3ds Max - Crawling Vine

[dellis]

Hey all,

Was messing around creating some foliage for a scene i'm working on right now. Ended up using PFlow for distribution and scaling and randomness control. The vines i did using editable poly (should have spent more time on them), utilizing the extrude along a spline function to get all the offshoots. Now that i know it works i can move to bigger and better models. Heres a couple of test renders.





I'll post some renders of the scene that these are going into if i get some time in the next little while.

[.chad]

if the leaves in the first image are digital, it could very easily pass as a photo from more than 6" away.

nice stuff

[dellis]

Yup...the leaves are fully 3d with photo texture maps. I didn;t add any translucency or slight reflections yet either....cause i know it will send the render times up. Goingto save that for the actual scene that the vines are going into.

[jecurtis22]

hey, I've used AutoCAD for many years and am pretty good with 3d, but I'm trying to learn 3d studio in general. Basically I'm a beginner in 3d studio and want to learn the program. can you list some links to show me how to start learning the program. it looks like you have the program understood, because those leaves look very real great job.

[.chad]

www.cgarchitect.com has tons of tutorials & helpful resources on most / all 3d modeling programs.

[Steve_Bennett]

hey, I've used AutoCAD for many years and am pretty good with 3d, but I'm trying to learn 3d studio in general. Basically I'm a beginner in 3d studio and want to learn the program. can you list some links to show me how to start learning the program. it looks like you have the program understood, because those leaves look very real great job.

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=57818

[dellis]

You may also want to check out the CG Academy dvds as well as the Gnomon Workshop ones as well....but for the money you can't get a better deal then the 3dBuxx dvd....especially if you are first starting to learn MAX.

Having said that.....post problems/questions here......we need to get this forum more active.

[rthurston]

Very nice.... did you use vray? I can't imagine basic scanline doing that!

[dellis]

Yeah....i rendered it in VRay. The scanline would more then likely crash out.