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XfrogPlants are now available in V-Ray 3.2 format for 3ds Max which was released a few days ago by Chaos Group. 1,600 high quality plants individually modeled by botanical experts using Xfrog procedural software.
State of Art Academy MasterClass #15 just finished and here I feature the great work of the students. This time the main theme was my cup of ‘concrete’ tea! an interesting staggered cubes house by Spanish architect Daniel Isern called Mediterrani 32, Sant Pol de Mar. It’s great seeing 12 versions of the same house, as each student had the freedom to explore how and where to visualize it.
iToo Software has released a new episode of their regular Tips & Tricks tutorials. In this installment they combine Forest Pack and RailClone to examine ways in which the plugins can be used to add detail inside large buildings.
A new scattering extension for SketchUp is coming soon – Skatter. There is only a video showing what is an alpha preview of what seems to be a very capable scattering plugin… kind of Forest Pack inside SketchUp with render engine instancing / proxy support (so it seems with Thea Render being used on the preview). Pretty cool and I look forward to see more and have a go at it!
If you’re looking to add some lifelike trees and vegetation in general as you see in this image by Jerome Cabezas which won the Best of Week 05/2014 than you need to use GrowFX. And the good news for you is that you can get it for 25% OFF until the end of April.
iToo Software have announced the release of RailClone 2.4 Lite and Pro. This update adds a host of improvements that significantly increase ease-of-use, including the ability to import and wire multiple segments, categorised and expanded exportable parameters, drag-to-swap links, auto-renaming of parameters and base objects, the ability to automatically calculate and export the current size of segments.
