Island Gardens Miami

This slideshow shows how I worked up an image for our Island Gardens marina project in Miami. You can see an alternate version here.

More Trees

This is one of the four centres of the Madinat Al Hareer in Kuwait. The trees in the parks are positioned according to the Landscape AutoCAD plan, below, using the Clone & Align tool in Max. The trees along the roads are arrayed using the Spacing tool. The other trees are painted into position using G-Tools Planter. If you try the Particle Flow method, look at this thread for a script from Bobo which will speed up the process.

Particle Flow Island

I made this as an example of how to distribute Vray Proxy trees using Particle Flow and some cool scripts. This PDF illustrates the main steps;
-Painting over a top-down render to create distribution maps for trees and bushes.
-Using Tuomas Jomppanen's script to replace each particle with a dummy object.
-Randomly dividing the dummy objects into named selection sets.
-Clone & Aligning various species of Vray Proxy Flora to each selection set.
-Randomly scaling / rotating them using Marc Florestant's script.
I demonstrated this a year ago at the London 3ds Max User Group so since then I've thought of various ways to streamline the proccess. I've also started to use GroundWiz which is great fun. Someone always says "great boats!"... We bought them.