Appreciate all the effort you put in. Hopefully I haven't butchered it too much 😅
Really nice that this extension has been revived and I can see a lot of effort being put into improving it. The UI for the instant generation on the leaf and tree is a little bit different and I'm finding the nodes hard to understand. Some documentation would be appreciated.
Appreciate the review! Not the best at UX I'll be honest. Majority of this has been effort to get the app to the existing state. But this feedback is what I need to hear so I'll put some brain power to wiring this up better!
Finally a easy to use tree generator for non-native english speaker. :-) I never was able to get a good looking tree from Sapling Tree Gen but with this addon right with the second try.
It is easy and customizable together.
However, even though the over all rating is only 3 I want to give it 5 stars. I like how to get good results.
There are also fields to improve, I would like for example a more detailed documentation of how to use any and every parameter the best. One even have to search for the special node tree. However, I believe, in this state, it compete with new and improved features.
Really appreciate it. Still working on features but it'll take a bit of learning on my end.
Very glad this is revived! Look forward to when auto generate is fixed :)
Hi Cate-2,
Thanks for the review. I'm currently in the middle of a few features. Are the auto-generate issues related to the leaf generation by any chance?
Very good initiative and well made but not compatible with Bl 5.1 (python version) and, in my case, no tree real time update with 5.01 (unless you change mesher parameters) that make tree editing boring.
Hi PMA33,
Will have to investigate the Blender 5.1 version. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
I am currently working on the leaf generation and following that, I will be working on the live updates. I will keep you posted when these features are available.
It is amazing the customization, but some major issues are that the leaf's aren't modifiable, and evertime I open the project the extension just disappears, and I have to install it again every time. also it would be nice to have some roots
Hi Rojus,
Thanks for the feedback. I will take a look into this and see if I can identify the issues.
I am working on leaf generation at the moment. I picked up this project in the middle of a re-work state and unfortunately, leaf generation wasn't something that was properly present. I will update you when this is available next.
Edit: I've updated the the extension to now include leaf generation. Please let me know how it goes
It creates the geometry for the tree, including the planes for the leaves. Instructions state to select Generate Leaves but I don't see an option for that and the leaves render as planes. Not sure if that's a bug or I'm doing something wrong. using Blender 4.5.0
Hi Michel-Weber, thanks for the review.
No this isn't a bug and unfortunately, the leaf model is only changeable on the node editor using the modifier at the moment.
I have it in the pipeline to handle leaf generation but as this is a revival of an old add-on, some of the way things were handled previously no longer work as expected.
I'll keep you posted on this feature though!
Edit: I've made a release for leaf generation. Please give it a go and let me know how it goes!
Fantastic! I'm so glad to see this updated to work in 5.0 and be put on the extension platform.
Happy to bring it back. Let me know if you experience any issues!
What an amazing addition to the platform, I am glad you brought it here, Its an awesome tool.
Happy to hear. It's a tool that I used a lot previously and coming back into Blender, nothing quite added up.
Let me know if you have any issues!
This is very nice, thank you for keeping this project alive !