Is there a way to change the attributes/texture/colour/etc of an item in
TreeDesigner just once and have it follow the heirarchy from trunk to leaf?
I.E. I'm using the example tree and want to change all the leaves to another
leaf type, or change the colour of the branches and limbs to a different
texture. I've looked the help file over and seem to be missing something.

Lue Ebra
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Lue Ebra wrote in message <36f4a1f1.0@news.povray.org>...
>Is there a way to change the attributes/texture/colour/etc of an item in
>TreeDesigner just once and have it follow the heirarchy from trunk to leaf?
>I.E. I'm using the example tree and want to change all the leaves to
another
>leaf type, or change the colour of the branches and limbs to a different
>texture. I've looked the help file over and seem to be missing something.


Like this:

If you want to change the leaf-type for the whole model, use the "Global
Leaftype" command in the "Tree" menu.
This changes *all* leaves to a new type.

If you want to be more specific (e.g. change only the color of branches, or
only the color of leaves, or only the color of *some* branches, or only the
type of the leaves on *some* brances but not on others etc.) use "Modify
Branch" in the "Tree" menu like this:

First select the limb you want to start working from, then select "Modify
Branch".
In the dialog that opens, you have the choice of setting the properties for

- the active (selected) limb only
- the whole branch starting with the active (selected) limb (but not the
sidebranches, and not the limbs before the selected limb)
- the whole branch starting with the active (selected) limb, including all
sidebranches (and their sidebranches etc.) (but not the limbs/branches
before the selected limb).

Then you mark the properties you want to change on that branch/limb by
checking the respective checkbox and you define what change you wanna make.

It's that easy!

You can find more info in the documentation, only one click away from the
documentation homepage:

Open the Documentation by selecting "Help" from the "Help" menu.
On the first page, in the rightmost column you will see a section "Dialogs",
with some second-level links in a smaller font. The last one of those
second-level links reads "Modify Branch" and will lead you directly to a
description of the dialog I wrote about above.

So long,
Johannes.

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Hey, Johannes-

I know this is a bit offtopic, but I am wondering- do you ever propose support
for lsystems as used in Lparser 4.0? I like their simplicity, and text based
interface. If you just added a variable for leaves(with some way to modify the
leaftype), then it would be a perfect combination of the two.

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I must admit that I don't know much about the LParser language in
particular. Is it equally cryptic as the standard L-System approach with
strings like AAB[BBB]AA[[AA]]BB etc. ?
Well, actually, yesterday under the shower (I do a lot of my creative
thinking there ;-), I *did* ponder about adding a text-script import for
L-Systems to TreeDesiger, to appeal to those people who would rather like to
program their L-Systems, instead of putting them together in the current
editor. Adding support for the L-Parser language (or a subset of it)
shouldn't be to hard then, *if* I ever get around to do it :-(

Johannes.


Alex Magidow wrote in message <36F50D48.C288737C@mninter.net>...
>Hey, Johannes-
>
>I know this is a bit offtopic, but I am wondering- do you ever propose
support
>for lsystems as used in Lparser 4.0? I like their simplicity, and text
based
>interface. If you just added a variable for leaves(with some way to modify
the
>leaftype), then it would be a perfect combination of the two.
>
>
>

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You see, the power of Lsystems is that you can make fabulous trees, in just a
little bit of programming(19000 objects with 7 lines!). I personally am a very
visual person, but for some reason I find your approach to lsystems confusing.
The advantage of your program is the great export, and the leaves(Of, how nice
it would be to have leaves on my trees! No more winter scenes!) So, a good meld
of the two-Lparser and Treedesigner would be great.

PS- Its not just the format of your lsystems that I have a problem with- its the
weird l-rotation and that stuff- in lparser, you just have ^&+-. Forward, back,
right, left. Very simple. To rotate around the axis, you have < and >. To create
a string, you just do something like: A=+F+F+F+F-F. From then on, you can have A
represent that object, anywhere in your picture.

Johannes Hubert wrote:

> I must admit that I don't know much about the LParser language in
> particular. Is it equally cryptic as the standard L-System approach with
> strings like AAB[BBB]AA[[AA]]BB etc. ?
> Well, actually, yesterday under the shower (I do a lot of my creative
> thinking there ;-), I *did* ponder about adding a text-script import for
> L-Systems to TreeDesiger, to appeal to those people who would rather like to
> program their L-Systems, instead of putting them together in the current
> editor. Adding support for the L-Parser language (or a subset of it)
> shouldn't be to hard then, *if* I ever get around to do it :-(
>
> Johannes.
>
> Alex Magidow wrote in message <36F50D48.C288737C@mninter.net>...
> >Hey, Johannes-
> >
> >I know this is a bit offtopic, but I am wondering- do you ever propose
> support
> >for lsystems as used in Lparser 4.0? I like their simplicity, and text
> based
> >interface. If you just added a variable for leaves(with some way to modify
> the
> >leaftype), then it would be a perfect combination of the two.
> >
> >
> >



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