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Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:20 am

These will be several packs of prop assets I'm making. The idea is to make a wide variety of natural objects, such as (lots of) plants, mushrooms, rocks, crystals and organic structures for use in maps, to give more variety to the environments people use for there maps. Oh and T-Gen is fun.

Making them in XSI, many of the plants being made with the (awesome) T-Gen plant generating plugin. Textures are being made/taken from BF2 textures, online textures, online/mail catalogues, online photos, and plants i've collected and photographed.

Most of the plants being made have at least two components - solid parts such as a trunk, large branches and base that have collision, and leaves/flowers/small branches that don't. There are also a bunch of grasses, bushes, small mushrooms and shrubs that will only include msh files - these are intended to be used as foliage.

The first pack will be "Tropical Plants", which will have a wide variety of tropical trees and ground plants assets.
These plants are mostly inspired by real world plants or recreations of real world plants.

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[Skirata]Darman[M] · Post by **[Skirata]Darman[M]** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:39 am

Sounds and looks very nice, guy. Jungel with more than three different plants is always needed

I don't know if you already thought about something like this or if it's difficult to make (I'm no model-maker), it's just an advice:

How about making some bigger groups of plants, not only some grass-patches but some trees, lower and higher plants near together? So it wouldn't take that much time and work to make a forest or detailed environment.

Would be nice!

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:41 am

Skyhammer_216 wrote: will have a wide variety of tropical trees and ground plants

TK432 · Post by **TK432** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:24 am

thanks a lot sky, I'm getting tired of the stock stuff.

great work keep it up.

[Skirata]Darman[M] · Post by **[Skirata]Darman[M]** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:28 am

Skyhammer_216 wrote:
Skyhammer_216 wrote: will have a wide variety of tropical trees and ground plants

Uh, sorry, perhaps you understood my advice not right.
I meant, some various objects together as group in ONE object-file, in that case msh, so that you needn't put every plant alone.

Master_Ben · Post by **Master_Ben** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 4:30 pm

Awesome Idea, this'll be extremely to everyone here. Can't wait to see some more pics, Nice work!

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:00 pm

[Skirata]Darman[M] wrote:
Skyhammer_216 wrote:
Skyhammer_216 wrote: will have a wide variety of tropical trees and ground plants
Uh, sorry, perhaps you understood my advice not right.
I meant, some various objects together as group in ONE object-file, in that case msh, so that you needn't put every plant alone.

Oh sorry. In answer tou your original question then, no. I might make some low resolution background models with trees and ground plants, but all the others will probably be 1 tree. These are (mostly) higher detail than the stock trees.

Post by **Maveritchell** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:04 pm

[Skirata]Darman[M] wrote:Uh, sorry, perhaps you understood my advice not right.
I meant, some various objects together as group in ONE object-file, in that case msh, so that you needn't put every plant alone.

This is what foliage layers were designed for.

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:34 am

While looking for a good reference for a certain tree, I stumbled across some very nice palms in obj format on turbosquid that were free. So I converted them to msh and set them up for BF2 to use.

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Included in first pack release (Tropical Plants Pack 1) that will be up shortly.

Unsure as to what next pack will be.....possibly creepy trees, or swamp plants, or giant mushrooms, or snow trees...so much to choose from.

Post by **EraOfDesann** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:23 am

I wish you'd made these sooner.

IronMan_MKII · Post by **IronMan_MKII** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:35 am

looks very good.
a little bit like crysis

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:42 am

Some simple mushrooms (quite large though) for pack two. Not sure what the theme'll be yet. Possibly fungus or cave or exotic "plants".

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Caleb1117 · Post by **Caleb1117** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:54 pm

Heres some good mushroom references if you need them.

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Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:03 pm

Whats the second one from? Looks great!
Like the idea of tree like mushrooms. Have to find some new mushroom textures too.

EDIT:
Edited the mushrooms. New textures and added a ring.

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Caleb1117 · Post by **Caleb1117** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:15 am

Skyhammer_216 wrote:Whats the second one from? Looks great!
Like the idea of tree like mushrooms. Have to find some new mushroom textures too.

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Edited the mushrooms. New textures and added a ring.
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It's from an addon for The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, called The Shivering Isles.

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Nice mushroom, it would be neat if there was some moss, or vines that grew under the 'shroom that you could walk through.

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:58 am

Like those mushroom trees so much I figured I'd make one:

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Mushrooms with lots of "heads" like this one use modified versions of the textures that are slightly lower quality but much faster to UV. Also the mushroom textures will be easily switchable (eg the heads are called "shroomflat_r" and "shroomflat_y") so they can be easily switched around.

@Caleb: yep i'll make some little moss/algae/cave plants to go with the mushrooms.

sampip · Post by **sampip** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:03 am

Wow, that tree looks really good! Nice work!

Delta-1035 · Post by **Delta-1035** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:08 am

Looks very good!

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:39 pm

Next pack added, check the release thread in assets forum.

Its a set of dead trees and rootmasses.

Mushrooms next.

swado95 · Post by **swado95** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:01 am

Yes! Finely someone is making a plant assets. Great work so far. If I could make a request could u make a pine tree like.

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] all the other ones don't look good or are to big like endor ones but one like that would be great. Good work though keep it up

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