Parametric Approaches

Weber and Penn

Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees

Charlie Hewitt’s adaption of Weber and Penn

Procedural generation of tree models for use in computer graphics

Add repo (which is an addon) to Blender

  1. clone repo
  2. copy ch_trees folder to ~/.config/blender/2.82/scripts/addons
  3. In Blender open: File -> User Preferences -> Add-ons
    1. Community (Tab) -> Filter: Object -> Object: TreeGen
    2. Activate Sidebar: View -> Sidebar OR with shortcut key N
  4. Open ~/.config/blender/2.82/scripts/addons/ch_blender in IDE
  5. Make changes in IDE
  6. Swap to Blender and hit F8 to refresh the add-ons

Other Blender Plugin based on Weber & Penn

Sapling Tree Gen abpy/improved-sapling-tree-generator