GrowFX 2.0.1 and 1.9.9 SP11 are now compatible with 3ds Max 2025.
Welcome to Exlevel
Exlevel is delighted to offer GrowFX is a plant modeling and animation system for Autodesk® 3ds Max®.
Flexibility
You can recreate digitally a lifelike 3D model of any plant, from grass and trees to woodland using a refreshingly simple interface and an essential set of parameters that you can set up yourself.
Creating any plants
GrowFX lets you to create broadleaf trees, conifers, palm trees, flowers, ivy and many other vegetational compositions. Its unique model building tools will help you to create creeping plants, entwining scene objects, and shearing plants of any shape. Plants may bend around different objects.
Animation
GrowFX is fully compatible with 3ds Max®. All parameters can be animated. You can, for example, create a wind animation, plant growth animation and other kinds of animation you can imagine. There is also an opportunity to edit the parameters using MAXScript.
Why GrowFX is best!
Features
GrowFX 2.0 works in 3ds Max 2013 ... 2025 (32/64-bits).
GrowFX 1.x works in 3ds Max 9 ... 2025 (32/64-bits) and
3ds Max Design 2009 ... 2015 (32/64-bits).
Creation of realistic trees
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 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
Learn 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 for 3ds Max 2025
GrowFX for 3ds Max 2024
GrowFX 2.0.1 and 1.9.9 SP11 now compatible with 3ds Max 2024.
GrowFX 2.0.1 and 1.9.9 SP11
We have released GrowFX 2.0.1 and 1.9.9 SP11, which is now compatible with 3ds Max 2023 (64-bit).
GrowFX for 3ds Max 2022
GrowFX 2.0.0 and 1.9.9 SP10 now compatible with 3ds Max 2022.
GrowFX 2.0.0
We have finally released GrowFX 2.0.0 with a Node Editor.
GrowFX 2.0.0 Beta
We have released GrowFX 2.0.0 Beta with a Node Editor.