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Looking better all the time. Really interested in seeing how to do a larger scale scene (forest etc) including wind.

Couple questions:

- in the wind section, is there a way to do temporal variation as well as spatial? Have gusts of wind move through the tree(s)? Or use curves to 'model' the wind? (those would apply more to clusters of trees than to individual trees, so perhaps you'll have these covered in the upcoming forest walkthrough already)

- like the custom trunk curve, would it also be possible to have some sort of manual control over the overall shape of a tree... perhaps defining the shape by bounding volume geometry?

thanks,
Jasper

Hi Jasper,

These are good ideas. I'll try to squeeze in the wind feature before release, but the tree shape would have to wait for a future version.

as long as there will be more version in future you have our support
really looking forward to this one.
thanks

Broadleaf Forest Walkthrough



*spacial wind feature not shown in this video, but already implemented

Great Plugin.

Looking forward to the release.

Hi Charbel, nice video again, keep 'em coming! Looking forward to learning more about the spatial wind feature.

A few questions:

- About the 'verticalize' parameter: is it possible to have the base of the trunk be always aligned to the normal and then set the point/level at which the trunk starts to 'grow upwards' (verticalize)? That would reflect real life behavior better I think. As in a tree growing from the side of a cliff - the trunk would start out nearly horizontal but still end up growing vertical.

- Is it also possible to add a turbulization/randomization to the alignment after the verticalization - as in, all trees should be growing upwards but not all of them 100% uniform?

- along the same line but for each parameter: can user add turbulization, randomization, weightmap influence etc by plugging in appropriate compounds instead of straight values?

- do you have plans for a 'roots' addition to the trunk? Some types of trees have very pronounced visible roots that are almost an inverted branch system. Gnarly old oaks, for instance.

- is it possible to have different types of trees in one forest or should one create one forest per treetype? And is it possible to have a kind of colission detection option then to avoid intersections? (Or should the user take care of that by filtering a point array at the input by particle ID or something similar)

Okay, quite a few question actually, hope you can answer some of them.

regards,
Jasper

Hi Jasper,

All your comments are valid and applicable, but I'm afraid not for this version, otherwise I will never be able to release Forester in the projected time-frame.

As for different types of trees within one forest, it can already be done suing instancing and scattering. The Forester Scatter walk-through is coming soon.

No problem Charbel, just looking forward!

Forester Leaves walk-through

Looks really promising!

Quick question - when you have multiple leaves from the segments and they are spreading around the branch, is there a way to have most of them face in one direction - so for example have most leaves fairly flat coming off the branches with an upvector of positive y? (Still taking the direction of the branch.)

Amazing! versatile and clean. nice!

@ mattmos, if I understood you correctly, this is the way it actually works by default.

@ tartan, thanks!

Don't know how soon you are planning a release, but I would pay for beta (assuming the price is comparable to other plugins:) ).

I will be in contact with you soon Phil.

Wow...loads of videos...! Great work! Looking forward to the release!

cheers,
oli