3D Plants! Options for the confused architect.

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2 hours ago, Tom W. said:

Luckily for me I bought a load of VBVisual plants a couple of years ago...

 

 

Bought them for Microstation - decades ago.

But I think I can't access these without DGN-DWG-VWX export circus and reworking ....

[Kevin K]

I may have missed something relating to this thread…are you guys wanting some specific actual 3d trees and plants species??…as opposed to i using image props?

A good site, where over the years ai have spent millions!   🙂 is xfrog…I know, goofy name, but they have some pretty good stuff….the caveat however, is that you import them into VW you pretty much need to use .3ds, or .obj file format.  Those are the only formats that will accept textures and materials….u less you have c4d (thankfully I do).

[Kevin K]

and the file sizes get pretty big.  IT is so odd, when I open one of those 3d tree or plants in c4d it is like a 90% smaller file size.

above my pay grade to exactly know why that is the case...oh well...:-(

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I'm after plants that can recieve and cast shadows reasonably realistically so not image props. Also that look ok for 3d walkarounds in shaded view.

 

But also want something efficient memory wise, so not some kind of object where every leaf is modelled as a 3d solid.

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On 2/17/2023 at 12:56 PM, Tom W. said:

I have looked at the Laubwerk plants a couple of times + wasn't overly impressed.

 

Well I think I've decided the Laubwerk plants aren't up to much.

 

Not too impressed when they give me this 20 mins before a client presentation. The upper plant and lower plant are exactly the same type - but for some reason the lower one has decided to render as white blocks.

 

[Andy Broomell]

I think you forgot to water it.