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Grass extension is great. I would love the same for trees and plants: a light and powerfool tool. (Something different from importing meshed trees and attach a leave texture). With some kind of "light-3d-shape mode" for plugins.

PD. Meanwhile, what software do you usually use for that purpose?

it's already there with referenced MXS files

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/ma ... +MXS+files

numerobis wrote:it's already there with referenced MXS files

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/ma ... +MXS+files

That looks great, thanks! on the other hand, is not the "tree creator" I was wishing for christmas

Hi guys,

The referenced MXI feature was created for purposes like those: cloning thousands of objects like trees, stones or so, without imparting the Ram.

But a tree generator is a feature that is out of the Maxwell scope: It would add a lot of complexity related to botanics bundles and species creation, won't be usable for all platforms (only the ones with strongest SDK would allow the generation of procedural trees), and even more important, we would be entering a field where there is already other softwares that are doing that for years and very well.

So, we believe that dealing with species, complex grow routines (while creating them in a physically correct way) and so would be the field for other softwares specifically created for that (and after that a terrain generator would also come).
Maxwell will stay downstream and try to render that geometry when possible.

Greetings

Dario Lanza
Render expert

it's a shame but understandable.

Two quick and easy questions:
- Does referenced objects allows rotation and scaling?
- It seems to me that is not working for Rhino, is it?

Thanks!

edion86 wrote:it's a shame but understandable.

Two quick and easy questions:
- Does referenced objects allows rotation and scaling?
- It seems to me that is not working for Rhino, is it?

Thanks!

Yes, you can rotate and scale references and proxies of references. Not sure about Rhino.

You can use mxs files like proxies in vray. In maxwell studio for me is missing something like modifier to scatter this mxs .... one say you can do this in rhino, blender, maya etc. but f.e. in archicad there is no option like this.