[GFX Plants 101]

 

 

GFX Plants 101 is a collection of realistic 3d models of coniferous trees for 3ds max and GrowFX 1.99.
You can tweak or animate many parameters and receive desired shapes and animation. Use ready 3d plants from library or make your own variations in GrowFX, adjust height, density, style and so on, tweak wind speed, plant flexibility and make looped wind animation. 3ds Max 2017+ and the latest version of GrowFX 1.99 SP11 is required.

 

GFX Plants 101 includes -Larix decidua variations -Picea abies variations -Picea pungens variations -74 different plants -Over 200 plant’s variations for different seasons -PBR shaders for Corona, FStorm and V-Ray -High resolution 4K textures -Integration with Forest Pack library

GFX Plants 101 has 2 versions: -GrowFX version (ready for animation) -Meshes only version

Download GFX Plants 101 PDF catalog

GFX Plants 101 release date is 1st of May. Now GFX Plants 101 is available for pre-order with 20% Off before 1st of May.   Pre-order GFX Plants 101 (GrowFX + meshes) - 150 €   Pre-order GFX Plants 101 (only meshes) - 100 €

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

Sure, frost shader is ready and I will release it with new plants soon. I did huge amount of tests and RND and found the way how to make it reaaly good and keep balance between quality and polycount 

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

Update, frost shader added. New model of Blue spruce | Picea pungens glauca

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

some render tests

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

Final version of Picea Abies or Norway spruce rendered with FStorm. 3d model optimised and updated after many tests and RND. I added improved details, cones and textures, random nail colors, twigs with buds,  PBR shaders for FStorm, Corona and V-Ray and much more. This big spruce 12 meters heigh has only 657 336 polygons and looks very detailed.
Will release new conifers soon!

[Growing Ivy animation - help]

Maxtree isn't good source. Their plants looks good but it's impossible to make good wind or grow animation because of they structure.

Did you cached grow animation? I have never had such problems.

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

 

[Batch Cache Objects]

as far as I know we don't have such a script...

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

I tried to keep balance between polygon limit and details. This big fir have about 1 million of polygons.

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

Picea abies or Norway spruce, almost final version

 

 

[Snow and wind in GrowFX 2]

Haha, too much questions and too few time to answer! I'll try to answer later.

[Animation examples in GrowFX]

Picea abies, test animation of wind and grow. I noticed some problems with grow animation and fixed it, new animation will be ready tomorrow. Your feedback will be helpful!

 

 

[GrowFX lister]

Thanks for great job!

[Snow and wind in GrowFX 2]

 

Some fun with GrowFX 2 with procedural snow and wind animation 

Will show you something interesting and procedural soon!

[About Plant texture issues]

Main problem is not in material but in overall workflow. Yes Speedtree is more advanced in this case, it can make complex shape blends without visible seams. I mean blends between trunk and branches. It is not 1 welded mesh like metamesh produces but it's a blend of 2 different meshes but with tweaked normals and smoothing groups and that's why you don't see border between 2 meshes because branch normals are the same as trunk normals in the intersection area. Also SpeedTree makes opacity blending between 2 materials and you don't see a hard edge between branch and bark materials.

 

SpeedTree widely uses 3d scanned geometry and offers automatic blending of procedural trunks with 3d scans and makes smooth blend between materials without visible seams.

 

Yes we need such features in GrowFX as well as fast metamesh. I found some good  papers with algorithms on how to make solid mesh like Metamesh but on GPU. Will send it to Eduard soon.
Metamesh is very very slow and computes on 1 CPU core...

 

Also I think we need some new mesh features like boolean + subdivision to make a fast and good looking solid mesh. But if you need a smooth transition between bark and branch we need separate meshes with unified vertex normals in the intersection area.

 

Anyway, even now you can make good looking result like this

[GrowFX 2 идеи для улучшения]

Рандомизацию старта также можно сделать легко, подавая рандом на старт позишен.

Нода для травы нужна, ну и не только для травы... Эдакий круговой дистрибутор с параметрами плотности, угла поворота, оффсета и пр. для имитации последовательности Фиббоначи.

[GrowFX 2 идеи для улучшения]

Оффсет по вертикали сделать легко, надо ноду нойз с большим скейлом, и потом подавать на этот нойз рандомное значение. Ну и ессно включить галочку шифт старт пойнт, а по иксу поставить смещение 0.

 

[Angle divergence/ Path Distribution]

Hi! Could you explain better? Or attach scene file, can't understand your issue )))

[Animated 3d model of Magical Beanstalk]

Hello! Thank you for suporting me and my R&D. Yes currently node graph is locked and hidden due to copyright reasons, because I don't want to share my skills and secrets to my numerous competitors. And the node graph is very complex and contains lot of very complex dependensies and it's hard to explain everything  I spent over 5 weeks developing this model, bug reporting and etc, it was very hard job.

 

 

[Custom 3d plants on demand from GrowFX expert]

If you are looking for best 3d models of plants with animation or need unique 3d models then I can help you!  My name is Konstantin Kim "3dmentor" and I'm the most experienced 3d modeler of plants in GrowFX. I made thousands of different plants - trees, palms, conifers, flowers, grasses, shrubs, cactuses and etc. I'm involved in GrowFX developing and beta-testing and know it very deep, know it's secrets and lifehacks and working with GrowFX for over 11 years.  Also I could make any textures in Substance Designer for my 3d plants.  Some of my 3d plants available here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GFXPlants
https://www.youtube.com/user/3dmentor/videos

[GrowFX Tree Flickering]

Capture GrowFX animation to cache...

[how to make the branches gradually change the angle of inclination]

can you show images and other references?

[Странное поведение ветвей при анимации роста]

Вот моя анимашка, тоже долго мучался в своё время...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZoC_rp67JQ

 

[Animated Cocos nucifera palm for 3ds Max]

Presenting realistic 3d models of animated Cocos nucifera or Coconut palm

 

 

Presentation video 1: https://youtu.be/8MxPxK3vtqg

Presentation video 2: https://youtu.be/vz4Pl2w73Uk

 

 

Workflow video: https://youtu.be/BwGReclvK8A

These high-quality 3d models include high-resolution PBR textures, shaders for Corona render, FStorm and V-Ray. It's a fully customizable 3D asset which offers creative freedom! You can tweak or animate any parameter and receive desired Palm's shape and animation. Make your own palms, adjust LODs, height, density, style and so on, tweak wind speed, palm flexibility and even make cycled wind animation!

 

Available on Gumroa: https://gum.co/isvRk

 

3ds Max 2014+ and the latest version of GrowFX 2 is required.

 

#3dmentor #gfxplants #growfx #3d #animation #palm #cocos #coconut

[Animated Phoenix Canariensis or Canary Island date palm]

This is an animated 3d model of Phoenix Canariensis or Canary Island date palm. You can randomise it, add growth and wind animation, tweak any parameter such as length, width, thickness, tweak amount of drought foliage, LODs etc. More details in the presentation and workflow videos I made for you.

 

 

Presentation and workflow process on YouTube

Phoenix Canariensis palm presentation: https://youtu.be/BDA4U3M-J2g
Phoenix Canariensis palm workflow: https://youtu.be/-ecaLz52hr4

 

Available on Gumroad: https://gum.co/PmEUx