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Good Flora Tools reference for the community (Trees and Plants)

Added by Flapman almost 3 years ago

I found a couple good flora generation apps that I thought I would share with the community:

Plantlife

http://www.aliencodec.com/product_plantlife.php

Treemajik

http://www.aliencodec.com/product_treemagik.php

Both are capable of creating low-poly objects for DirectX. Treemajik works great and gives you an easy way to create trees capable of being used in Vastpark. Plantlife is also pretty good at creating plants. I would be careful about using it. The bugs I have found are the DirectX export function. The models won't render in a Direct X viewer without redoing them. I am working with Game Creators on that. For now, they do help with a good starting point.

My work-around: Create the object and export texture. Import OBJ into Blender and re-do the UV of the image to the new object and re-export to DirectX. Worked good.