This videotutorial for maya exposes how to creating the trees in the general editor/ visor of Autodesk® Maya®. 

 

 

 

 

Paint Effects offers 3D artists a quick and easy way to add complex elements (plants, hair, glows, water mesh, etc.)to a scene.  I'm using Maya 8.5. Users of Maya 7 should still be able to follow the steps. if you want, you can choose to download Maya 8.5 Personal Learning Edition

 

 Simple paint effects, such as Airbrush, Markers, and Swirl, are included in Maya's brush sets. You can see the potential of Paint Effects in more complex brushes, such as lightning and clouds, but it's the nature effects—flowers, shrubs, grasses, and trees—that really show off the possibilities of Paint Effects. Following this tutorial guide the customer will be in a position to creating fastly an entire forest in few minutes using the visor editor of Maya. Much profit in order to realize full landscapes of vegetation like trees, plants, flowers, and other types of vegetation in Maya.

 

 

 

The trees are an other function of Mayan much heavy one in terms of weight, difficultly will succeed to create more than 3 trees with 1 gb of ram.

 

 

 

Download videotutorial modelling a nurbs tree in Maya