It's been effectively abandonware for past 5 years.Ĭhris's trees are quite damn nice, I use his birches, only can support him :- )įrom premade collections out there, the very recent evermotion ones (117 and something.) are OKish. Still, it generates decent trees, but it should already die. It can't output single mesh (i.e unibody, not bunch of cylinders sticking out of cylinders.), it has problems keeping realistic proportions when you want to generate older, complex trees (anything taller than 10-12+ meters will look awkward), the viewport is unusable once you need complex trees (10+ milion poly) even if you use the hide tools of UI. it's 300 vs 1.5, that's a bit big difference.

I understand the tools are there (but only in the very highest version, 1.5k dollars, lol.competing with SpeedTree I guess.) but imho they are still somehow oriented toward 'optimal' quality/resources, rather than very pure photorealistic output, which most users aren't after anyway (I am talking, 50+ milion of poly, not 5+ like current 'high-end' trees, which still look comically CGish no matter what). I watched Plant factory closely for some time, but, I have yet to see a single, realistic tree done with it, even the Accacia in their example is rather.CGish. In battle of GrowFX and Plant factory, I have to say the high-end solution is rather GrowFx, altough with heavy cost of not being exactly easy/fast as well as the workflow not being very nature mimicking (you have to manually copy references ).

3ds max tree model