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Hi, is it possible to use my own 3D trees with this plugin? for example I have a great quality 3D trees, set for v-Ray and I want to scatter them into the forest. Can I use this plugin to get randomly rotated and scaled 10 000 of these trees?

I need to get something like this: forest in rhino example

Thanks for your reply

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Permalink Reply by Albert Rodríguez on October 17, 2011 at 11:30am

Hi Matus!
Yes, you can use your own trees. In the Species properties dialog, you can customize both the 2D and 3D representation by assigning 3dm files. The user can select any of the 3dm files of the included library or can select a folder in which to find any custom 3dm file:

This can be done just for the current drawing or can be done on the persistent database, so the configuration will be avalilable in future drawings.

Once assigned, the forest command can help you to achieve the 10000 trees (block references) with random rotation and scale (though the diameter-height ratio will be constant). This is theory, in practice, I am afraid that 10000 detailed trees could be too much for Rhino, specially if they are "great quality 3D trees" which means thousands and thousands of triangles.

For this reason, in order to use a big number of great quality trees without compromising the Rhino performance, RhinoLands can use Flamingo trees which geometry is generated in render time:

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Permalink Reply by Matus Nedecky on October 17, 2011 at 11:47am

i feel like a blind man now... I cannot see the download section anywhere.
Where can I download this plugin to test it?

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Permalink Reply by Albert Rodríguez on October 17, 2011 at 1:09pm

Your vision is Ok! it's just that we removed the download page shortly after publishing this web. The reason is that we detected some critical bugs. Most of them are now fixed, but we don't want to precipitate the release, even for a WIP version.

Francesc Salla is doing the quality testing. He will decide the release date. Meanwhile, we are just putting here videos, images and basic info, without doing any real difusion yet. And we are happy to see that there are curious people passing by here and stopping to ask.

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