Making Gmax Trees...

[kelticheart]

Have you seen this site chaps?

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtm...lv1&media_type=

That link takes you to trees in general, but you can type in the specific type of tree you want.

Kevin

Nice, Kevin!

Unfortunately, all of the single tree profiles have superimposed lettering over them, the usual anti-web-theft measure. Too bad, because they are truly splendid.

Some of them in the multiple profiles do not, but I don't know if their size will suit Blood_Hawk23's editing needs. It's up to him.

Did you see the Vietnamese website I found? I posted the link above. Next time I went back to it, I was able to get Google translator work for me, that's how I discovered where it comes from. There we need a tree expert to identify them, but the profiles posted are just as beautiful and free from anything that prevents them from copying and pasting somewhere else.

Thanks for your help, anyway!

Cheers!
Stefano

[Blood_Hawk23]

there is a site that will help with Tree ID but there are 60 trees to go through. someone else will have to do it.

Yeah Kelti your right about the other site. they look great but not useable. the small ones loose too much detail.

[Blood_Hawk23]

I just noticed it. LOL

So I was doing a fly by and I noticed an issue. It seems my alpha channels are creating some problems. on a few of my trees they are too big. So I have a dilemma. Do I model them to the hight or do I crop the image. In a group it will make a difference.

here is a pic of the Chestnut...



Don't look too close at the trunk. It didn't have a base so I made one.

I'm doing the Black Poplar next. So thats where I'm at.

[Rami]

Blood_Hawk23,

You're really doing some outstanding work here. Keep it up, let me know if I can do anything to help!

[Blood_Hawk23]

Kelti,

Here is one for you. Tell me what you think.

Attachment 14391

[kelticheart]

Kelti,

Here is one for you. Tell me what you think.

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Hi John,

I am getting an error message from SOH following the link you posted, so I am sorry, but I didn't get the chance to see it.

The chestnut looks wonderful. Since you made up the trunk, get rid of those vertical dark lines, chestnut tree bark is very smooth. Other than that, it's absolutely perfect.

Do you think it'll be possible to talk AI opponents into letting one admire the splendid job you did on the trees without shooting his rear end off?

Cheers!
KH

[Blood_Hawk23]

No problem lets try again.



There, lets hope it worked.

I'll see if we can call a 24 hour ceasefire. Wait... you're going to be raking the mud when you plant them. I think you'll be sick of them by the time you start flying around them.

[kelticheart]

No problem lets try again....There, lets hope it worked....

!!!!!

A masterpiece, John!

Cheers!
KH

[Blood_Hawk23]

I've started work on my trees again. I'm taking a break from the Italian bombs. The parachute issue has given me a headache.

So while working on that I figured I would try to finish some of these. I've managed to make them destroyable. Actually they just disapear. Either way it works.

I'll get some pics after I've finished some.

[Blood_Hawk23]

Some shots of the Chestnut trees. Three sizes; 5m, 20m, and 35m.

More to come...

[Blood_Hawk23]

Here are the Beech trees. 5m, 25m, and 50m.

[UncleTgt]

Nice work, really look the part.

[Blood_Hawk23]

Here are the small birch. 5m and 10M.

[Blood_Hawk23]

Some cultivated Black Poplar. 5m, 15m, 25M.

[Blood_Hawk23]

I only have 7 textures left.

Ash- 5m,15m
Small Pine- 2.5m, 5m
Medium Pine- 5m, 10m, 20m
Large Pine- 10m, 20m, 35m
Walnut- 10m, 20m
Medium Oak- 10m, 20m
Large Oak- 15m, 25m, 40m

That will give 17 more trees for 28 total. Its not a lot but its a start. I've run out of images that are good enough to work with. If I can get more then I'll add them to the list.

[kelticheart]

YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YEAH!!!!

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE TREES, FINALLY!

THANK YOU!!!
KH


Any projected release date yet?

[Blood_Hawk23]

Hey Kelti,

Welcome back. How was your Vacation?

I've been a little busy lately. Trying to finish them up.

[mvg3d]

Hi Stefano,
Welcome back !!!!
How much Pinas Coladas (or similar) ?

