What is the best software for creating foliage, trees, bushes, grass etc?

cjpeg

Hello,

When I started to learn CG I always wanted to create nature, now I know a bit of everything except of how to create different vegetation. Is someone a professional in creating vegetation here? Please help me decide where to go.

I want to create vegetation for general purposes: ultrahigh quality vegetation, greenery for games, photo-real flowers - all of this.

Please help.

poopipe

speedtree is the only really complete package

Obscura

That. Megascans is a nice option too.

musashidan

Do you want to actually create it manually or by using the 2 best options that the lads above have advised?

cjpeg

musashidan said:

Do you want to actually create it manually or by using the 2 best options that the lads above have advised?

I wanted the best way to create nature things... Speedtree looks awesome, do someone works with it?

poopipe said:

speedtree is the only really complete package

I checked, but it seems speedtree is too expensive and has different packages for everything. Is there a universal package for general purposes, like games and cinema combined? And does the developers of speedtree provide a student versions of their software?

Thank all for the responses!

Obscura

Speedtree for UE4 starts at 20 bucks a month. That really isn't so much. You can also download trial / evaluation versions to see if it fits your need. 
As far as I know, there isn't a student version.
I would say the cinema version is the "universal" version but that expensive, yeah

Honestly, the best thing to do is to combine megascans and speedtree in your workflow. You could download scanned leaves, bark textures, etc, and play with them in any way in speedtree. But then it gets kind of expensive overall, for a student. This would give you the most realistic result, and most flexible and easiest way to work though.

Eric Chadwick

If you have 3ds Max, TreeMaker is a free add-on. I've used it, does a decent job.
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/tree-maker

If you're a Blender user, The Grove looks pretty good, and 109EU isn't bad. I haven't used it but it looks decent.
https://www.thegrove3d.com/buy/

XFrog is a standalone Windows tool, currently 99USD. I haven't used it but it also looks good.
http://xfrog.com/category/xfrog-for-windows.html

Mark Dygert

Speedtree

cjpeg

Thanks to everyone, I'll try xfrog - it has free trial and learn a bit about steedtreee and megascans...
I use maya and looking forward to see blender 2.8 to use it by the way.

cjpeg

poopipe said:

speedtree is the only really complete package

I checked, but it seems speedtree is too expensive and have different packages. Does it have a package for general purpose, like for games and cinema together? And does it have student versions?
This software looks as what I need indeed, but...

Dash-POWER

TreeIt is great standalone free SW for trees and branches creation. I would say best free alternative to speedtree. There is also TreeGen script for max which is also great.

@Eric Chadwick
Thanks for the Xfrog. I didn't know about that.

Eric Chadwick

Hey, TreeIt is pretty cool, thanks for that!

Titus

For modeling trees and vegetation like plants and bushes IMO GrowFX for 3dsmax.

musashidan

The thing about Speedtree for UE4 is that you get a lot of things for free: wind anim/textures/Materials/lightmaps/LODs. There is usually some tweaking alright but it's a huge timesaver and headstart.

gnoop

Imo one of the best tree modellers was now defunct free  app for ipad: TreeSketch3 .    For hi-res kind of trees.