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Hi all,

I am glad to announce the release of our Forester plugin for Softimage.
Forester automates the creation of procedural trees, forests, flowers, grass and rocks.

Check out http://3dquakers.com for more details.

A very nice addition to the growing tools softimage has. what is the price range?

Pricing isn't finalized yet, but it should be in the range of existing Softimage plugins.

Hi,

Will this work across all 3rd party renderers out there?

Looking really cool btw

rob

Interesting! And, keep them plugins for Softimage coming. Proof them idiots over at AD wrong.

Looks great. I would be interested in it.

looks good, looking foward to it.

@Rork: Forester elements are generated as polygonal geometry and render in any 3rd party renderer, and can also be exported outside of Softimage.
Automatic UVs at this stage render in renderers that support ICE UVs, like Arnold and MentalRay.

So there should be no problem also working with Redshift!

Awsome can't wait to put a grip on this one.

Looks nice!
A crucial point is: will there be a (extensive) plant library? If yes, did you think to maintain and extend it by yourself, or did you think of incorporating plants from your userbase as well (compounds)?

Natually, it's great to have the power to build new plants procedurally, but it's not that easy to create high quality, realistic plants. You need to get some reference images and textures, 'understand' the structure of the plant, and the needed timeframe will be in the range of hours (very much dependent of course).

Although this is fun - normally you are in a bit of a rush when doing paid jobs, and if you have to populate a scene with 20 different high quality plants/bushes/trees, a library will be your best friend, also as a starting point for custom plants.

Hi Eugen,

You are right about the library, but at the moment this is left up to the user to create their own.

I'll consider it for future versions though.

Ok, would be cool.
It's a business decision you will have to make. Offer only a tool, or a marketplace, too.

Many people just buy static meshes from some asset vendor, and although somewhat unflexible, you can get literally thousands of top-quality plants that way, which are not re-created without some effort.

For those of you planning to stay on the Softimage boat, here is an example of the grass and flower implementation in the upcoming Forester for Softimage plugin.

bring it on, i am ready.

3DQUAKERS wrote:For those of you planning to stay on the Softimage boat, here is an example of the grass and flower implementation in the upcoming Forester for Softimage plugin.

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