What's your favourite tree/vegetation generator?
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I'm coming back to C4D after a couple of years away, I'm developing a series of 3D infographics looking at the effects of climate change and green tech solutions.
The brief requires pine forests, mangroves and underwater sea grass vegetation - I'm having trouble finding a solution for the latter two.
I've used Laubwerk's libraries in the past to great effect but they don't have what I need.
I need to get it right as I'm working freelance instead of for a studio and the better solutions aren't exactly cheap. I'd appreciate any help. -
Hey @Livat1984,
There are currently four commercial third party solutions for your task (that I am aware of):
- Forrester is a full blown plugin suite for vegetation generation.
- Taio is also a vegetation solution which integrates nicely into the Insydium toolkit.
- Laubwerk is more an asset library with an optional surface distribution plugin.
- Poliigon also offers bindings for its asset library to Cinema 4D, including a vegetation library.
- With Cinema's own Mograph (Cloner, Fields, and MoSpline) system, Scene Nodes, and our asset library you can also get pretty far.
Fig. I: Cinema's own asset library comes with substantial content in the Plants section (all the content does not even fit on my screen, there is more). - Finally, a while ago a user posted here a free plant generator, but I am not sure if it is being maintained.
Cheers,
Ferdinand
