[article] Trees, From Far Away....

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How to make trees that line your landscape.

Not a very good tut..Its not THAT hard to figure this out.
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this is for NOOBS. I didn't now how to do this when i was a noob. (i'm still a NOOB)

I know

Nothing factually wrong with this, good visuals.

As a side note, and please don't take this the wrong way - I know you're eager to see what people have to say, but it seems in poor taste to respond to your own tut more often than others do.

isnt it better to make it a func_illusionary and put a clip brush
so you can shoot through it.

Bear in mind the texture wil have to remain consistent in where the tree starts and ends in the middle of the texture for the thickness of brush you're using. Otherwise you will have a very strange looking tree...!

i give it a 3 but where do u get tree textures?

Not too bad for newbies, but i prefer the good old sprite + clip brush trees. It deserves a 3.

i hate to point out that the tree will have invisable sides due to this method, and the thickness of the brushes, i believe having 4 brushes, the meet in the center of the formed "X" and then morphing the ends so they come to a point (having 4 really thin triangles in a "X" form) would probabley look better

It explains what it set out to do well, though I must admit there are a couple of points you could have touched up, maybe a final result picture, and more spaces to make the whole tutorial look more clean. Cleaner tutorials are easier to understand ones.

I don't think it's good tut, there isnt a brush under the tree. The textures you used doesnt have any 'noob' so they simply cant make the tree, another thing this isnt a good way to make a tree, in your tut you just explained how to make a + brush, but try again sometime
PS Maybe I am gonna write some tuts but Im a buzy man :P

edit FX Amount: 255 (this tell the program to make the color 255, invisble in the game) : I think youre wrong :P (dont know for sure) that the '255' means that the last color in the palet of the texture is invisible..:S

No. The FX Value does not dictate which position in the pallette is made invisible, it is always the last position which is the chosen one.

Leave 'em alone, its his FIRST.

Im not shur but i think almost anyone can do this even a noob.

Everybody can make that, even i, but i don't have the tree's textures.

Just like the trees in crappy golf games for the pc.

MASTERMIND: a person with an outstanding intellect.

P.S good tut

That kind of tree would only work from a distance, for close trees you'll need to use a different method otherwise people will be saying "That's one hell of a crappy tree!". Otherwise it's pretty good.

I think that's why he called it "from far away"....