tree-gen

Procedural generation of tree models in blender

Read the write up here.

I'd love to develop this into a fully usable blender plugin but don't currently have the time, if anyone would like to I'd very much support this.

If you want to try out the code as is:

• Copy ch_trees into the blender addons folder (.../blender.app/Contents/Resources/2.78/scripts/addons on mac)
• Restart blender
• Start a new blend file and in the text editor panel open .../ch_trees/parametric/gen.py or .../ch_trees/lsystems/treegen.py
• Uncomment the final few lines including construct(...)
• Run the script (it will take a few seconds, or more, to generate the tree so don't worry if blender appears to freeze - if you open blender through the command line then you can track the progress)
• You can change the quaking_aspen bit inside construct(...) to generate different types of trees - see .../parametric/tree_params and .../lsystems/sys_defs for available presets. You can also edit/create new tree types.

(apologies for such a protracted process, this is why I'd love to incorporate it into an actual plugin - hopefully I or someone else will get around to this soon)

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License