useful curved tree line

[olishea]

Tree line PNGs that I projected to a curved surface. Good to fill out your model background. Renders well.

I meticulously deleted all the sky from around the tree leaves and saved in render-friendly PNG.

Cheers

SAMPLE SKETCHUP VIEW:

TEST RENDERS:

Due to a recent episode of theft, these tree lines will now only appear in the SketchUcation shop. Somebody has decided to distribute my work on their website without permission.

While these tree lines were made as a gift to the SketchUcation community, people have taken advantage and used this product to gain more hits on their own websites. The tree lines have been downloaded tens of thousands of times.

Nobody asked me permission to distribute and host my work, I was never even credited as the author.

The person involved even made a "Part 2" to my curved tree lines, again, without permission. The "Part 2" is of inferior quality with substandard masking. I do not want to be associated with that website or the "Part 2" collection of tree lines that I did not create or condone. The "Part 2" was made to look like I had produced them, using the exact same presentation, fonts, colours etc. However, this is where the similarities end. I believe it is deceiving to the community to release this "Part 2" because of the vastly inferior quality. I do not want my reputation to be tarnished by such inadequate work.

So...

1) The only places where you should ever see my tree lines are in the SketchUcation shop and in the Podium Browser.

2) If anyone sees my work elsewhere, please notify me immediately and I will be very thankful.

3) If anyone would like to distribute and host my work, please just ask. It only takes a minute.

Sorry to make a post that highlights this theft problem, but I can't tolerate someone taking advantage of my good nature.

Thanks and take care,

Oliver Shea

[dlauch]

Great background, Thanks for sharing. The png is also useful for a background layer in photoshop.

[olishea]

haha no worries!

Remember you can scale the curved face so it can be as curvy/flat as you want it to be!

[Rich O Brien]

Nice gesture Oli, much appreciated

[massimo]

Thanks Oli.

[rangerrick]

Thanks, Oliver. Should come in handy

Rick

[nektares]

Thanks!

[olishea]

no worries guys!!I will post some more when I have finished making them.

5 thank yous and 73 downloads!!

[TIG]

5 thank yous and 73 downloads!!

Join the club... if I got a 'dollar' [or even a 'thank you'!] for every ruby that I wrote that's been downloaded from here...

Oh yeah... thanks - good idea

[jsmith]

thanks - great for sketchup and photoshop backgrounds!

[tallbridgeguy]

Thanks X 74! (Thanks Oli and Thanks TIG!)

TBG

[dermotcoll]

Cheers Oli,
Someday soon I hope to use it in a render!!! I will be looking some guidance so keep your ears peeled!!

[dale]

Downloaded, and I was working with your treeline in Thea. Clip map worked perfectly, and it was just what I needed for the scene.
Thanks, I really appreciate this.

[Frederik]

Thanks for sharing this, Oli...

[olishea]

No worries guys. Like I said, I will post some more when I have made them.

I'm glad it worked out for you Dale

Yeah, cool Dermot looking forward to it. remember you can layer these PNGs so you can have loads of other trees in front of this tree line.

It's supposed to be used to ambiguously fill out the background really.

[rickgraham]

Thanks Oli! I think I can make use of this in some upcoming projects.

Rick

[olishea]

Good Stuff!

Here is another one:

TREE LINE 2:

SKETCHUP VIEW

TEST RENDER:

[boofredlay]

Thanks Oli.

[TIG]

Thanks again...

[MtnArch]

Thanks for both, Oli!

[massimo]

Thank you very much for the gifts.

[alpro]

Thanks Oli

[EarthMover]

Very Nice Oli. Thanks bro..this will be very useful!

[olishea]

its all good! and thank you earth mover for your scf plants. very kind of you.

[dale]

The patience you have taken to clip the little holes through the trees really makes a difference. Thanks again.

[dylan]

Thanks Oli, these are fantastic. I will try one out on a project this weekend.

[solo]

Quick Vue treeline, in .png.

[Alan Fraser]

Nice work Oli. In a similar vein, I've been using the planetarium program, Stellarium, for quite a while. One of its features is that it displays the sky from a realistic ground perspective...by using 360° panoramas. There's a whole bunch of them here, which have been submitted by users. They are all either single pngs or a group of 8 that butt together, so can be easily stitched. They all have the sky already removed (so you can see the stars, obviously), so will work fine in SU using its ready made graded sky.

[olishea]

ah I see alan. some have halos around trees though which is a shame. great link though, vast resource. gonna have a play with some now.

The patience you have taken to clip the little holes through the trees really makes a difference

I just used a leaf brush in photoshop with high scatter. no exact science to it really. just quick and dirty! I will make a few more.

good one pete

[Alan Fraser]

It's probably best to leave the groups of 8 as separate images and also chop up the single images...because of the havoc wrought by SU's OpenGL on imported images larger tham 1024.