Maximizing AEC Foliage Capabilities

For newbies and alike:

3d Max has a lot to offer in terms of creating entourage. Even wtihout those expensive plugins and trees model, you can create one for your own - its just inside your 3d max. With just some little effort you can have those natures beaty on your renderings.

When i was new in 3d max, i was disapointed too with the AEC foliage. When i put it on the scene, i have those bright colored trees and branches. But now i just realized, they are just giving us some efforts to work on our own, to create composition out of it. And they are right, it was there for some purpose.

In here, i created some small steps to maximize the usage of 3D Max AEC Foliage. AEC foliage system can be access on Creating and Modifying Panel of 3d max. For this one i choose the Banyan Tree.



And this is a sample render with its default materials


The foliage when drop on the scene have its own default material and can be accessed by selecting one empty slot then press get material. (see image reference). Or take the eeydropper tools and select the trees. This will automatically take the materials of your aec object.



All of its material component are listed in the following manner.



For the leaves, i just provide a gradient ramp, so i have leaves color variation, and for the trunks i just look for some bark images for the bumps and perlin marble ( 3d max procedural maps) for the diffuse map.



Then i drag to copy that trunk material for the branches



In order to have a nice shade of leaves, just copy the tree and adjust the parameters by unticking the branches, roots and trunks, leaving only the leaves. Then rotate it a bit. See the image below just like what i do to some of my pine tree foliage



And this one now the result of the new composited material



and the vray rendered



With these, you can even create your own libraries of foliage.

wow galeng sir kala ko ganun lang yung foliage hehehe

Sir napakanda nitong turo nyo, salamat ng marami

abay maganda pala din yun..ma try nga minsan.

Shukran again master

astig ang tutorial for refining AEC..

i also used this nung nagstart pa ako scanline p nun..

magandang pamalit sa huge trees ng ever pag walang available,,

ayos galing sir....! thanks again!

ang galing salamat po sa information sir. matry nga to

maraming salamat sa info sir. malaking tulong po ito sa akin. galing talaga ng mga tao dito. nakakabilib!

-nice tut again sir!
--salamat ng marami!

nice tutorials....

salamat sir ronel!!!simply the best!!!

HELP MGA MASTER, TRY KO SYA PERO IBA OUTPUT, PANO ILAGAY UNG MATERIAL DU N SA TREE NA IBA KULAY NG TUNKS, LEAVES AT BRANCHES, KC NUNG IDRAG KO UNG MATERIAL SA TREE IISA KULAY NILA. HINDI GAYA NUNG NASA OUTPUT MO SIR.

roycristobal wrote:HELP MGA MASTER, TRY KO SYA PERO IBA OUTPUT, PANO ILAGAY UNG MATERIAL DU N SA TREE NA IBA KULAY NG TUNKS, LEAVES AT BRANCHES, KC NUNG IDRAG KO UNG MATERIAL SA TREE IISA KULAY NILA. HINDI GAYA NUNG NASA OUTPUT MO SIR.

review the process and dont use all capital letter.

Ok po master, salamat po

nice tutorials sir render master...malaking tulong ito...salamat po na marami..

gandang tutorial nagamit ko na ito base sa youtube tutorial pero mas detailed itong gawa mo sir thanks

Yehey!salamat may bago na naman akong natutunan

Thank's po render master!