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https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/search/site/3d%20tree%20maker]]> Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:11:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5973-how-to-make-a-low-poly-tree.aspx Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:38:12 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5973-how-to-make-a-low-poly-tree.aspx Tue, 11 Oct 2016 04:26:29 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5973-how-to-make-a-low-poly-tree.aspx

I make the leaves and then import the texture and then create a plane with as few poly's as possible that would accept the texture without distortion if i unwrapped it out flat.

I didnt notice if they show how to unwrap the trunk but you can if you like put the leaves and trunk on one texture although I get lazy and use two a lot LOL. But you just unwrap and place on the texture as you go.

the leaves make a few sizes of planes and then once the texture is applied just you know duplicate the planes holding the leaves and arrange it on the tree in a pleasing manner.

I stopped looking at the tutorial after I saw him arranging the planes on the texture he made. A good source of leaf textures is your house plants. LOL most of my trees are really just using houseplant leaves that I may have altered a bit.

I might as well post this up here as it kind of goes with it.. once upon a time i used to make textures including seamless textures for things like that guy is doing using photoshop (or something like it) but manually making seamless textures sucks.. and times have changed so a few years ago now I switched to this thing

I dont know if i showed this to ziggy or not but if you use 3dcoat this is great for making smart textures/materials of all kind

https://www.allegorithmic.com/products/bitmap2material

I now use all these guys products but the first thing I got from them was bitmap2material. Substance painter is nice too and substance designer is very useful but its also not very user friendly (the substance designer that is.. the substance painter is easy to use like 3dcoat for painting)

Anyhow if you like automated processes you can make all your masks and easily make seamless textures with a few clicks of a button and using some sliders.
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Import the resuklting ASE file as follows:
DON'T USE ID TEXTURES
MAP ALPHA TO: OPACITY MASK (NOT OPACITY!)
NO AMBIENT OCCLUSION MAP
DOUBLE SIDED

In Muvizu, the cones are invisible because the opacity mask only sees the opaque part of the image, which is the leaves. You should get something like this:

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(Don't worry that you don't see the transparency yet... in the modelling environment it's helpful to see the edges for alignment purposes)

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In the graphic editing program, either draw leaves or find eaves online that have a transparent background (or start with any ol' leaf image and erase the background yourself... but it is important that the leaves have a transparent background, and that you save the image as a PNG (JPG and most other image formats don't preserve the transparent background). You'll end up with something that looks like this:



the gray part with the UVMap is on a different layer than the leaves... so once you have the leaves arranged to fill the UVMap, turn off the layer with the UVMap and you'll end up with something that looks like this (Except instead of a white background it should be a checkerboard style background indicating that it is transparent


save that as a separate file.. it will be used as the texture for your cone....]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2016 02:12:07 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5973-how-to-make-a-low-poly-tree.aspx
1) in a modeling program create a cone. Delete the surface on the round end so you have something that resembles a pointed ice cream cone

2) Select the edges around the round end, and one of the seams from the point to the round side. Make these edges UV seams (however your software does that)

3) unwrap the cone in your UV map window, and you should get this... (you may have to scroll sideways to see it all...)

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