alomax92 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 We use a lot of plants in our 2D and 3D designs for clients. We have found that many common and native US plants are not found in the database that comes with Landmark nor in the Resource Manager. In 2D, we can find something similar but in 3D, we really need the correct species. What are we missing? How do we get a more comprehensive plant database? Quote Link to comment
Popular Post Jeff Prince Posted July 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 hours ago, alomax92 said: We use a lot of plants in our 2D and 3D designs for clients. We have found that many common and native US plants are not found in the database that comes with Landmark nor in the Resource Manager. In 2D, we can find something similar but in 3D, we really need the correct species. What are we missing? How do we get a more comprehensive plant database? Hi Andy, Practicing in the desert southwest and Middle East, I have had to make my own plants for the majority of my projects. I think the most efficient way to do this is to take or obtain a desired elevation photograph of the desired plant(s), cut them out in Affinity Photo (or Photoshop), and use them as an imageprop in the plant object's 3D graphics. Sculptural plants like cacti can be modeled or purchased from a variety of 3D model providers and then used for the 3D graphics of the plant object. For what it's worth, I don't think it is realistic for a software company to develop a library for every market around the world, so they focus on the most common plants for the most common areas. Temperate zones seem to have a lot of material that looks good, not so much for the hot deserts 😞 Even when desert plants are provided, they usually look incorrect because they have been made by people with little to no experience with them. There are many plants available for purchase from companies that specialize in developing 3D models for the animation and gaming industries. The only problem with those is they are heavy in polygons and textures. You can hire people here on the forum to make plant libraries for you if needed as well, the best way to find such folks is to post a help wanted ad. Here is an example of some 3D plants I have made, found, or purchased. The ocotillo along the wall are image based 3D models, the rest are actual models with textures for the details. Simple imageprops are much easier to develop in comparison. I made almost all of these from photographs, a couple of the Agaves are from Vectorworks library IIRC. 6 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) Looks quite rich and colorful - in the desert. I thought there are only some succulents like cactus and so. (Not much clue from botanic but we had at least some Agaves in the past) Edited July 5, 2022 by zoomer 1 Quote Link to comment
Jeff Prince Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 hours ago, zoomer said: Looks quite rich and colorful - in the desert. I thought there are only som e succulents like cactus and so. (Not much clue from botanic but we had at least some Agaves in the past) I find a lot of beauty in the native desert plants in the southwest US, both in form and color. Yellows are the most dominate bloom color with some purples, oranges, reds, and whites. White blooms are for the night time pollinators like bats and moths. We have many plants that bloom at night only to conserve their pollen, which can die in daytime temps. On the ornamental side of plants, many tropicals do well in desert environments if they are watered. Cold is usually the limiting factor for plants. Lots of drought adapted ornamentals for deserts come from Australia and Africa as well 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment
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