alternative to onyx treestorm?

phudge · June 26th, 2008

okay basically iv been using onyx treestorm for a few years with max 8 and 9 32 bit with minimal problems now iv moved to max 2008 64 bit and i get unusably large ammounts of lag with wind on the trees and endless crashing, reading the forums here iv come to the conclusion that the problem lies in 64 bit.

so i was wondering if anybody know of any viable alternatives for moving trees (wind) iv played with xfrog but wasnt overly impressed.

iv just took a look at grow fx which looks cool but does anybody know if you can animate (add wind) to the trees? how stable is it?

any other options please let me know.
but when i say wind it doesnt actually have to be a physically correct wind or anything just somthing to subtly move the leaves and branches about.

Cheers

WAcky · June 26th, 2008

Can you try saving some 2d flats out of the tree creator programs with some wind applied? This is 100% sure to fix your crashing and the trees still look really good. Could be your best compromise...unless its for an animation. In which case i'd look at either the mental ray proxies or the proxies with vray. The new versions can do animated proxies (I THINK)

quizzy · July 10th, 2008

you can add wind to grow-FX and that is quite simple to add as well... and very controlable.. Basically what you do is add a noise controller to a vector direction..
www.exlevel.com has tutorial video's on their site how to add wind..

floraworks · September 11th, 2008

what about dpit nature spirit 4 doesn't that have a wind plugin? i forgot i haven't used it in ages

zerofractal · 4 Weeks Ago

Doesn't bionatics have wind in one of their tree products for max?

Dave Buchhofer · 4 Weeks Ago

they do, its just difficult to get a "full" looking tree with bionatics

June 26th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
phudge Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bristol Posts: 1 Name: Jamie Densley	alternative to onyx treestorm? okay basically iv been using onyx treestorm for a few years with max 8 and 9 32 bit with minimal problems now iv moved to max 2008 64 bit and i get unusably large ammounts of lag with wind on the trees and endless crashing, reading the forums here iv come to the conclusion that the problem lies in 64 bit. so i was wondering if anybody know of any viable alternatives for moving trees (wind) iv played with xfrog but wasnt overly impressed. iv just took a look at grow fx which looks cool but does anybody know if you can animate (add wind) to the trees? how stable is it? any other options please let me know. but when i say wind it doesnt actually have to be a physically correct wind or anything just somthing to subtly move the leaves and branches about. Cheers

June 26th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
WAcky Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 376 Name: James Burrell	Re: alternative to onyx treestorm? Can you try saving some 2d flats out of the tree creator programs with some wind applied? This is 100% sure to fix your crashing and the trees still look really good. Could be your best compromise...unless its for an animation. In which case i'd look at either the mental ray proxies or the proxies with vray. The new versions can do animated proxies (I THINK) __________________ James Burrell Pixel Constructions

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quizzy Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Age: 35 Posts: 1,576 Name: Michiel Quist	Re: alternative to onyx treestorm? you can add wind to grow-FX and that is quite simple to add as well... and very controlable.. Basically what you do is add a noise controller to a vector direction.. www.exlevel.com has tutorial video's on their site how to add wind.. __________________ Michiel Quist http://www.3idee.nl

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floraworks Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Timaru Posts: 16 Name: Javk Marsh	Re: alternative to onyx treestorm? what about dpit nature spirit 4 doesn't that have a wind plugin? i forgot i haven't used it in ages

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zerofractal Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bogota Posts: 11 Name: Alejando Gonzalez $Send a message via MSN to zerofractal$ $Send a message via Skype™ to zerofractal$	Re: alternative to onyx treestorm? Doesn't bionatics have wind in one of their tree products for max? __________________ Alejandro González alejandro.gonzalez@zerofractal.com Zerofractal - Visual Communications New Website! www.zerofractal.com
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Dave Buchhofer Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 280 Name: Dave Buchhofer	Re: alternative to onyx treestorm? they do, its just difficult to get a "full" looking tree with bionatics __________________ Dave. TD / EwingCole DMG

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