I just aquired Povtree and Tomtree and am quite pleased with the generated
trees.
There is one problem though. not too often do you see just one tree all
alone,  except in some parts of Montana. I have tried everything to make
more trees. I have copied the entire lines calling the tree. And I have put
the call in a #declare statement and used object{Mytree}.
nothing will result in more than one tree. Can anyone tell me how to make a
forest  or even a grove, etc? Thank you.

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If your trees will be in the distance it would be worth Googling for 
MeshTree  It produces low memory trees built of triangles.  I 'v e used to 
it a number of times.

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Wasn't it MontanaSteve who wrote:
>I just aquired Povtree and Tomtree and am quite pleased with the generated
>trees.
>There is one problem though. not too often do you see just one tree all
>alone,  except in some parts of Montana. I have tried everything to make
>more trees. I have copied the entire lines calling the tree. And I have put
>the call in a #declare statement and used object{Mytree}.
>nothing will result in more than one tree. Can anyone tell me how to make a
>forest  or even a grove, etc? Thank you.

Perhaps you've managed to achieve multiple trees, but they're all placed
at exactly the same location and therefore look like one tree. Add a
different translate for each copy of the tree. Adding a rotate and a
scale wouldn't hurt if you want to try to disguise the fact that the
trees are identical.

object {MyTree}
object {MyTree scale <1,1.2,1> rotate <0,27,0> translate <2,0,0>}
object {MyTree scale <1.2,1,1.1> rotate <0,73,0> translate <-2,0,1>}

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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"MontanaSteve" <swh### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> I just aquired Povtree and Tomtree and am quite pleased with the generated
> trees.
> There is one problem though. not too often do you see just one tree all
> alone,  except in some parts of Montana. I have tried everything to make
> more trees. I have copied the entire lines calling the tree. And I have put
> the call in a #declare statement and used object{Mytree}.
> nothing will result in more than one tree. Can anyone tell me how to make a
> forest  or even a grove, etc? Thank you.

Thank you all for your advice. I was translating and rotating. However, the
problem was that I was working with the sample file that came with Tomtree.
I did not take into account that the scale was 1000 and the camera was at
something like -1600*z. After changeing these parameters I did indeed have
more than one tree.

And again, I thank you.

Steve

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