30 Days of Modeling
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Here’s my contribution for today:
Had a lot of fun modelling the trellis (had to look up that word…), partially using Curves.
For the vines I tried using the Ivy Generator, but couldn’t get the control I wanted, so I hand-modelled it and used the Skin Modifier.
Had to apply the Skin Modifier to be able to make a Vertex Group for the leaves. It’s all very basic really, but I am kinda happy with the result;)
This is my vine attempt. I went with the skin modifier for the vine and particle system for the leaves. Was supposed to be a clematis vine.
I got myself reacquainted with the Ivy Generator again. It can be an infuriating add on if you don’t remember the tricks to get it to behave. Namely, set the subsurf to 1 at the most. and turn off any small displacement modifiers.
Ok I ended up following this tutorial: https://cgcookie.com/lesson/generating-ivy. I started off by first creating them by hand but it was too low poly and didn’t really look that great. So I ended up just using the Ivy Generation addon and figured I’d follow the content we already had on the site to create a scene.
Note I only generated the ivy on the statue, I just kept the rest in from the project files from the Creating Plants course here on CGCookie.
The ivy generator has given me such a hard time plus the particle system (after a couple of hours getting frustrated by the particle system, I realised that I had not enabled object under render *rolls eyes*)!!! I was ready to call it quits. The result doesn’t look all that great, it could sure use some improvements.
This actually took me like, forever to make, lots of re-starts!
What I learned today, is that Camera angle and Lighting make all the difference. (I knew that already of course, but this picture made it sooo clear to me!)
I remember, when I was a kid, swinging on these down-hanging branches over the water, feeling like I were Tarzan;)
So, I end these 30 Days of Modelling weeping with the willow.
I learned a lot and had great fun! Thanks Jonathan and all participants.
On to the CGCookie July Challenge!
Trees are a challenge, but I think I am beginning to get the Sapling Generator figured out. I got spend a few minutes everyday on it.
My tree … The bark texture looks a little stretched.
Some leaves are floating, hehe. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
Ok so it’s late here and I managed to get a basic tree going just to finish off this challenge. Used the same method as the bush just with a trunk. Not the best looking tree but at least I know how to create one now for future reference.
@ciku-karugi Trees generated with the Sapling Generator are already UV unwrapped, so it’s just a matter of changing the scale values in the Mapping node.
About the floating leaves; I don’t think they are floating, it looks to me that all your leaves are rotated 90°. They look attached to the branches from their sides. When using a Particle System, remember that the leaves ‘grow from the Origin point’ of the leaf.
Still, I like you picture!
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