dark tree?

[TheToadStool]

A friend of mine still had an old Dark Tree on His PC. As a Mac user I hadn't given it much thought but now I have access to PC for animation. Can this be made available again? That material generator looked like a hoot!

 

 

thanks,

 

 

Adam

 

[Fuchur]

You can still get the dst-files here:

http://www.darksim.com/

 

In A:M you will first have to create a material called "SimbiontAM". It can be found if you create a new material, rightclick on its Attribute and go to "Change Type To > Plugin > Dark Sim".

You can than load in the dark tree materials.

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[TheToadStool]

so that app that allows one to make these materials is no longer available is my understanding

[Guest]

You can't make new materials from within A:M...just tweak some parameters of existing downloaded one's.

[Fuchur]

That is DarkTree 2.5 itself... can be found here:

http://www.darksim.com/html/download_darktree2.shtml

(you would need to compile that)

 

or here:

http://www.darksim.com/html/download_demos.shtml

 

Can't see why it should not work, but I think it costs something.

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[TheToadStool]

Fuchur, I just want to say thank you for sharing your knowledge on this. DarkTree is on my "to do" list. I would like to figure out all these things soon. I just thought it looked fun putting together materials with a graphic interface. Seems like it should be more of a thing

 

 

Adam

[Wildsided]

Not wanting to discourage you Adam, but I've found DarkTree materials can add some serious time to a render. If you can get the same result using textures, colour, bump, normal etc then you might be better off. Having said that my computer isn't exactly a beast in the power department and a more powerful rig might not even notice a difference.