We have released GrowFX 2.2.0 and GrowFX 1.9.9 SP13.
GrowFX — Procedural Plant Modeling for 3ds Max
GrowFX is a procedural plant modeling and animation plugin for Autodesk® 3ds Max®. Create realistic trees, grass, ivy, flowers, climbing plants, growth animation, wind animation, and custom vegetation directly in 3ds Max.
Flexible Procedural Modeling
Create lifelike 3D plants, from grass and shrubs to complex trees and woodland scenes, using a flexible procedural workflow and a clear set of editable parameters.
Create Any Type of Plant
GrowFX lets you create broadleaf trees, conifers, palm trees, flowers, ivy, climbing plants, and many other types of vegetation. Its procedural tools help you create creeping plants, plants growing around scene objects, and sheared plants of any shape.
Growth and Wind Animation
GrowFX is fully integrated with 3ds Max®. Almost all parameters can be animated, making it possible to create plant growth animation, wind animation, and many other procedural effects. Parameters can also be controlled with MAXScript.
Procedural tools for 3D vegetation
GrowFX Features
GrowFX 2.2.0 works in 3ds Max 2017 ... 2027.
GrowFX 1.x works in 3ds Max 9 ... 2027 and
3ds Max Design 2009 ... 2015.
Realistic Tree Creation
GrowFX allows you to create extremely realistic trees thanks to a special technology named Meta mesh. With Meta mesh, it is possible to combine a trunk and branches into a single surface with smooth transitions at the points of contact. Meta mesh can also create tree trunks of any shape.
Create Grass, Shrubs, and Woodland
One GrowFX object can be used to create a single plant or a group of plants. You can do it by distributing either by specified start points, or from a surface of an object. In case of distribution from an object surface, values of some parameters can be controlled by texture maps. For example, maps can control density of plants, height of plants, etc.
Create climbing and trailing plants
The direction modifier named Object reaction allows you to create a variety of climbing and trailing plants by using path reaction (reflection / magnetic) to other objects of a scene. Moreover, reactions can help you create plants growing around different obstacles or plants in closed places.
Create sheared plants
The direction modifier named Object slice allows you to create sheared plants of any shape. In doing so, you can make use of standard shapes from helper objects of the Exlevel category, including plane, box, sphere, as well as a shape of any other geometric object of a scene.
Read moreLearn how to work in GrowFX
Learning
Tutorials
Learn how to create any plants with GrowFX.
GrowFX Manual
Read the GrowFX documentation.
FAQs
Do you have a question? The most frequently asked questions we receive are listed here. If they do not answer your question, please contact us and we will be happy to help.
Download a Free Trial Copy of GrowFX
Download the latest version of GrowFX for any 3ds Max version.
Plants Library
Find and download the plant that you need from our Free Plants Library, also look at the plants of our partners.
Release Notes
Features and improvements that are added in our releases.
Contact Us
Do you have a question? Please contact us and we will be happy to help you.
Latest News
GrowFX 2.2.0 and GrowFX 1.9.9 SP13
GrowFX 2.1.2 and GrowFX 1.9.9 SP12
We have released GrowFX 2.1.2 and GrowFX 1.9.9 SP12
GrowFX 2.1.0
We have released GrowFX 2.1.0 with improved performance.
GrowFX 2.1.0 Beta
We have released GrowFX 2.1.0 Beta, which is now compatible with 3ds Max 2026. It's now possible to draw branches and leaves directly in the viewport.
GrowFX for 3ds Max 2025
GrowFX 2.0.1 and 1.9.9 SP11 are now compatible with 3ds Max 2025.
GrowFX for 3ds Max 2024
GrowFX 2.0.1 and 1.9.9 SP11 now compatible with 3ds Max 2024.