GrowFX animation and Vray animated proxies and other questions prior to purchase

[stevesideas]

A few questions:

 

Is the topic title possible ? Basically taking GrowFX information and scattering thousands of vray animated proxies around that use the growfx information ? Im assuming you would have to bake in the animation before converting to a vray animated proxy.

 

Also, Can I convert the growfx trees to basic meshes and then convert to vray proxies ?

 

If I buy a single license will I need any more node licenses for my other machines to render growfx...in its native state within max...obviously converting to a mesh I wouldnt need a render node license.

 

Does Growfx come with a library of trees so I dont have to make up everything from scratch ?

 

Just need to know if these are possible before purchasing.

[Eduard]

A few questions:

 

Is the topic title possible ? Basically taking GrowFX information and scattering thousands of vray animated proxies around that use the growfx information ? Im assuming you would have to bake in the animation before converting to a vray animated proxy.

Just you can create animated Vray proxies from GrowFX animated objects directly.

 

Also, Can I convert the growfx trees to basic meshes and then convert to vray proxies ?

Yes, in the full version you'll have enabled the option "Convert to mesh" in the Preference parameters rollout. Just check it and then convert to a mesh in the usual way.

 

If I buy a single license will I need any more node licenses for my other machines to render growfx...in its native state within max...obviously converting to a mesh I wouldnt need a render node license.

After purchasing you'll get access to a secure area of our website, where you can download the GrowFX full (workstation) and render node versions.

The GrowFX render node version you can install on your rendering PCs.

 

Does Growfx come with a library of trees so I dont have to make up everything from scratch ?

Unfortunately, we don't have yet a full library of trees, we have only a few trees and other plants. How many and which trees you need?

 

Just need to know if these are possible before purchasing.

Thanks for your question!

 

Cheers

[stevesideas]

Thanks for the quick response. Im probably going to need a number of variations of broadleaf trees and also some silver birch...probably a good selection of broadleaf and deciduous trees.

 

Do you supply the textures and uvw mapping also or is that something we need to do ourselves ?

 

Cheers

 

Steve

[Eduard]

Thanks for the quick response. Im probably going to need a number of variations of broadleaf trees and also some silver birch...probably a good selection of broadleaf and deciduous trees.

Unfortunately, we don't much these trees.

But you can look in the Examples folder, after installing the demo version. Maybe there you will find something?

 

Do you supply the textures and uvw mapping also or is that something we need to do ourselves ?

The UVW mapping GrowFX generates automatically, but the textures we don't have yet

 

Cheers

[stevesideas]

Ok. Thanks for the info

[ptrain03]

Ok. Thanks for the info

 

I have been using cgtextures.com for my tree textures. You can find almost anything there.

 

good luck