Create an Ivy Covered Tree Stump with 3ds Max, Ivy Gen, and VRay
Tutorial Details
- Completion Time: 1 - 2 hours
- Difficulty: Easy
- Software: 3ds Max, VRay
- Hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo processor (or newer); Recent (Geforge 8800 or newer) graphics card; 1g RAM (minimum)
- Supporting Files/ Plugins: Project Files; GW: Ivy
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Cgtuts+, and today we have an amazing 3Ds Max post by Sachin Joshi. This tutorial was first published in March 2010 and provided a a great look at a very useful plugin – GQ:Ivy! Let’s take a look…
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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great tut, thanks a lot!
tnx iam looking 4 this long
Great tutorial, very interesting, thanks you :)
hey nice tut…thanks a lot
Gud Job Bro !
one of the tutorial i was searching for …..daam great one
thank you
AWESOME ! KEEP IT UP >>> SACHIN WAYS
Very good. This is the first tutorial I have watched in a long time, and it was very good. Thank you.
Great job!! keep up the good work!
Very good tutorial. Anyone knows if there some plugin to make plants in Cinema 4D?
http://www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/products_cinema_4d.html
Download second plugin called “IvyGrower 1.1″ It’s the same plugin but built in to Cinema 4D. Try it.
were i find the plugin for 3d max 09` ??
In the folder
great 3d awesome job great work mr sachin
Thank you for your wonderful comments, guys,
btw link to the ivy plugin
http://www.guruware.at
Great Tutorial! :)
Nice tut, shame i can barely understand the voice :s
I downloaded the plug in and my plug in manager shows it as loaded but I cant find how to access it anywhere. It is not showing up in my my modifiers at all. Can anybody help me out?
Thanks in advance.
Tuts goood. Thanks for share
Hi Dave,
The plugin should be found under create panel drop down —->Guruware.
cheers
sachin
Great tutorial content only let down by the poor sound quality.
Interesting tutorial ! i want to download the plugin and try it !
Exlent
oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh…………… brother what a great tutorial…….. OK
Nice tutorial, realy handy…
Sachin,
Unfortunately it is not showing up there either. If you have any other suggestions I would appreciate it because it looks like a killer plug in.
Thanks
Dave
one of the great tut in cgtutplus.
awesome man. thanks for share.
hey Sachin bro..that’s one awesome tutorial you made there! thanks for share…
awesome tuts. thankx a lot for sharing such a wonderful tuts.
man,thank u very very much,that was an awsome tut,we need more tuts like this,
by the way, this tut cleared for me a lot of things that i wondered how they did it(in movies and commercials)……thanks again……
Awesome!good job……keep it up bro…..
awesome tut….thnx for the ivy gen link…i had this other ivy generator which was not integrated into max, which obviously meant that i had to go through alot of import/export….thnxxxxxx…..hope to see more in the future….
Great Tutorial i need some help about after Effects i cant erase that black article on the rendered photo can u help me m8?
Red Phalanx
can you elaborate your question, what do you mean by that black article!!!
My leaves are untextured. How did you get your out of the box to look like leaves.
Well Danny,
If you Pick Material from object from the Material Editor, there you will see the textures in you material slot
. GW ivy comes with default texture image name “_ivy_d.tga” with the opacity map.
I hope this will help your problem.
Cheers
Sachin
hi sachin ,great tutorial. but im having promblems rendering with the ivy its saying missing external files
ivy_d.tga
ivy_o.tga
can you help please. many thanks
awesome tuts..thank u very much dear
great tutorial, and this is my result
http://su3p4hfly.deviantart.com/art/Once-upon-a-time-158605481
This is the best tutorial i’ve seen… you are just gr8 sir
thanks a lot…!!
uhm… sorry… but am i the only one who has problems with the audio of this tutorial ?!
its sound intensity is way to low and if i make it louder i have this stupid noisy “peep” sound
i’d get headache if i were to watch the whole video
Sorry Sam,
Next time, I will make sure that the audio comes out better, Poor me, i just have the simple mic. haahah.
hello…
its me again…
i took the liberty to download this video and reduce the audio noise and make it a bit louder (the audio is now stereo too)
and thats the only thing i did to it so everything else is still the same
i hope its ok with you
here is the link to the modified video
http://club-anime.de/3d/Cg-tuts-Create_an_Ivy_Covered_Tree_Stump_with_3ds_Max,Ivy_Gen_and_VRay.flv
if you want i can do it for your next video too
as i’m still not good enough to create tutorial this is at least something i could do in return for these great free tutorials ^-^
Very good tutorial! It was very clear, all the tutorials should be like yours, I hope you post more
Great Tutorial!!!~
Very very good tutorial, thank you.
Gord gord! Thenk you for the tutoriel my frent
I have studio max 2010. I’m trying to grow the vines, but they’re these black planes when I’m done growing? Why don’t the leaves become leaves when I’m done?
excellent work thank you very much
Umm….How do i download this plugin? i dont have a plugin folder? =[
You have to run max as administrator by closing max if its open, right click run as administrator and reopen the file from within Max. Windows is retarded. Hopefully one day they will build Max on a stable operating system that works.
check out my other tutorials too
http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/realistic-fog-without-3rd-party-plug-ins/
Great tutorial!
But i’ve got the same problem, no textures on the leaves just black planes, no extra material in the Material Editor.
Any suggestions?
Cheers!
HI BART
I dont have any idea why your textures is missing, seems all fine to me, if you want the textures just pm me, i will send you the textures.
Hope that will help you.
with regards
Sachin
Great Tutorial man but I have encountered the same problem as Brittany
(I have studio max 2010. I’m trying to grow the vines, but they’re these black planes when I’m done growing? Why don’t the leaves become leaves when I’m done?
I just wan’t to know if you solved the problem & how coz I’ve looked all over the internet with no solutions.
If its not too much trouble could you please a email me the textures if you have them,I have found out its one of the missing items & also which folder do i put them in? my mail is lazzymusa@gmail.com
Thanks in Advance man
Tazz
Hi Sachin,
that would be perfect if U can send me the textures/materials to my email: bartoler1981@aim.com.
Kind Regards
Bart
Hi Sachin,
Thank You very much for ur help, really appreciate it!
but i’ve got one more problem, when using vray renderer, it renders but without the oppacity map (the leaf with green square background,
when render with mentalray, it works proper but without the tree obviously;)
propably i need to change some settings in vray?
Kind Regards,
Bart
Same proble here man, i used the plugin in a scene i already had and i only get black quads instead of leaves, works with mentalray but don’t wanna re-material all with mr materials,
so what would be the problem?????
tnx iam looking 4 this long thanks