First sectionĬreate a new path and name it „Trunk“. Move it to the origin (right click on each of the axis' spinner arrows on the bottom of your screen to set them to zero). Click and drag a GrowFX object/icon into your viewport. You can move your tree into your original scene later as soon as you finished it. GrowFX generates extremely realsitic trees and plants, which leads to lots of polygons and may slow down 3D Studio Max a lot. A section is called „path“ in GrowFX terms. GrowFX splits these three parts into three seperated windows: Distributors path, Modify direction and Mesh parameters. Appearance (How does the section look like?).Behaviour (How does the section behave?).Source (Where do the section elements grow from?).Every section – regardless which one - can be split up into three parts: For example it starts with roots forming the trunk, which has some branches, which have some smaller branches on which there grow some leafes. Indeed, it is a lot easier if you understand the basic concept. GrowFX seems to be really complicated when you try to make your first tree from scratch.

6Jul/12 0 GrowFX 1.8.6 tutorial Understanding the basics

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