thelazyone/lazy-tree

a 3D printer-friendly trees generator

lazy-tree's Issues

Error when loading the add-on in Blender

Hi,

I seems to have an issue when loading the add-on in Blender, here's the trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/Resources/3.3/scripts/modules/addon_utils.py", line 333, in enable
    mod = __import__(module_name)
  File "/Users/pyt/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.3/scripts/addons/lazy-tree.py", line 28, in <module>
    current_script_dir = bpy.context.space_data.text.filepath
AttributeError: '_RestrictContext' object has no attribute 'space_data'

Great job anyway, I'm looking forward to give it a try.

Split code in multiple files

The problem is that updating and testing on Blender becomes objectively less practical if that happens. Or not. It's worth testing, in any case a smooth development workflow in Blender is the priority..

In any case, when this is implemented the Installation instructions will have to be updated.

Presets and Sections for the parameters

Reorganize the parameters so that different sections are visibly separated, and a bunch of presets are available from a drop-down menu.

Better orientation of radial noise on branches

Currently the radial noise on branches starts from an arbitrary X versor.
This works fine with the trunk: all the rings are somehow oriented towards Z and therefore the noise remains costant. However, if a branch is directed towards X, slight variations of the branch direction might cause a 180° twist of the noise, which could be very visible in the surface.

The solution would be to use as starting point for the radial noise the position (or the versor) of the starting point in the previous ring instead.

Better instructions would be great

I see there is a Create Tree in Mesh but then what?

Light searching and ambient occlusion vector field

By calculating the light that existing branches (with generic probabilistic leaves) block it's possible to direct the growing branches in different directions. This allows for more even trees, where the canopy is more on a uniform surface.

Port everything in Rust (Major change)

The only very useful parts of the Blender APIs I'm using right now are the creation of faces and, most importantly, the Bridge Edge Loop.

However, since I have more information about the ordering of the points of each ring in the trunk, I can easily fill te faces manually.

This could be a major rework, but might also be the right chance to refactor parts that were added layers after layer.

Generated tree is not printable

The tree generate in Blender looks amazing but when added to Chitubox... it looks like this. It appears the sections are not complete?