Branches is a plugin for 3D Studio Max 9. Included in the plugin is a collection of tools to assist artists in the creation of 3D trees intended for games. Note, this is not a tool for generating procedural trees, but a modelling tool for creating trees by hand. This solution relies heavily on instancing and imposters to create complex hierarchies of data. Sample code is provided to show how branches can be exported.

Unlicensed you will not be able to save branches to a max file. However you are still able to collapse the branches to editable mesh or editable patches inorder to save your work. These tools are provided without any warranty and you will use them at your own risk.

Branches.dlo v1.07 (3dsmax 9 32-bit) history

Sample FBX Exporter (3dsmax 9) dlu / src

Sample FBX Viewer exe / src

The FBX SDK is available from www.autodesk.com/fbx