Creating 2D and 3D Trees on the Mac

Written by Carlos Camacho | Saturday, November 19, 2005

Over the last few months, iDevGames’ forum has had post on tree textures, a developer looking for pine tree textures, and more recently, a thread on making trees. On the commercial side, one of the most advanced 3D tree creation apps if by Onyx Computing and comes is available as a plugin for Electric Image. For those with VirtualPC, the low-cost Windows app TreemagikG3 should be looked at, since it excels at creating low polygon trees. A great “free” alternative is Arbaro, which is written in Java and exports to DXF/OBJ. In the 2D realm, DigiArts Software markets several CD/DVD-ROMs for popular image editors that can be used to create complete trees or textures. If you’re in the market for a complete 3D modeling and rendering application, that won’t cost you a kidney, I highly recommend Carrara 5, as it contains a nice tree generator amongst many other great tools for game developers.

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David Helgason wrote on Nov 20th at 06:42AM
People who are interested in this type of thing should have a look at the UniTree comminity project, whose goal it is to make automatic foilage with LODing for Unity. More info here http://unify.bluegillweb.com/unitree/index.html
Fenwick Cooper wrote on Jan 4th at 10:04AM
Little Stick for Mac OS X is a computer program that generates pictures, movies and 3D models of trees. Please go to http://www.LittleStick.com for more information.
alexa wrote on Feb 12th at 08:50AM
The name raster graphics editor is sometimes used to contrast this approach to that of general editors which also handle vector graphics for <a href="http://www.treetopia.com ">Artificial trees</a>
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