Best Tools

for Design & Development of

3D Environment Creation

Find really useful tools either free or commercial for 3D

environment creation. The tools are categorized into four

different categories for easier research and study

according to the usage they have in the creation of our

environment.

Terrain - Vegetation - Rocks & Pavements - Scattering

TERRAINDesign & Development Tools

Populate Terrain

Optimized terrain generation from contour lines.

Retopology of existing triangulated surfaces.

Easy to handle quad based geometry.

Terrain Maker

This script was written to speed up working with other

packages to create grayscale images to be used as height

or displacement maps in max. It lets you change the

resolution (detail) and the height of the terrain in max.

Terrain-conformer

This script conforms a terrain surface to a road

in just a few click. It's very easy to use.

Top Plane Slice

This tool is useful for breaking massive terrain objects.

e.g. for game engines

Vue

Offers CG professionals the premier solution for creating

exceptionally rich and realistic Digital Nature environments

with seamless integration into any production workflow.

World-Machine

Powerful and flexible, World Machine combines procedural

terrain creation,simulations of nature, and interactive

editing to produce realistic looking terrain quickly and

easily.

Planetside

Terragen is a powerful solution for rendering

and animating realistic natural environments.

Vegetation modelingDesign & Development Tools

Speedtree

A powerful toolkit used to create 3D animated plants and

trees for games, animations, visual effects shots, and

architectural renderings.

Grow Fx

GrowFX is a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max created by

ExLevel, to create parametric plants, trees, flowers and

other nature models.

Onyxtree

A cost saving collection of essential tools for a serious

CG artist.

Laubwerk

Laubwerk develops easy-to-use 3D plant plugins for

architects and CG artists who are looking for a fluent way

to insert authentic and detailed 3D plant models into

their scenes.

Lenne3D

Lenne3D enables the depiction and use of plants in a

virtual environment in order to realistically depict your

project.

ATree3D

ATree3D is simple to use 3D plants generator

for architectural visualizations. With this script for 3ds

max you can create trees, bushes, shrubs, flowers and

grass.

Vegetation

This Script allows you to create a ground plant

by setting some parameters.

Ivy_generator

The ivy grows from one single root following different forces:

a primary growth direction (the weighted average of previous

growth directions), a random influence, an adhesion force

towards other objects, an up-vector imitating the photocopy

of plants, and finally gravity. This simple scheme reveals that

the goal was not to provide a biological simulation of growing

ivy but rather a simple approach to producing complex and

convincing vegetation that adapts to an existing scene. The

ivy generator imports and exports obj+mtl files

Flower Creator

A useful script for scattering and mass-manipulating

flowers.

Plant_factory

Author fully custom intricate 3D plant models in concert

with your production workflow.

ROCKS & PAVEMENTSDesign & Development Tools

Rock Generator

Procedural rock generator for production and real time

environments.

Stone Placement-Tools

This script creates stone walls, quad stones pavements

and irregular stone patterns for various uses. It’s suitable

for both real-time and production.

FloorGenerator

FloorGenerator is a script for 3dsmax which generates

floor objects consisting of individual boards which can

easily be textured using MultiTexture.

Rock Maker

A simple and easy to use script for rock's creation

Vizpark

Creating wall and tile materials was never easier. WALLS

& TILES is a very easy-to-use 3ds max material that

creates procedural walls and floors based on multiple

single bitmaps.

SCATTERINGDesign & Development Tools

Advanced-painter

A modular brush-based distribution tool.

Multiscatter

A plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max, and 3ds Max Design,

designed to give a complete solution for creation of vast

surfaces of trees and plants.

Carbon_Scatter

The most simple and straightforward solution for

creating complex and detailed populations using the

native instancing technologies of 3ds Max, Maya or

Cinema4D..

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