Use Skatter for Tree Creation

[jql]

Here the story goes…

I started with leaf textures like this:

I built components like these:

I skattered the components into small branch components like these:

I then Skattered the small branches into bigger branch components:

At this point I tried to skatter them into the Trunks and branches that I had already made but Sketchup couldn’t hold it any more and skatter didn’t produce anything overnight.

So I turned the leaves, small branches and bigger branches into proxies:

I thought that if I had all these assets produced I might as well use them all, as these trees I’m making are very random. So I skattered the proxies on the Trunk and Branches and I removed the skatter as render only so I could insert the proxy boxes into the tree components:

I ended up exporting each tree to a sketchup model.
My trees are like this:

The fastest component that works is something like this:

And the original branches are these ones:

[juancarlosestereovis]

very interesting result, i love this!

[SJS66]

Awesome! I like the randomness. Keep up the good work

[jql]

Thank you!

Forgot about how I made the trunks. It was a free app called Tree It. Takes a while getting used to it but then it’s capable and actually fun. Save as a preset and randomize. Tree leafs are not that great and hence Skatter.

[Thomas]

Very nice results!

@jql

skatter didn’t produce anything overnight

You mean that Skatter was computing for the whole night and still didn’t finish? What were the settings?

[jql]

I don’t think it was Skatter that didn’t compute. It computes fine when it’s only proxies or if it’s render only. It’s actually an instant. The problem was, I believe, related with generating geometry for the components with all leafs and branches, so it was a Sketchup issue.

[Thomas]

Oh ok I see

[DrieDeeDesign]

That is one awsome tree …

[jql]

Thanks… But they are nine

[DrieDeeDesign]

Lol yeah I saw the 9 ones in them first row of pictures … okay all 9 look great

[jql]

LOL! That’s better