Realistic Trees and Plants for 3DSMAX

"Game developers, animators and studios in need of an advanced plant modeler now have natFX®. Quickly reproduce complex 3D virtual plants from a diverse virtual seed library. Age, optimize, grow, seasons, rich textures, procedural modeling, botanic behaviors, all perfectly integrated into Maya® and 3ds max®.

1. Simple and Rapid
natFX was designed so that you can easily and rapidly create photo-realistic plant models from our virtual seed library. A few clicks of the mouse are all you need to send a 30-year-old Japanese cedar into your scene. Once in the scene, you decide to change the season to autumn, a click of the button and the tree changes season without having to generate a new tree. Change its age too !

2. 2D/3D Hybrid Technology
Scenes requiring trees and plants rarely need full geometries. If you approach a tree but never see the back of it, there is no point in having the tree display in its full geometry. Like movie studio sets, only what is seen is built and saves production time and money.

natFX make your job easy by giving you the tools to optimize your trees, creating smoother and more streamlined scenes.

3. Fully 3ds max® Intergrated
natFX was made to work with 3ds max® and is seamlessly integrated into it. The natFX interface is found in the Control and Modify Panels in the Command Panel. Once a natFX tree has been generated, feel free to use any 3ds max® tool to modify it like you would with any primitive.

Thanks in part to tight integration, natFX quickly generates plants adapted to your needs. Modifications are practically real-time.

4. Diversity
Need a row of Coconut Palms along a tropical beach? With natFX, each palm created is different, every time. natFX plant generation stems from a virtual seed, not a model. And what's more is that they are procedural so you can create an entire forest of unique Birch trees.

5. Botanically Correct
natFX plant library is powered by AMAP, a technology developed by CIRAD. Each model is associated with a virtual seed holding that plant's genetic information. natFX interprets the genetic code, calculates the plant's architecture and renders it in 3D in no time. Based on the laws of botany, natFX is able to faithfully recreate 3D trees, bushes and flowers..."

by Pierre Kueny (France)

The price for this power tool is steep, costing US $990 or Euro 1090. However, you can still download a demo and try it out!