large landscape ancient rome

[vgd]

Hi need to realize some ancient Roman houses animations with large landscape, with mountains, many many trees.

The animations starts from man height to aerial view. I can't use 2 simple cross planes with tree texture and alpha, because from aerial view, the trees are no realistics and are very flat.

I think to use Placer Deposit plugin but it cause a scene with many polygons and long time render with GI and Photons.

Any alternative idea?

Vue integration need for future upgrade...

[Tomas Egger]

Ola VGD,

This is a trick done by Cristóbal Vila, the only problem, the tutorial is in Spanish, its a Visual Tutorial.

take a look:

http://www.etereaestudios.com/training_img/bosque100polys/bosque100polys.htm

Thanks

Tom

[joseph56]

Very cool article.

You can use google translate and save the web page out.

It translates 90 percent of it except for some of the images.

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Joseph,

Cristóbal have excellent EIAS tutorials.. really visual.

If VGD not use Camera extremely from the top, the trick will work perfectly with a amazing fast render.

Thanks

Tom

[RichardJoly]

This is one of my favorite Cristóbal's tutorials. He is a master of his art and an excellent teacher and communicator.

This little animation was made with his technique:

http://www.rdnmultimedia.com/eias/RPC_Trees.mov

Here is the collect to get you started:

http://www.rdnmultimedia.com/eias/RPC_Trees_Collect.zip

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Rick,

Thanks a lot

Tom

[vgd]

I will try this technique soon.

I hope in the next future a develop plugin for EIAS like http://www.itoosoft.com/