Create an Ivy Covered Tree Stump with 3ds Max, Ivy Gen, and VRay

Create an Ivy Covered Tree Stump with 3ds Max, Ivy Gen, and VRay

on Nov 2nd 2010 with 83 comments
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This entry is part 3 of 12 in the Best of 3D Studio Max – Part 1 Session
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In this quick and easy tutorial, we will use 3ds Max, VRay, and a free plugin called GW:Ivy to create a highly detailed ivy covered tree stump scene. For those of you who are beginners out there…don’t be intimidated! When you are finished you will say “I can’t believe how easy that was!”.

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My name is Sachin Joshi and I am from Nepal. I am a Lead Artist specializing in compositing and FX for my company "IRAS"(Incessant Rain Animation Studio). My main tools are 3ds Max and After Effects, and I'm planning to learn NUKE within a few months. You can visit my blog here at sachinmanjoshi.blogspot.com.  

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  • Ben

    Awsome! where did you find the bark textures??????

    • mmar

      Google for it man ^^
      there are many hires textures
      and the bump/displ. you can do with photoshop

  • Ant Gray

    I found that it possible to use gwIvy not only for plants, but also for some crazy things.

  • richcassy

    great tutorial . . . very beautiful one. . . but i got stock when i got to the creeping plants bcos my leaves were coming ad untextured black boxes . . . .. going through the comments section, i realised some people are have also been going through the same with no solution. . . i searched the internet and got no solution on it. . . anyways i decided to dedicate almost 16hrs to this and VOILA , i got the solution . . . here it is. . .

    FOR THOSE WITH LEAVES COMING AS UNTEXTURED BLACK BOXES. . . all you have to do is when starting 3dstudio max, RUN AS AN ADMINISTRATOR. . . and the boxes would come as leaves. . VOILA!!! simple isnt it. . .
    ………………d’ nigerian…………………

    • John Bon

      Thanks man. I was having the same problem. WTF!

    • Anum

      Thanks alot! It helped!!

  • Karan@2010

    thanks a lot for sharing…. i lyk it
    give me more tutorials

  • Hugo

    Brilliantly amazing. :):):)

  • Ben

    Going back to old tutorials is a nice way of saying “we dont have anything new for you”

    • Mathaeis

      Honestly, it’s not like a magazine where people might not have access to the old stuff at any time. I appreciate the free content (probably a lot more than a lot of the other people that comment, whining endlessly), but there is a point where things are becoming at least slightly bleaker. Premium content, for instance, was not supposed to replace any content that non-premium users were already getting, but I’m pretty sure the last few Fridays haven’t had anything BUT the premium post (not to mention one of the recent video posts was free somewhere else?). So now we are down to 4 days a week, except twice a month where we get 3 days a week plus a recycled one?

      Again, I realize a site needs money to continue thriving and all that, but if the content it drying up, what’s the point of anyone keeping up with it?

    • Rhino D’Octo

      Oh come on… Awesome tutorials will always be awesome, maybe slightly outdated, but still awesome. And revisiting an old post is a good way for reminding of the great content here, on CG tuts.

      • Mathaeis

        Sorry, I have an attention span and don’t mind clicking back through older posts when I’m looking for more information or potentially awesome tutorials. If this thing is so radical, why not just give it a permanent place on the front page of the site and never post anything new? Seriously – they can create a ‘best of’ section or something, there’s no reason to go back 24 times a year to old posts, especially when this site isn’t even that old.

        I’m grateful for the free content, and when I have time to devote I would like to dive into the premium stuff, so it’s not like I don’t appreciate what’s here. But they have slacked off in what they promised (again, in their responses to people complaining about losing content because of premium, etc.) and haven’t held up what they originally said was going to go on.

  • Alvin Yong

    i’ve downloaded the ivy plug-ins from guruware.it but the problem is, after i pressed “grow”, it doesn’t have the texture of leaf instead of a black square. How can i solve this issue? Any help would be appreciated~

  • gyanendra

    hey sachin,

    just managed to watch this tutorial…awsome dude….it would be very helpful for my next exterior project..ivy….m going to have bit of study on that….by the this tut aready explains a lot…thanx man

  • azam malik

    thanks to make it so easy i want to learn more

  • Mr Longman

    I had downloaded it but I couldn’t add this plug-in to 3d max. Can anyone help me ??

  • Sib

    I need the textures too please send it my way if u can : playersibs@gmail.com

    I’ve been searching for days!

  • http://www.think360studio.com/ Taylor

    excellent amazing :)

  • http://gods-of-art.com S3bY

    Wow..this looks so realistic!

  • nice !

    but i have a problem, i cant see any leafes when i render my model

  • http://www.ordinarymagic.com Peter Plantec

    Sachin, you did a great job for your first video tutorial. It’s not even your first language! You gave me a coupla of tricks and tips that are very helpful. I hope you do more tutorials. Very thorough and understandable. Thank you.

  • tom

    Thank you for the project files, it works. Except one thing, the vrayzdepth in render element, it says the file is missing, where can i get one?

  • sorry

    amazing thank u for sharing this video to learn us

  • Milan

    hey!, when I generate the Ivy, i Just got black cubes and t wont render… help plz?

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