Announcing Forester a new plugin from 3DQUAKERS

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ForesterAuthor: 3DQuakers
3DQuakers, one of the few providers of Softimage video training, is proudly presenting its first Softimage plugin: [..] Forester is a procedural creation addon that renders the creation of natural elements like trees, forests, grass and flowers a breeze! With its procedural approach, Forester generates the geometry using ICE, making the creation and editing of elements very straightforward. Forester is not aimed for technical directors, but for artists. No ICE knowloedge is required. In fact, Forester will add all the connections automatically, so the user would only have to change the element parameters. Forester elements come with lots of parameters to render the customization process very fast and intuitive. Almost all geometry come with built-in UVs, called Space UVs, that fit perfectly over the geometry, and render exactly the same way in Mental Ray and Arnold.

Pricing information: Forester v1 is launched with an introductory price of 159 USD, for single machine use. Additional licenses cost 100 USD per machine. Prices are subject to increase after the launch period.

A lot of documentation videos to be found here

Related plugins: TGen, LKLightning, StrandTree, Ivo Tree, Recursive Tree (click »vegetation« tag). Here is an xmas tree demo setup by Matt Morris: http://www.matinai.com/si/xmas_tree_settings.jpg

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Post by SquirrelSa » 17 Mar 2014, 11:31

Been following your walk-throughs and all I can say is - AMAZING work. This release will be an amazing tool for softimage - Genius and keep it up! Can't wait to purchase this one.
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Re: Announcing Forester a new plugin from 3DQUAKERS

Post by Kzin » 17 Mar 2014, 14:42

great features.
i like the wavy option for the tree leaves and the buldge for flowers. a question, is it possible to use instance nodes as geometry input for the leaves? actually ist always geometry.

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Post by 3DQUAKERS » 17 Mar 2014, 15:13

That's a good idea Kzin. I will implement it before release.
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Post by FXDude » 17 Mar 2014, 15:37

Truly amazing!! easy Procedural tree generation! :ymapplause: :ymdaydream:

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Forester plugin from 3DQUAKERS Released!

Post by 3DQUAKERS » 24 Mar 2014, 06:56

I am glad to announce the release of the Forester plugin for Softimage. Please check http://3dquakers.com for the release details.

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Post by SquirrelSa » 24 Mar 2014, 10:03

Great work . . . I'll definitely be adding this to my pipeline.
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Post by mattmos » 24 Mar 2014, 11:13

I'll definitely be purchasing as well, awesome job. The simulation side of things makes it really attractive, I've put together grass and tree compounds before but always struggled with controllable, reliable simulation.

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Re: Announcing Forester a new plugin from 3DQUAKERS

Post by 3DQUAKERS » 24 Mar 2014, 17:39

A quick message to say that Redshift is also supported.
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Post by jamination » 25 Mar 2014, 02:22

3DQUAKERS wrote:A quick message to say that Redshift is also supported.
I would get this today, but looking over the licening, it looks like I need to invest in usb thingamabob.
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Post by Rork » 25 Mar 2014, 13:01

Very cool, and nicely priced. I hope you do proper business with this.

Just an off question to anyone who can answer this: Is/would there be a way to make this into a geo model after setting it up in ICE?
There's a Mootzoid tool that can convert particles into geometry, but I'm not sure if this would apply here.

cheers,

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Post by mattmos » 25 Mar 2014, 13:07

It is already geo Rob, just need to freeze the modelling icetree off (and bake out the animation beforehand if necessary.)

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Post by Rork » 25 Mar 2014, 13:22

Ah... sorry. Missed that one :-)

Even better! It's quite handy to make an .ass file out of the result. Instant renders! :-)

thanks Matt!

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Re: Announcing Forester a new plugin from 3DQUAKERS

Post by sant0s » 27 Mar 2014, 13:10

Thats a fantastic combo of tools.
just fighting trough the paypal stuff :)
ty!

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Re: Announcing Forester a new plugin from 3DQUAKERS

Post by mattmos » 29 Jul 2014, 11:11

I'm wondering if its possible to remodel the base tree by hand before adding leaves at all? I need some more granular artistic control over exact placement of branches, but don't need any simulation or growth for this, just a static tree.

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Post by 3DQUAKERS » 30 Jul 2014, 16:23

Yes Matt it is possible, following these steps:

1. Prepare the leaf emitting branches as a separate object, called for example "leaf emitter", and give it an ICE tree.
2. The ICE tree should have the following ports:
a. self.__leafPoints
b. self.__staticLeafPoints
c. self.__leafSize
d. self.__branchSegs

The points positions of the "leaf emitter" should be converted into an array using BUILD ARRAY FROM SET and fed into self.__leafPoints and self.__staticLeafPoints
self.__leafSize should be given a value of 1
self.__branchSegs should be increased to something like 10

Now create a "Frs_Tree_Leaves" compound and make sure that Apply To External Tree is Checked
Feed the "leaf emitter" under External Tree Name

Now the "leaf emitter" should be emitting the leaves.
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Re: Announcing Forester a new plugin from 3DQUAKERS

Post by mattmos » 30 Jul 2014, 17:15

Great, thanks very much Charbel, that will be a big help.

Second question (hope you don't mind!) - is there a way to space out the branch distribution on the trunk so that we have less branches towards the top - think christmas tree where the distribution gradually thins out. Yup, christmas in july ;)

And third, sorry, is there a way to control the length of the branches further up the trunk? Trying out a few different things but can't figure these out yet.

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