Less detailed trees

[aksupi (Pinaraksu1993)]

Hello everyone,

I need to use trees for my city model. Unfortunately the trees are very detailed. I need to use so many trees and the software gets slower when the size of the trees are big. Is there a way to convert them into a less detailed version?

What would you recommend?

Best regards,

Pinar

[walther (Andreas Walther)]

Hi Pinar, look here:

Wish: viewport proxies for blocks

Hallo, as I am often working on very large and heavy scenes, I experience display performance problems on a regular basis. In 90 % of the scenes It is not the actual architecture (I do visualizations for buildings) but the accessories like cars, trees and people which cause the impact. I already try play every trick i know of, but here is one thing that really would be a game changer for me: Please make it possible to define a optical placeholder (display proxy) for a block, this way we could…

I have the same problem … you can create a custom view mode (“invisible”) where you turn of the meshes visibility, then use SetObjectDisplayMode to assign this mode to the tree meshes inside your tree block, repeat this for all viewports, and create a proxy geometry which represents the volume for your tree.

I wish there would be some more user friendly possibility but although many of us are requesting something like that for years now, it has not been implemented yet.

Let’s hope it gets addressed in R8

best

Andreas

[Tom_]

you might profit from some of the new rhino 7 display features:

Display

and as a workarround i could recommend:

• use textures / Pictures instead of geometry
• do a set up of your document, where layers represent different levels of detail
  for example draw a single box instead of a person on Layer Person_LowRes and have the full Details on Layer Person_HighRes
  and use LayerManager to store on / off
  or (as i do:) use a script that toggles layer visibility based on “_lowRes” / “_highRes”…

hope that helps - best -tom

[walther (Andreas Walther)]

… of course Rhino Nature will be great for doing stuff like this once it is released:

Rhino Nature Plugin - Alpha stage is completed

Hello everyone, i’m very excited to (finally) introduce you new plugin coming for Rhino. It’s called ‘Rhino Nature’. So far it took a fair amount of time to get things working as they should, maintain live update during changes and the most important part provide non-destructive workflow while scattering hundreds of thousands of objects around now you can always go back and tweak things to taste at any time. The plugin provides many types of displaying geometry to ensure that viewport remains a…

[andrew.nowicki]

Flamingo plugin is mediocre renderer, but it makes good trees, shrubs, weeds, and other ground cover. The only flaw of the Flamingo plant editor is that it cannot make dense grass. Flamingo plants do not bloat Rhino models (.3dm files) because each plant is displayed as a few dozen dots rather than render meshes. These dots represent tree trunks and their branches. All Flamingo plants are easy to design and change, including leaves, flowers, and fruits.

[walther (Andreas Walther)]

They really need to develop a visual proxy system for complex components that you can toggle on or of IMHO.
All these complicated workarounds are really a pain IMHO, they could use the pointcloud ability of Rhino, since these display really fast.
If they would then give the user the ability to display every N th point (N would be user defined, dependant of the wanted complexity/performance).
It could even be done as a viewport mode ( “N th pointcloud display”) then we could use the SetObjectDisplayMode command for certain objects (although it would be better to have the ability to define the point density on an per object basis)

We would have a very nice system that could boost performance by magnitudes !!! when working on complex scenes!

best

Andreas

Edit: Sorry, I just saw that this is a R5 tread…