Is there any good landscape tutorilas ou there. I am trying to change the layout of our disc golf course by using blender. There is going to to be 2 roads a river that will be in there. Also alot of trees is there a way we can just import these or would I have to create every one?
Your going to have to ask yourself a few questions before you can move forward:
- Do you want the trees in your model to look like the real life trees? Or just approximate their size and position?
- How realistic do you want your finished model to look?
- How much time are you ready to spend on this?
Then you can choose from a few of the options at your disposal. If you really want it to look just like your course, you’re obviously going to have to build all the models yourself; and its probably going to take a while, especially if you are new to organic modeling. If you are looking to just import models, there are a few blender repositories that might have something, but I doubt it:
http://e2-productions.com/repository/modules/PDdownloads/
What could work better for you, if you don’t need photorealism or anything, would be to take advantage of the Sketchup 3D warehouse; which has lots and lots of trees to chose from.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
Of course, the down side of this is that you cannot natively import from Sketchup to blender. So, you can commit heresy and develop your model in Sketchup; or you can follow this tutorial on importing a model from Sketchup into Blender by taking advantage of the KMZ export function.
http://alexvaqp.googlepages.com/sketchupblender
Its not as hard as it might look.
Hope this helps,
-K delta