Plantdings

This was originally going to include several new tree models, but I decided to cut them and put in five styles and three group configurations of mushrooms instead. The trees will appear in another font coming up soon, but by specializing this one, I was able to refine the plant-plane clusters to match potential needs much better.

The way these work, if you've never used this technique before, is very simple, but depends very much on the textures you use rather than the models themselves. "a" through "s" are various clusters of flat, two-sided planes which each map a whole texture on them once. If you use an image of a leaf or cluster of leaves with transparency around the outside, these models will display that in a configuration that appears to be 3D (or close enough).


http://www.3dmmfiles.com/uploads/hom..._leaftest1.vxp

Here's an example of the kind of texture that's effective with these models. It's the only one I bothered to make in order to text them, and certainly not the best possible one, but you or someone else can easily make more with a little effort. Click the image to download the one I used.

Similarly, the "a", "b", and ">" models are intersected polygons, a technique game developers use to display trees. You may notice (especially in first- and second-gen FPSes) that trees and plants don't look the same as other 3D models in-game, or rotate to always face the camera in a strange way. This is the most efficient way to do plants in real-time, it saves a tremendous amount of polygons and thus framerate. You'll need a symmetrical transparent texture for these:


http://www.3dmmfiles.com/uploads/hom...planttest1.vxp



Finally, the multi-piece models begin at "G" with the flower stem and continue on all the way through the `~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\|;:'",<.>/? keys. If you animate any one object that's part of a group, you can copy and paste it on frame one and change it to another member of that group and it will already be in place and animate along the same path. The groups are:

GHK - Low-poly Flower
IJK - High-poly Flower
LMN - Flower Field 1
OPQ - Flower Field 2
RST - Flower Field 3
UVW - Flower Field 4
XYZ - Flower Field 5
`~! - Mushroom 1
@#$ - Mushroom 2
%^& - Mushroom 3
*() - Mushroom 4
-_= - Mushroom 5
[{] - Mushroom Group 1
}\| - Mushroom Group 2
;:' - Mushroom Group 3
"/? - Mushroom 6

I didn't do as many screenshots for this one because it takes a lot more work to show off the unique facets of this font vs. the relative ease of FPVdings, and I'm exhausted from working on this all day. Feel free to post your own (in fact, please do!).

[Breed]

what do you say about something like this? holy mother. <3.

[HMC]

Yay

[Cowtacular Spleen]

Yo, sweet job Aaron! There's gonna be a feild of flowers in every movie of mine from now on... just because I can.

[Michael Sandford]

AWESOME... although the link to the pot plant texture doesn't work

[Eric Burger]

Fantastic work as always, Aaron! Keep it up, man!

[Kevitus]

I love you Aaron.

[Aaron Haynes]

Originally Posted by Michael Sandford

AWESOME... although the link to the pot plant texture doesn't work

Should work now.

[Toonsville]

Your work is great Aaron!

[Tuna Hematoma]

I am going to make love to Aaron.

[Aaron Haynes]

Sweet.

[HMC]

Here's a leaf texture I made yesterday to test out Leafdings:

Leaves - Red Buckeye:



http://www.psychoholiday.com/uploade...redbuckeye.vxp

[Jesterfoot]

Holy hell this is great, you must be a mind reader or something because I was going to dedicate today to do nothing but download and convert plant models(as well as other small objects) for my movie. Now I think I'll go enjoy a nice lemonade at the park.

10/10

[Aaron Haynes]

Hahah, not so fast, this is mostly scattered outside-grounds stuff. More unique houseplants and trees are coming in a future font.

[Samurai Clinton]

Now, that's just great.

We could add more realism to wilderness highway scenes with this scenery.

Here is a crude illistration of a vehicle randomization scene:


It would be nice if we had an easy way to put scenery in long traffic scenes.

[Aaron Haynes]

Glad you like. Out of curiosity, why are you so fixated on vehicle randomization?

Please don't make a ten-minute movie about a traffic jam. I'm begging you. I want to nip this one in the bud ahead of time.

[Mabdog]

niiice

and clinton.. stop posting that everywhere

[Trooper]

Great work as always Aaron! You've been a God recently, what with Big Movie, this font and some mod or other I liked. Nice one!

Originally Posted by Samurai Clinton

We could add more realism to wilderness highway scenes with this scenery.

Hahahaha! This is just taking the piss now. You've invaded a non-vehicle-related thread and managed to infect it with your highway OCD. Just stop! PLEASE!?

[Stroggdor]

HECK YES! This is absolutly awesome! I love the mushrooms! Great work! Exclamations!

[Space Goat]

Awesome looking stuff.

[Cubert]

Hahaha this is awesome- I look forward to all these other great fonts headed our way.

[Fredrick]

Well done, Aaron. These will be extremely useful. Same goes for your FPVdings mod.

[Fish Taco]

Brilliant. I'll make sure to use this .

[Jacob Lake]

Love your mods! Please make more!

[chili]

Hello! I'm new here and I downloaded few expansion packs already (they were all in .3TH or .3CN files). But now I want to download your stuff which is all in .vxp format and none of these files work in my 3DMM! What am I doing wrong, can somebody explain me? All other files worked great... Thanks in advance