Eucalyptus Tree - grouping branches near the top? 'Broccoli' effect

[TKT]

Hi,

 

New to using growfx but am in need of a good eucalyptus populnea tree.

 

Currently I have followed the growfx make a tree tutorial and I've tweaked a little to get a bigger height etc but I'm unsure how to control the levels of branches to increase in density near the top. The tutorial runs you through with 7 levels on the branches but increasing this number beyond I think 8 does nothing in my current tree. Increasing density and length seems to make geometry overlap and go weird.

 

Attaching how the tree currently looks and a sort of reference image to similar effect. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oZQxq Also this portfolio, the less heavy ones have what looks like nice shapes! 5 years ago :o so its definitely do able now :D just not familiar with the software welll enough yet.

 

Any resources or tips to control this would be appreciated!

 

I currently have the levels affect on branches start position 0 ... 5 or something to cull them before the tops of the trees. similar to what the tutorial did just a higher value.

[TKT]

still not quite got used to this. I managed to get cluimps a bit better but it doesnt feel right.

 

trying to find how i can push the levels of a branch to only spawn near the ends. so i can have few big branches reach up and then at the ends they begin to break into their levels of structure. however each time i try i end up with too many branches and they begin splitting too early.

[ptrain03]

You might try doing it without levels. It makes the paths a little easier to control. I just use a path for each branch level.