Ground cover in Rp tree maker

Hi, i would like to use ground cover in Rp tree maker. I read before that it isnt working. Does it work these days? I tried to use diffrent ways which i found here (help desk), but i didnt work.

Do you know how to make ground cover to wrok?

(apologise my english)

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 12, 2011 at 8:29am

There is no way to make it work in RpTreemaker right now.

We need to write a routine to make an image from the ground cover and then use that image as a texture for a material, so that you could see the ground cover in SketchUp by applying that material to a surface, but we haven't done that yet.

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Permalink Reply by Michaela Nadherova on September 12, 2011 at 3:02pm

Thank you for answer.

1. So, why there is Groundcover choice in rptreemaker menu, when you click new?

2. In your product section rptreemaker detail there is explanation how to make ground cover.

3. Will be groundcover in next version?

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 12, 2011 at 3:31pm

In our IRender nXt product, the nXt developers gave us a tool to create trees which would render in IRender nXt as fractal 3D trees, with many leaves etc., instead of just a flat image. We also used that tool to create RpTreeMaker, as a free application, using the trees that that program generates, to create the flat tree components that we place in SketchUp. Later the nXt developer added Ground Cover to the same tool, so it's a choice in the program now, but will not work as a tree.

In IRender nXt you can assign the Gound Covers to a surface as an object property, to be used in the rendering, but they do not appear in the SketchUp drawing. The procedure to do that is explained here:

http://www.renderplus.com/wk/Ground_Cover_w.htm

I cannot guarantee that ground covers will be added to RpTreeMaker, but perhaps, if we get time.

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Permalink Reply by Michaela Nadherova on September 13, 2011 at 4:02am

I bought iRender nXt, so it will work in it? Thank you very much a i ll try that link and write my result

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Permalink Reply by Michaela Nadherova on September 13, 2011 at 5:52am

I used Irender nxt and procedure from link you have posted http://www.renderplus.com/wk/Ground_Cover_w.htm.

But it is not working

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 13, 2011 at 8:12am

It seems to have quit working in the latest version. I'll fix it and post a new version.

Until I get it posted, you can do this:

Run RpTreemaker, by clicking on the file C:\Program Files\Render Plus Systems\IRender_nXt\bin_Nxt\nXtPlantEditor.exe or C:\Program Files (x86)\Render Plus Systems\IRender_nXt\bin_Nxt\nXtPlantEditor.exe

Save a ground cover as a file, it will have a .ArGroundcover extension.

Then use the IRender Object properties dialog to load that groundcover for a surface. That still works.