Tree generator?

[AlphaRay]

Hello,

i've finally time to code on my game - after two year break
There are some changes and cool new stuff in TV...but i have the same problem  i had two years ago. There is no (easy) way to create 'beautyful' real time LOD trees 
I've found 'FreeTree'...but this project seems to be freezed since 2005??

Is somebody working on a tool like this or is there an another i have not seen??

[WEst]

Yep, my FreeTree is still on freeze, don't know when I'll have time to continue it. Toaster has also worked on a tree generator some time ago, don't know about the status of his gen at the moment though.

[Dimple]

Here's Toaster's site. I haven't tried it though.

http://treegen.pipedreamgames.com/

[AlphaRay]

Ah...I show Toasters TreeGen on youtube. Looks very interesting

@WEst:  will you work on it in the future? Its about 5 years ago you freezed.. What about putting it on sourceforge and making open source so other (many??) interested people can work on it? 

Yesterday i saw Ogres Treegen...looks very impressive:
http://www.torusknot.com/ogrespeedtree.html

[Dimple]

Looks like I am going to have to try this out. Now that I've watched the you tube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEEgZJLvsDs

[AlphaRay]

Yeah..thats Toasters TreeGen 


I think here are a lot of people who want to have a real-time tree/plant engine...maybe we - the tree-needers  - have to start an official open source real tree generation lib for TV3D...maybe as "TVRT - Truevision3D RealTree" or similar 

I've several photos (about 800) of grounds, leafs, trunks and plants i made 2,5 years ago for my game..all in 10 Megapixels. It's no problem to take more 

Paper aout real time tree rendering i found:  http://www3.uji.es/~ribelles/Dept/Papers/Papers/dlsi_01032002.pdf

Another paper. "Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees":   http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall02/cps124/resources/p119-weber.pdf

Several docs about tree and plant generation:  http://www.vterrain.org/Plants/Papers/

As sample a tree generator for POV-Ray:  http://arbaro.sourceforge.net/

[AlphaRay]

Funny SpeedTree Movies...Editor + PhysiX:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HO2o4poY0w&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlZdl4bVD0s&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otfco9pCDI4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGFzGPSP3Ew&feature=related

Nobody needs a tool like this for TV3D...except me?