Animate a tree in 3ds Max: 3 Techniques

We will see how to animate a tree in 3ds max using multiple techniques.
Some times you need a fast animation, 3 fast techniques to animate with modifiers, or controllers, or adding Tyflow in to the mix. I will explain some tips and tricks and considerations as well.
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The curse for animation a tree in Thinking Particles: effectivetds.com/resources/fx...
Forum: effectivetds.com/forum/
0:00 Intro
0:23 1-Softselection/Noise technique
2:00 2-Detach branches
4:36 3-Tyflow
10:36 4-Other techniques

[@3DLASHnet]

Why am I seeing this after 4 years.. Many thanks sir

[@jayphillips1011]

This is the best animation tree tutorial in 3Ds Max I have seen online. Well explained

[@jahirhussain2484]

Wow! I am doing a small shot right now with some trees in the bg and was thinking it would be nice if the trees had some motion but i didn't know how to do that.And then you drop this video.Thank you so much sir!

[@NolanMillerArt]

Thank you so much for posting this! I've been looking for a simple and straight forward explanation for Tyflow. this is great!

[@kudraabdulaziz3096]

Thanks Mr Eloi Andaluz,you are a life saver 👊😎

[@alessiobaroni9666]

Great tips! thank you Eloi

[@mattmatt8991]

Great stuff sir ! Much appreciated !

[@mikbal7055]

Woah. this one was very good ,in fact as good as happy endings . Thank you !

[@user-qn1xb8fd4b]

awesome and quick! thank you

[@arq.javiercivale430]

Gracias Eloi! Muy bueno

[@mxrtin_gali]

Awesome tutorial!.. Eloi

[@flyzvfx]

Great video! Thanks

[@nelpiper]

Thanks Eloi

[@GravitonStudio]

Very useful tutorial , Thanks

[@dokn221]

nice video and useful technique. have nothing new to say .every thing said completely

[@lucaaffatato99]

amazing tutorial!!!!!!

[@kanka1]

NICE TUTORIAL DUDE

[@pedbigas]

Awesome!!

[@vonderstroy]

Awesome!

[@cgimadesimple]

great techniques

[@omarherrera2100]

excelente!!

[@guilhermepanosso6528]

nice..thanks

[@dvesco]

Hi Eloi, great tutorial as always. With the second technique, using noise rotation, is there a way to bake controllers ?? I been looking everywhere and nothing seems to work, even exporting as FBX with animation baked... thanks

[@Potatinized]

10 years ago i came up with the 3rd method but more detailed and accurate. That project alone steered me to who I am today, a technical director. I still dont fully know wtf am I doing half of the time. But at this point, I dont think anyone cares as long as I get the job done.

[@arqrenderz6210]

Can you share the method¿¿ ;)

[@clearstoryimaging]

Was hoping to see GrowFX. Great tutorial nonetheless!

[@000kxk]

super! do we need a Mesh Operator to get a render?

[@harmandeepsingh1807]

my leaves are not visible on small dots are there plc help me what to do, i select the leaves also

[@nikden8392]

Hi!!! How can I transpose this type of animation to Unreal?

[@Anonymous-uo8xx]

Is there a place we can get a tree like this from?

[@michellevanpampus3417]

Does this method works with Trees from Maxtree? thanks

[@MariMuthu-pw6tg]

how to enable key frame

[@williamdainese]

Why don't you select by the material IDs... much easier

[@denissvirid7768]

Hey, guys, do you know why leaves are not visible in the render, only in the viewport? (in tyflow)

[@andvfx]

You need to add a “mesh” operator in any event in tyflow if you want to render it directly

[@samippudke]

this very hard process is there any plugin avalble just give wind n tree will animate automaclly ? we cant this if i have 50 tree in scene

[@andvfx]

Normally if you have the tree coming from speedtree I will just do the animation there, that its automatic, and export it in alembic.

[@pedrotorres3647]

Hi mate, I have a question. With the technique where you detach and animate different parts, how can I scatters this tree as a single mesh as I've tried using multiscatter and forestpack and I cant get it to work because it has multiple objects.

[@andvfx]

You could convert to vrayproxy first and then scatter. Or you can use the new forestpack8 beta that allow to scatter taking linked objects

[@pedrotorres3647]

@@andvfx Thank you. I think this technique is one of the less computer intensive out of all the options except for SpeedTree. I also notice that the Tyflow option is great but it seems to slow down the system once I start applying multiple stacked layers of edit polygon and twists.

[@srikumartata]

why cant you select by material ID ?

[@andvfx]

You can do it. But the idea is that exterior tree areas will move more than interior areas not exposed to win. Selecting by Id you will select all leaves, interior and exterior.

[@MariMuthu-pw6tg]

my tree is not animate