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The Oak

The Oak
Description:	There were a couple of free trees available for download at Xfrog. Here I used two oak trees. The sun provides the direct light, the ambient light and the backdrop from my Marmorera_SD_2560 HDRI.
Added by:	Horo
Keywords:	tree, xfrog, hdri, marmorera
Date:	07.12.2013 19:22
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Downloads:	64
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File size:	588.1 KB

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bullit35744
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Join Date: 10.22.2008
Comments: 390

This turned out really nice!!

07.12.2013 22:08

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Horo
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Join Date: 05.26.2004
Comments: 4721

Thank you, Trish.

07.13.2013 19:39

rashadcarter1
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Join Date: 06.04.2006
Comments: 2610

X-Frog trees are excellent. I am not convinced however that they are always the best. I'd say here that the fruit really adds a nice level of detail to the model. If only the branches and stems were less perfect these trees would look quite natural.

07.15.2013 19:31

Horo
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Join Date: 05.26.2004
Comments: 4721

What I don't like are the leaves. They are not proper meshes, only flat rectangles using the picture material to give them shape. No problems if placed at some distance from the camera, but this is exactly what I wanted to test: close-up.

07.16.2013 07:53

slepalex
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Join Date: 10.15.2010
Comments: 881

A good experiment, Horo.
I beg to differ with you regarding leaves. Some of the leaves look very good. Much depends on the configuration of the material, Bump and lighting. http://www.bryce5.com/details.php?image_id=5278
What really is a problem because it is a dark flip side of the leaves.
You can solve this problem by using the method of Rashad. You must disable "Cast Shadows" in the terrain material. In this case, the light of HDRI will illuminate from the bottom side of leaves (simulation of light reflected from the ground). You can still beneath the surface of the earth to put an additional light source.
The second way is to make the leaves partially transparent.
It is also possible to combine both methods.
Only X-Frog trees have a lot of polygons. Therefore, the presence in the scene of several different trees too increases the file size and memory usage.

07.20.2013 17:21

Horo
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Join Date: 05.26.2004
Comments: 4721

Thank you Alexey. The trees I got from Xfrog all have rectangular leaves, not bent. That's probably why they were free. Because I have transparency for cutting out the leaf form, it's difficult to add more transparency. A bit of bump would have been good, it didn't occur to me.

I know about the shadow casting on the terrain but I hadn't thought of putting a light source beneath. Good idea! The HDRI used is too weak on the underside.

The link to your tree shows mesh leaves which certainly have many polygones and look natural, not like a sheet of paper mine have.

07.24.2013 18:57

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