mathfan schrieb:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to make a nice landscape picture, but I don't know how to make
> forest. I've tried things like tomtree, but when I try to place several
> copies of the tree around on my height field the scene becomes so
> complicated (~140000+ frame level objects) even without foliage on the
> trees. Does anyone know how I can make simple trees that look realistic so
> they can be used for my forest project?

You can build and export "tomtrees" as meshes with POV-Tree a very nice 
tool from Gena Obukhov:

http://propro.iis.nsk.su/go/Wshop/tools/tools.html

So you can combine the complex trees of the tomtree macro with the speed 
of mesh rendering.

Hope that helps,

Bonsai

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