Exlevel has a new tool called ‘GrowFX’ for 3dsMax that allows you to interactively “grow” trees in your scene that can animate with the wind and grow around objects.
GrowFX lets you create broadleaf trees, conifers, palm trees, flowers, ivy and many other vegetational compositions. Its unique model building tools will help you create creeping plants, entwining scene objects, and shearing plants of any shape. Plants may bend around different objects.
The results look beautiful. However, I suspect it won’t work well for a “forest” of thousands of trees, that probably remains the realm of tools like Speedtree. Perhaps a good mix of GrowFX for the large trees in front, and Speedtree to fill in the background. Just a thought.
via Exlevel.com.