[kelticheart]

Hi Stefano,
Welcome back !!!!
How much Pinas Coladas (or similar) ?

Hi John and Manuele!

Vacation splendid, thank you. Weather was a little unpredictable, just like anywhere else in the Caribbean this time of the year, but overall marvellous.

The only serious problems was due to very large beach areas covered with overgrown kelp (Italian: sargassi) washed ashore by the sea. The Club Med info people told us this phenomena was shared by the entire Caribbean area, starting from Venezuelan shores all the way up to the Virgin Islands, Haiti/Dominican Republic, Puertorico and Cuba.

Apparently it's a consequence of global temperature increase. Only Eastern oriented shores, the ones facing the Atlantic Ocean, were involved and the shorelines looked quite bad in those areas. Shores facing the Caribbean Sea were beautiful and clean as usual.

The real discomfort is caused by the foetid smell given off by rotting kelp, still afloat and trapped by the waves against beaches or washed ashore. Entire bays in Southern Guadeloupe were covered by it, and some was present on Saint Anne shore, where we were staying. One morning we were woken up by the noise of a light bulldozer on wheels, loading kelp from the beach onto a construction truck.

But nothing that a good cocktail made with local, high quality "agricole" rum could not cure.....we averaged four to five Moijotos, Pina Coladas, Planteur Punches and Daiquiris a day........

Too bas it's over.....

Cheers!
KH

[Blood_Hawk23]

Kelti,

Check your email. I've sent you the first half.

[kelticheart]

Kelti,

Check your email. I've sent you the first half.

GOT 'EM!!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Cheers!
KH

[Blood_Hawk23]

GOT 'EM!!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Cheers!
KH

Let me know what you think. I have the other half left to do. I'm then going to look into the Gerrish set. maybe between them we can create some forests.

[kelticheart]

Let me know what you think. I have the other half left to do. I'm then going to look into the Gerrish set. maybe between them we can create some forests.

Hi John,

I did my homework during the weekend. I shot some pictures of my tests, I'll post them in three different replies to help clarity.

You sent to me four tree models: Beech, Black Poplar, Chestnut and Maple. I used my work on Gary Burn's BoB Hawkinge as a test site for them, where I had placed a mixture of Wolfi's hardwood forest patches, Lindsay Watts' earliest generic broadleafs and Martin Wright's British Tree library.

The below shots show the Large Beech and Large Chestnut placed among the above trees and near Wolfi's ETO buildings. They seem to me a little too oversized, the difference with the others is big and they could not be mixed with them, particularly with Martin Wright's trees and Wolfi's forest patch, which would provide a realistic look around airports. The are also rather out of scale with the the buildings.

While the Large Black Poplar size seems ok, I could not test the Large Maple because it was not included in the pack.

Tree textures: it depends upon what period of the year you want them to belong to. In my opinion they are ok for spring time while they are tad too brilliant for summertime and they should be toned down somewhat, particularly the beech, but let's ask other members' opinions about this.

Onto the small sizes.....

[kelticheart]

....the below sequence shows the small sizes of your trees.

I placed the largely utilised Bedford truck near them to get a better comparison, Rami placed this vehicle in every ETO scenery layout or mission he made.

I think they could be made a little bigger than this. They are very small, but they look like full grown trees....

Onto the medium ones....

[kelticheart]

...finally the medium sizes.

Again, the Beech model looks to me quite large for a medium size tree. This could be classified as the large size, instead of medium. The same goes for the chestnut, while the Maple could be a little larger. The Black Poplar looks ok to me. Did you notice that small horizontal thin line that shows up above each tree? It shows up for every size, there's probably some editing leftover in their texture files.

I kept the comparison against buildings and vehicle. Let me suggest you to do the same, it's not easy to judge their actual sizes when seen by themselves.
Their final destination will be among other scenery objects and they must blend well into them to get the credit they deserve for your effort at creating them.

There's no question they are already beautiful objects, much needed for realistic ETO/Northern emisphere scenery works, a little bit of refinements will make them perfect.

Yet I would like to hear comments from other people here, mine is only a single point of view.

Thank you for your hard work anyway.

Cheers!
KH