I'm not happy with it.

I feel it uses too many triangles and looks unnatural and messy.

But i want your opinion.

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

That's the best jk tree I've ever seen period.

Just take some of the extra long pieces and move the excess to the sparser places.

Juice Meter
|-----------------------------------| x (tree is here)

THE JUICE METER IS OFF TEH SCALE!

I have to agree with Vedder on this one...

The question is, will it look this good in-game, or will all the transparencies be buggy as crap?

any leaf/branch you see that is translucent in milkshape will be solid in jk.

I was just playing around with alpha blending translucence in milkshape that would be helpful to know on less crap engines.

The advantage to this tree in jk, is that all the branches use very high res textures, and the clipping between invisible black and solid green would be tiny.

Disadvantages would be low framerate.

But this would be the HIGHEST LOD tree, only visible in this form within.... 0.5 jku's or such? trees beyond 3 or jkus would be only 4 polygons, so i can create a realistic outside environment.

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

OMG, I love it!!!

Best. JK. Tree. Ever.

that's freakin awesome.. suggestion though.. You might make wooden branches coming out at certain parts. As it is, the trunk doesn't seem to intigrate well with the foliage. I don't know if that would be possible with JK limitations, but something to play around with, perhaps.

600 to 4? Quite a big jump in quality

It already looks really good, but giving it some three-dimensional branches would probably help improve its realism. As it is, the flatness of the various branches is pretty apparent.

Nice work, Ruth.

It looks really good, but I'd like to see it in a level.

Real trees are hardly perfect, but yours looks like an ugly natural tree. I'd make it a little more uniform, a little more "picture perfect" like. Also, you should make several variations so they don't all look the same. Changing height and width would be a great way to start. You can XYZ scale for simple variation, or emphasized on XY for a thinner tree. Scaling only on the Z axis will probably just make it look fat.

Also, Ruth, didn't you have some problem with your Stargate mod where your effects took up too many things?

this tree would only be one thing or 2.

The mod effects, like staff weapon bolts and smoke and explosions can create upto 100 things at once.

But if I could make these levels, and someone else makes an installer program, that would also add the "No-Thing-Limit-Patch" files into jk, as well as the level gob and mod gob, then.... no worries!!!


As for the so called "BIG LEAP" in lod detail, i meant this:

within 0.5 jku's the high poly tree would be used (also with a cog that makes the tree affected by damage) using 300-600 polys or so.

< 1 jku's & > 0.5 jku's, tree = 150 polys.

< 2 jku's & > 1 jku's, tree = 50 polys.

< 4 jku's & > 2 jku's, tree = 20 polys.

> 4 jku's 4-8 polies.


These distances and polies are only an estimate.

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Trees are hard to get looking realistic in even modern engines it seems. Thats pretty good I think. The up close shot looks excellent, although I agree adding three dimensions to the branches would be very nice there as the flatness is pretty apparent...although not horrible by any means.

Something strikes me as a bit odd about the further back shot, but I can't really put my finger on what it is.

I just wrote a simple COG which calculates the remaining available things in the level and stores it in a bin. In your effect COGs you could scale the effect depending on how many things are left.

I'll judge this tree based on an ingame pic. HINT HINT

and Ruth, I like the messiness/non-symmetry of it.

I'd hang decorations on it.

even thos already said:

BEST. JK Tree >EVER

Just distribute the JK patcher program with the SG mod. It wouldn't add much to the file size. This one does the adjoin limit too. http://www.jkhub.net/download/index.php?dlid=53

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I guess I should also mention that TDiR also uses the No Thing Limit patch's capibilities with more things for beam tails, and spiffy looking 3do particle effects. However, I have the launcher specifically programed to apply the patch to JK.exe upon running the launcher and rpessing the Play TDiR Button. If you're looking for ease of installation and applying the patch, a batch file that moves the files and runs the patcher program could be enough.
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I like it very much.

Wundervoll.

I actually kind of like it without wooden branches...makes it evergreen-y. I still can see why you might want some; it's your call.

Pretty ^_^ like it very much

I'd hit it. >.> <.<

I like it, but farther up there's too many spaces where there are no limbs/leaves or whatever that it looks like someone chopped off an entire branch.