real-time trees looking for tips and tricks

Zacker: add away. This can be like a mini challenge, The Art of Tree making for real-time games. hehe

Farles: thats some great info. Thankyou for that

Been playing Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike and checking out how Red Storm does their trees and foliage.

The 3 trees that I made above didn't export well into the torque engine, but worked fine in Unreal Editor, so I could sell them on turbosquid or just use them in my portfolio. Not sure if real-time homemade trees are in mass desire since we're almost in Next-gen systems. hehe

KoKo5oVaR those are great for only 200 polys! i love the pic of the gravity gun with the coconuts. hehe

You know with a cartoon texture they could look like they were in Mario Sunshine . I really like the look of the palm trees

Slowly narrowing the gap on getting torque to like my trees. Here's some test for evergreens at 340 polys.

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I bent them a little, following Farles suggestions. More soon, hopefully I'll get Torque to import them correctly.

JynxDaddy & ginsengavenger: thx guys. Torque is pushing my artist buttons when trying to do simple stuff. hehe

an in-game screenshot of the snow evergreen but it has some alpha issues.

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heheh nice st0lve! I didn't look at the documentation yet, Thanks for helping me out. You are the ............ (can't think of a word at the moment)

Hehe, I tried that too KoKo5oVaR. flat doesn't work so great. LOL. I like how blizzard did their trees. I have been playing the 14 day trial looking at all the foliage for ideas.

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Blizzard seem to do this really cool layering effect at all different angles as shown in the image above. Its a really good idea and looks great from a distance.