Simple Tree Tools 3.0 goes procedural
Simple Tree Tools 3.0 targets Houdini 20.5+ with procedural trees, scan extension nodes, and one-time licenses from free to $1,299.
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Natsura 0.6 adds effectors and Nanite export for Houdini Foliage
New growth controls, a new assembly workflow, and a long changelog full of speedups, warnings, and some very honest rough edges.
Nature Generator update brings procedural nature to Blender
Cinematic Cookie updates Nature Generator with new scatter, wind, trees, and presets, plus the same procedural rocks to rivers workflow.
The Grove 2.3
The Grove 2.3 adds direct drawing, subdivide and export improvements, Houdini Indie support and huge storage savings.
Topiary Generator grows procedural foliage in Blender
Topiary Generator converts any mesh into procedural topiary foliage in Blender using Geometry Nodes, available for $15.
Painterly Trees for Blender: ShapeScape Studio Blooms
New Blender add-on ShapeScape Studio lets artists grow painterly trees procedurally with NPR shaders, custom meshes, and built-in animation.
Rendering the Inferno at RiseFX: The Lost Bus
128 shots, 15 sequences, and GPUs on the brink: RISE FX’s Oliver Schulz explains how his team built the burning world of The Lost Bus.
Painterly Garden: 200+ Ghibli-Style Foliage Assets for Blender
Painterly Blender artists rejoice: 200+ stylised foliage assets by Craftreaper and BD3D, tuned for EEVEE Next, now on Gumroad.
Unreal 5.7 Preview: PCG Grows Up, Foliage Gets Fancy
Unreal Engine 5.7 Preview is out. PCG hits production-ready, foliage goes Nanite, and MetaHumans get smarter, all free via Epic’s launcher.
Trees in Autumn: SpeedTree Controller 3.0 Falls for Houdini 21
SpeedTree Controller 3.0 lets Houdini artists break, regrow and shade trees with Karma: new features, same procedural roots
botaniq 7.1 plants global reach in Blender
Polygoniq’s botaniq 7.1 adds 405 new assets, geographic filters, and scattering presets for Blender 3.6+, with a small 7.1.1 patch.
Maxon Grows: Laubwerk Joins the Family
Maxon integrates Laubwerk’s 3D vegetation tools into its ecosystem, expanding possibilities for plant-based workflows!
SpeedTree 10 : Workflow and Performance
SpeedTree 10 is out, offering a streamlined workflow, improved integration with major platforms, and faster processing for 3D vegetation creation.
Stylised trees | Tutorial Tuesday
From Blender tutorial luminary "All The Works" comes a new video tutorial - about beautiful trees. A training programme for Unreal Engine 5.1 and Blender.
How can vegetation be made more realistic?
Use V-Ray and Corona Renderer to make grasses, shrubs and flowers even more attractive? This free ten-minute film makes thumbs greener.
SpeedTree 9 | Release
Change trees: The latest version of the vegetation software is particularly popular with photogrammetry professionals.
Vegetation | Tutorial
More than just pixel mash: With Unity 2021 you pluck and pluck the pixel art vegetation.
SpeedTree 2020 VFX Reel Showcases Digital Flora
SpeedTree’s 2020 reel collects film highlights featuring digitally generated jungles, forests and other vegetation.
50 Free Tropical Jungle Models
The Tropical Jungle Pack supplies 50 Unreal Engine vegetation and environment assets with wind animation and high-resolution textures.
Project Nature: 550 Free Assets
More than 550 Project Nature plant assets are available free of charge in the Unreal Marketplace.
3 CG Tree Models Ready for the Game Engine
Already optimised for Unreal Engine, here are three CG tree models.
Video: Simulating Vegetation in Far Cry 2
Vegetation Will Play a Major Role in Far Cry 2 from the Autumn. This Technical Video Impressively Shows Trees and Shrubs Growing.
Modeling Plants in 3ds Max 9
Bionatics presents its 3D plant-modeling plug-in natFX 4 for 3ds Max 9
SIGGRAPH: E-on Software shows Vue 6 Infinite preview, introduces Ozone 3
Ozone 3 for atmospheric objects supports all major 3D modelers
XfrogPlants 2.0: Four New Libraries
Greenworks Organic Software Has Expanded the XfrogPlants Program with Four New Libraries.
Digimation Releases SpeedTree 3
Digimation's SpeedTree tree generator is now available in version 3, with improved wind control and expanded MaxScript support.
Greenworks Releases XFrog 4.1
XFrog 4.1 expands branch-shaping controls, improves modelling and accelerates viewport redraws.
Digimation Ships SpeedTree 2.0
New version supports palm trees, smaller polygon counts and better foresting