
07-03-2003, 04:12 PM
Hello everyone.
I tried to search for this, no luck at all, so i just have to ask.
everyone knows that trees and plants mapped into planes or by using any plugs like RPC and alike only work nicely below 45º more or less...
Well, there are alot of situations that need to be rendered from a birds view perspective.There are several tree plugins that have actual models, and only become high res in render, but they're not like the real thing, like photos.
Another issue is animation. We can make renders from above and the make a compositing in ps, but with animation this is pratically impossible.
So, if anyone knows any tips, or workaround, please post them.
I heard of some billboarding techniques, the simple 2 planes, BUT with another (or more) plane, horizontal with a texture of the leaves only. Maybe making some variations of this, and place the planes to make a spherical form, might work. What do you think?
I tried to search for this, no luck at all, so i just have to ask.
everyone knows that trees and plants mapped into planes or by using any plugs like RPC and alike only work nicely below 45º more or less...
Well, there are alot of situations that need to be rendered from a birds view perspective.There are several tree plugins that have actual models, and only become high res in render, but they're not like the real thing, like photos.
Another issue is animation. We can make renders from above and the make a compositing in ps, but with animation this is pratically impossible.
So, if anyone knows any tips, or workaround, please post them.
I heard of some billboarding techniques, the simple 2 planes, BUT with another (or more) plane, horizontal with a texture of the leaves only. Maybe making some variations of this, and place the planes to make a spherical form, might work. What do you think?