Dryad

Dryad…Is an example of a potentially good program made crap by its insistence on having an open connection to the internet.

It’s free 3d tree-creation software. It can only save in .OBJ format, which is not really a problem, but it insists on uploading created trees to its server – there is no option not to.

Block Dryad with your firewall? You can try – if you want to crash the program.

Maybe I’m missing something?

Well, it *is* ‘free’ software… I’d rather pay a few bucks than have this forced internet connection nonsense.

Anyone else tried it?

"nawi" beat you to it: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=75160

It does not only upload trees, but also download new trees, as the FAQ states. So basicly there's a lot of traffic behind the scene. Not really the thing I like.

BTW if you need trees, how about our old open source project, simple tree creator. Mod the source as you want. These trees are however created with a single mouseclick:




http://www.melog.ch/dl/simple_tree_creator_2007.zip

I forgot about "jfk's" tree creator - it's very good.

I use TreeMagik for my projects, but I'm always on the look-out for other tree creation software (free or otherwise).

JFK: I think I tried your tree creator ages ago, but like Puki I forgot about it. Will give it another shot later when I'm on my Windows system. Thanks.

woah, those trees are sweet! The light softly transfers from bright to dark on the trees, giving the appears of actually having billions of pines! How??

Billions of pines? The scene is lightmapped with gile[s]. The app (stc) is using a simple cone as the trunk, but you could also load a mesh. Each branch is made of a single quad (bended in the middle). A masked texture is applied. These are true low poly trees, about 60 Tris per tree only. The random branch algorithm is very simple and could be optimized a lot.