Top View Trees for Landscapes
While working with RpTreeMaker we decided to have it also create Top View tree images which would be useful for Top View landscape renderings.
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Create Top View Image
To create a Top View tree image, as well as a side view tree image, check the box on the Tree Editor Image Wizard.
Top view image height
If you are going to have items below the tree which need to be obscured by the top view image, then you will want to place the top view image above those objects or at the top of the tree.
You can set the height for the Top View image on the advanced settings dialog - while creating the tree image.
Here a bench is placed below the tree which needs to be obscured by the top view image.
By switching layers, you can see the top view image in 3D
This image was placed in the SketchUp model at 1/2 of the tree height.
You can set it to whatever percentage you want.
Parallel (non-perspe4ctive) top view image of tree with bench below it
In order to get shadows of the tree, I turned on both the top view and the side view tree layers,