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Got it. Thanks!

Hi I'm seeing no "convert to mesh" or "convert to spline" in the preferences in 1.9.9 SP9. Where are they? Thanks Mark

Hi Ben Good timing. I'd been doing other things, but I'm just about to start up again. I'm still trying to figure out the best solution for the particular tree I'm doing. It has clumps of blossom, so it's a liitle trickier than leaves to get looking good. I took a look at some of the assets in the marketplace. I'm sorry, I can't remember the exact numbers, but if you're going to use many trees in a scene, as few polys as possible. It's still not at the stage where you can go crazy. If it's a hero tree, then you can up the number. Export is just FBX of the whole tree. In the end, I decided to just get the trunk and main branches out of GrowFX and model the smaller branches, leaves and blossom seperately, although you could do them in GrowFX too. The poly count really jumps if you do smaller branches with meshes, even if you reduce the detail. The solution is to make some variants as meshes, bake them onto planes and position them as naturally as possible. Not GrowFX, but here are some of the links I'm using as reference. Also please let me know if you find anything useful! https://simonschreibt.de/gat/airborn-trees/ http://ericchadwick.com/img/tree_shading_examples.html

Thanks. I'll take a look. Since posting, I found the free Unreal foliage pack, so I'll take a look at that to see what they work with.

Hi I wondered if anybody would be willing to share tips for creating foliage for Unreal Engine. I'm about to start off experimenting. I'm concerned about ... 1. total poly count 2. whether to use meshes or opacity mapped leaves 3. how I should set up groups of leaves and branches so they're easy to deal with and efficient in UE Thanks. Mark

Thanks! That is much much closer than my effort. I can definitely use it. Appreciate the help.

Thanks. That would be great if you could. I've tried tweaking everything without success.

Hi Using Leaves Mesh, is there any way to get a serration at the end of a petal like in the attached image? Or will I have to model them and use Instanced? Thanks Mark

That's it! Thanks!

Apologies for my awful explanation. I've uploaded an image. The cross to right is how it looks from above. Thanks!

I'd appreciate some help getting Cosmos branches right. I have a main stem. From one point, there are two branches at 180 degrees to each other. At the next point up the stem, there are two more branches at 180 degrees to each other but at 90 degrees in relation to the pair above and below. That continues up the main stem. How do I do this? Can I do it with one distributor, or will I need two? Thanks Mark

Thanks Eduard. I'll do that.

Hi Eduard I have 1.9.9 SP4 installed. I disabled calculation and managed to debug it. It looks like the instanced mesh for the leaves was causing trouble. I replaced that and it works fine now. Thanks Mark

Hi The maple trees from the free library are crashing max 2015. Opening the max files or importing the gfx files, both crash max. Any way I can avoid this? Thanks Mark

Got it. Thanks!