Nature Pack - Discussion

[berghoff 11]

I'm working not on a Island this time but on a object pack, a nature pack to be exact (A Alpha version is included on Homeland right now).

A nature pack with all kind of fancy trees that can be put on your custom Island.

Right now I've planned to include;

A set of 'lush' trees/bushes containing;

- Maple tree (Acer campestre)

- Poplar tree (Populus fastigiata)

- Willow tree (Salix babylonica)

- Oak tree (Quercus Robur)

- Pine tree (Pinus Pinea)

* White pine

* Maritime pine

- Apple tree (Pyrus Malus)

- Holly Tree (Ilex aquifolium)

- Misc bushes (for birds and ppl to hide in)

- European Beech

- Juniper

- Fir

- Linden

- Spurce

- Willow

A re-edited Everon Island will be included in the release to show how the new trees look like.

I also will some desert stuff later on but I don't have enough details about that yet.

Too avoid lag issues I will make a low and high quality version.

Some WIP screens;

Birch tee;

Paper brich tree and willow on background;

If you have question or requests please ask. (And no, no birds are included sadly enough)

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Looks like a very good work!

Keep it up.

MfG Lee

[Raptor 10]

yes looks great...

[offtime 0]

looks like you have alpha chanel problems :-)

if you need a hand with that just pm me :-)

tip: dont use paa, use pac, with two colors alpha chanel ;-)

[SpecOp9 0]

Looks great man, they are nice and springy, would fit good for if I were to make a naboo island

[belgerot 33]

Looks like a very nice project, perhaps we can see a tree with a stork nest?

[berghoff 11]

looks like you have alpha chanel problems :-)

if you need a hand with that just pm me :-)

tip: dont use paa, use pac, with two colors alpha chanel ;-)

I did use .pac on the trees only that poplar leaf texture is a lil problem. Will fix it.

[Taconic 0]

Very, very cool idea. I have wanted to see something like this for a while... I would have done something myself if I could model more than a crate in o2.

It's looking very good so far. Have you considered making this a community initiative of sorts? It would be very nice to eventually have a foliage pack that contained all kinds of stuff from autumn maples to jungle palms and in high quality.

[offtime 0]

Very, very cool idea. I have wanted to see something like this for a while... I would have done something myself if I could model more than a crate in o2.

It's looking very good so far. Have you considered making this a community initiative of sorts? It would be very nice to eventually have a foliage pack that contained all kinds of stuff from autumn maples to jungle palms and in high quality.

and for little desert island with two palms you would need to download whole XXX Mb pack ;-)

better to make few themed packs ;-)

[Commando84 0]

what about some snowy tree's? like snowy pine tree's that people can place out, but i think other tree's and bushes don't grow any green leaves n stuff on the winter so they could be tree's without the green parts on them

i hope you understood my messy lines there

[berghoff 11]

what about some snowy tree's? like snowy pine tree's that people can place out, but i think other tree's and bushes don't grow any green leaves n stuff on the winter so they could be tree's without the green parts on them

i hope you understood my messy lines there

Maybe later on. Right now I'm very busy on the Lush part. I'll keep posting some screen in here.

[Desert-Rat 0]

The trees looks amazing and you know the neame of everyone of them are you gardener?

now we just need some animals and then we have a wild life OFP

[berghoff 11]

No I'm not a gardener. I just love the nature and birds =D. I've found the names on internet ofcourse. I will try to be as releastic as possible.

[Schoeler 0]

What was meant by using a two color alpha is to use a green that is slightly offset from the green of the foliage for the leaves and a brown that is slightly offset from the brown of the trunk as your alpha channel colors and it will eliminate the "glowing" edges you are getting. This will save you a lot of time from hand editing your alphas to correct the problem.

Listen, if you are serious about this project, I can give you speedtree for 3D Studio Max and a crapload of professionally done textures from Marlin Studios and ImageCELs. Also, I have Xfrog and textures for that application as well as a range of RPC 3D textures that are readily converted in photoshop.

The only thing I ask is that the finished products go into the 3WX Nursery inventory upon completion for the community to use at their will.

[metalchris 0]

good work Berghoff .

I too had some trees in the work but never really finished them.

[berghoff 11]

Quote[/b] ]What was meant by using a two color alpha is to use a green that is slightly offset from the green of the foliage for the leaves and a brown that is slightly offset from the brown of the trunk as your alpha channel colors and it will eliminate the "glowing" edges you are getting. This will save you a lot of time from hand editing your alphas to correct the problem.

Oh thx for the tip. Didn't know that, will try it out.

Quote[/b] ]The only thing I ask is that the finished products go into the 3WX Nursery inventory upon completion for the community to use at their will.

Thx but I'm making this pack for the community to use at their will in OFP/AA/VBS1.

@metalchris

Nice texture mate!

[berghoff 11]

The Oak tree, hmmm still haven't figured out how to solve the alpha channel prob. Don't mind the problem with the leaf you see.

[offtime 0]

two colors alpha chanel means that in alpha chanel you use only 2 colors, black and white. it doesnt means simple grayscale, but realy only two colors, black and white.

there is such function in photoshop wich will let you obtain that, but i have polish version of PSP and i dont know how to translate "próg..." :P

maybe someoneelse can help

[berghoff 11]

Yea mean something with Threshold?

[offtime 0]

Yea mean something with Threshold?

dont know

look for such window dude

[berghoff 11]

Ah yea, it much better now. Thanks a lot mate.

[Desert-Rat 0]

hehe a Quercus robour

[Ares1978 0]

Very nice work, BergHoff. [insert "thumbs up"-smilie here]

Just me opening my mouth again, but those leafs could perhaps be a bit smaller.

[berghoff 11]

Few more, this is the darker version;

Quote[/b] ]Very nice work, BergHoff. [insert "thumbs up"-smilie here]

Just me opening my mouth again, but those leafs could perhaps be a bit smaller.

Heh Thanks , yea they can and will be smaller, I only used a little part of the texture there, so the leafs look too big.

[kavoven 4]

wow, looks really cool, keep it up