Question about trees(brances)

[bboy-tiger-]

Hello.
I would like to know how people do brances on trees in wc3. I suppose you guyz dont create every branch on tree... its visually adapted by textures right ? So I need some tips about it. But I want to make a bit higher quality trees than regular wc3 trees but still to not have too many extra poligons...
Thanks.

 

[TDR]

It's just planes with a texture that has alpha channel.

 

[bboy-tiger-]

I thought that. Isnt that sometimes really bad when you watch it from different angles ?
Anyway I will check some model from Ultimate Terrain Pack... Tnx for info now I need to exame that a bit what angle is best etc... I see you help people a lot .

 

[BlinkBoy]

most trees in 3d models use textures with alpha channels. Imagine modeling leaf by leaf? that would be very hard, plus sometimes when there's too much folliage, we make planes that represent groups of leaves, in order to reduce polies.

There's a nice tutorial by Born2Modificate in wc3c about making plant models.

 

[bboy-tiger-]

Really ? I will check that out. Tnx for that info. Thank you very much .

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

just go and check my recources over at wc3c...
i used to make lots of different trees, so studying them might help you to sort out how it could work...

you can also take only the leaves and model the main branches (not too much detail) and make the leaves billboarded!

 

[bboy-tiger-]

Ok will now.
LoL i got one more question. How to make models so they have different variations ?

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

well, just model another tree and make it have the same style, but look different...