Fruit-Bearing Trees
Vueiy
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I know Predatron has a few, but I think they're cherries and maybe a small, potted citrus (orange?), but I need some fruit-bearing trees for my orchard! I'm honestly surprised there aren't any out there yet. I tried modeling some myself, but I'm not too good yet, and they looked weird (but were sufficient at the time, since they were relegated to the background and blurred by DoF, lol). I made them in Bryce, exported them as an object, and slapped 'em in the background.
My thoughts on making one (should I ever get good enough at modeling, or have the time for it) were to make generic sphere clusters for a tree, with multiple shaping morphs, and different leaf and bark textures for the trees. That way you could load a tree, possibly load the fruit separate (both clusters for trees and a separate, single object), then select the morph and mats for what you want. So, for example, an apple morph, lemon, pomegranate, etc. Obviously, stuff like a banana tree would make more sense to be a different model, since they're shaped significantly differently, but I think a large variety of fruit could be supported by the generic sphere shape with transmapped leaves on the trees and different bark settings. You could even throw a few alien morphs/mats in there or maybe as an add-on.
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https://www.daz3d.com/tangy-apple-orchard
Billboard trees ( for background trees https://www.daz3d.com/xfrogplants-billboards-fruit
Thanks! I feel like I'd seen the Apple Orchard before, but I had some weird glitch happen to my wishlist where over half of it randomly vanished one day. It was over 10,000 items (I know, I know), but somehow, inexplicably got whittled down to around 3,000, without me doing anything to it. I guess that was one of the items that vanished. As for the billboard trees, those are nice, but I do kind of need something that can be picked. I can't tell from the images, but it says the res is 800x800, which unfortunately probably wouldn't do too well in a closeup render, even if I just used fruit models from some other product for the fruit being picked. Thanks for the reminder about the orchard, though!
One of the long standing freebies at Xfrog is a peach tree....
http://xfrog.com/product/FR16.html
It's a fully modeled tree.
One of the things about the Xfrog textures is you may have to invert the transparency/alpha maps.