How to create Tree in wind animation in 3ds Max

in today's video, I'll show how to create tree wind animation in 3ds Max on any tree model using no plugin whatsoever, and stick till the end to see how you can actually save this animation to an external file in order to get more options to tweak and manipulate it.
Video BreakDown:
identifying 3 major movements from reference footage:
- small and rapid leaf movement
- medium branch swings
- major trunk bending
in 3ds max:
import the model and optimizing it for viewport animation & memory saving
small leaf movement - select leaf ID and adding noise level 1 - rapid movement in all directions.
medium branch - add edit poly, enable soft selection up to trunk, add noise level2 - bigger scale, major up downswings.
major trunk (optional) - add edit poly, no sub-selection, add bend, and keyframes bending side to side along the timeline.
-saving the animation to point cache file.
-duplicating the movements to another tree.

[@previewstdio]

Really good tutorial. One of the best teachers of archviz tbh

[@manishmv]

I used to these way back in 2008 or so But this way of yours is much more natural and better. Thanks Great video.

[@archvizcamp]

Cool, thanks

[@manishmv]

@@archvizcamp Dear What are your experiences with the animation. What do you suggest is the fastest renderer for people who does not have budget for render farm for frame animation and they want to do good quality animation much above the Lumion level. A video in this regard is greatly appreciated Thanks

[@MelbourneArchviz]

@@manishmv if no renderfarm maybe move your rendering to Unreal Engine. My plan is to do that in the future.

[@manishmv]

@@MelbourneArchviz Then probably we have to do quality compromises apart from learning that how to work in Unreal . can it match the quality of Vray?

[@oliverdoucette5374]

Finally back:)

[@archvizcamp]

Thanks for waiting :)

[@dkns-indiegamedevjourneyso3113]

Absolutely Brilliant. Just what I needed help with. Look forwards to following your development videos. 😄

[@user-hb1yo8yv1z]

Hello. I need help. After deleting bend, edit poly, noise, Cache info: "The cache`s pointcount daoesn`t match the point count of one of the incoming nodes" and animation does not work. What is the problem?

[@igor_safin]

Спасибо друг! Отличный урок! Много нового узнал для себя. Спасибо!

[@stanleyolie4514]

Many many thanks. Waited for this for weeks. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@archvizcamp]

Enjoy!

[@user-zc5hw3jp5q]

I am grateful! Thx

[@deboravaz8857]

Many thanks!!! Excellent video!

[@joshjen1129]

The noise mod is amazing!!

[@Charlie_Alpha_Lima]

I've been looking for this for so long!

[@archvizcamp]

enjoy :)

[@gurrrgurrr8194]

thank you for this tutorial, I d like to ask a question. could this animated tree work well when using Forest pack scattering?

[@JoseGarciaJaen]

Thanks man, that was helpful.

[@montecarlomethod-youtube]

Is it possible to make that animation Loopable if you do it by hand or do you need grow fx or speed tree?

[@zagros90]

Legendary

[@marcelo3ds]

U ARE THE BEST!

[@rodluc2001]

Bravissimo!!

[@fahrialaf4820]

excellent lesson... thnx so much

[@archvizcamp]

😁😁

[@Whereisfer]

Thannnnnnkkk you so much!!!! It was very helpful for me ! :))

[@archvizcamp]

Glad it helped!

[@ephraimmillion]

Thank you so much!!!

[@dkns-indiegamedevjourneyso3113]

Hi there😀The Pointcache file will not export into Unreal Engine 5. I need to export as an FBX and as its an animation, am I meant to collapse each layer before I export? 😊

[@cgpoizon]

Thank you! Please tell me how to move smoothly in the viewport, as shown in the video

[@edwinjansen4785]

i think 3d mouse ;)

[@aicchis_world]

how do you export the asset with the animation?

[@MrConst3D]

Thanks a lot!

[@archvizcamp]

You're welcome!

[@sunitparanjape2722]

nice sir , but tree animation little bit jerk and how solved this

[@adouanehamza]

Hi Sr you have good job and do you have vedeo like this for moving cars and animation and think you

[@valentinneagu2951]

bro how do you navigate in the scene like that? it doesnt seem like the normal alt + middle mouse

[@archvizcamp]

Im using this 3d mouse : kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6u3Zmhnp6ujbsk

[@valentinneagu2951]

@@archvizcamp really appreciate it, thank you

[@dipenkersur6689]

boss great

[@tttkkk8520]

Why every video about moving trees is about the same? Bend an Noise... do you guys copy each other ?

[@archvizcamp]

Well, I actually tried to test different approaches to fake the wind, but I found that the fastest and easy way was to use the noise and bend. Do you have a diffrent way of doing it?