How to Create Stunning Trees
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Andrew Price in Modeling, Tutorials
In the last tutorial we created killer grass, perfect for any outdoor scene. So why not top it off with some realistic trees? No nature scene is complete without it!
The tutorial will take you approximately 30 minutes to complete.
During the tutorial you will learn how to:
- Efficiently use bezier curves
- Use the curve to tree script to generate complicated twigs
- Create low poly leaves
- Properly texture a tree
- Hand paint displacement onto an object
You will need:
- Bark Texture
- Normal Mapped Bark Texture
- Leaf Texture (Image 1)
- Alpha Masked Leaf Texture
- Tree Reference Photo (If you own this photo please let me know, I have lost the original link)
Ready? Let’s begin…
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Be sure to post your results in the comments section below!
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Ayoub
26. Jun, 2010
hello, I wanna say to u that you’ve got a huge knowlage on blender I’ve learnd a lot of you and thank you .
by the way keep on and dont care about people who says bad things to you . you know the reason and for me you look nice and hansam .thank
gat
26. Jun, 2010
Well, turns out that the script is not good enough to create good trees (its excellent for bushes). After much trial and deliberation I have not been able to come up with wanted results. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to make trees? I tried using 2D images stacked together but they would not render properly. Shadows did do not drop in proper places. If anyone ever tried Carrara tree system that is what I would like to have, but I want to make everything inside blender for this project and not export anything from another program.
jose
30. Jun, 2010
sorry my english is not good. my friend, i have a question, when i create the leafs, i have a problem, my tree is very poor and my leaf don´t have the texture correctly. i need some help.
add the url of my render!!
thanks
[IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/358t1jr.jpg[/IMG]
Zachary
13. Jul, 2010
works great for trees and bushes and stuff from what i can see. wahoo! only problume is each time i try to render it my blender crashes since my computer is out of date and slow
i am going to have to get a better computer i guess… well dude your an inspiration, i have watched a lot of your stuff and i am impresed 
have you made any games? if so did you try selling them? you have the skills lol
Cypriano Tembo
14. Jul, 2010
My internet speed is just too slow’ I cant wach video tutorials.
Gaurav
27. Jul, 2010
it was really very useful tutorial,
but, i can’t render image in ‘remembering_the_past.blend’ file
i have core2duo cpu, 2 gb ram, blender 2.53
is this too big for my pc ?
the render crashes every time , even on the lower resolution settings
don’t have any idea what to do for bigger .blends, which usually fails after some time.
plz help
Josh Clark
29. Jul, 2010
Mixing this with the storm and rain tutorials and painting instances from Blender Cookie is helping a great deal to my War of the Worlds promotion image based on the chapter “in the Storm” from the book