Oak Tree Chapter 2

Chapter 2 covers modeling the high poly branches and leaves and then baking them down to a diffuse and normal map texture.

[@AppearYT]

"Oakely Dokely" Haha I died a little :P Great tutorial!

[@Pinkhair3d]

In photoshop, you can 'select by color' in the select menu, which works almost identically to the replace color tool(In fact, I believe it uses the same function under the hood).

[@svenwoolston5198]

just wondering, couldnt you just make another render in max with a black material and a white one depending on what you wanna mask out (leaves or branches) in order to get a clean mask? great tutorial btw! ;)

[@marsmotion]

yes he could have rendered a new diffuse bake with colors added to the model via materials to make a mask map

[@esscee96]

is there any particular benefit to creating the branches in 3D if we're baking it down to a 2D plane anyway? Cause after you traced the vertices you moved them on the Z axis but then you baked it back down to be flat like there was no change in the Z.

[@marsmotion]

the magic comes from the normal maps var orientations

[@19640512aud]

Nice tutorial, you could have just rendered the leaves with pure white with a white glow, and then the branches, would have been much easier to separate them.

[@Ochikatzu]

so.. its better make your own trees in this way or use speedtree?.. i mean, for game engines which is better???

[@marsmotion]

depends how custom it needs to be and how much control