pisaacs opened this issue on Jun 29, 2013 · 51 posts
andolaurina posted Sat, 29 June 2013 at 11:12 AM
Here are a few vegetation option that may be helpful for you if you're using Poser, too. This really livens up Terradome and makes it a little more like Vue.
Again, Vue blows Poser away in the area of vegetation, but if you want to use Poser, here are some ideas (if you haven't already heard of them):
EvilInnocence's Digital Alchemy: Somewhat random plants and trees that can populate your Poser scenes. Not exactly terraforming but a nod in that direction. I do not have these products so I don't know how well they work. This is a relatively new product line. Also sold at Content Paradise. >> http://www.evilinnocence.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?q=DIGITAL+ALCHEMY&x=-1355&y=-15&mode=list&limit=all
Flink's Trees, Flowers, Meadows & Grounds: Flink has some lovely products here at Renderosity. They tend to be a little resource intensive (load a lot and you end up with a lot of polys). But they're quite nice. I use his products regularly, especially the skies which are superb. >> http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/vendor/Flink
Dinoraul has some excellent trees for sale here at Renderosity. >> http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/vendor/Dinoraul
Lisa Buckelew has created her fabulous Lisa's Botanicals which used to part of DAZ3D's Platinum Club. Most have been removed but will soon reappear at Hivewire3D (new store coming soon). What a loss for the Platinum Club!! Her products are quite good. I use them in every outdoor render.
However...still at DAZ3D are lots of interesting plants, including those by Predatron, Merlin, etc. >> http://www.daz3d.com/environments-props/plants/
PowerAge has a Forest Generator for M.O.M. which seems most useful for very distant trees. The trees are just flat planes with textures & transparency maps applied, so I wouldn't use them up close. >> http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/m-o-m-forest-generator/94456#
Traveler over at RuntimeDNA also sells lots of plants (most are older products) in his Modualz, Naturals and other collections. >> http://www.runtimedna.com/Traveler/ (he has a lot of stuff; it requires a lot of weeding through products to find the plants - pun intended :p)
Here's a link to Hobobo's free stuff that give you additional textures for grounds, etc. And, he has pz3 and other straight backdrops, too, if you're looking for something photographic. >> http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=hobobo
The challenge is that buying all of this gets a bit pricey. I have no idea how this compares to buying content vs. what content is embedded with Vue.
** I hope this helps & that this information wasn't too obvious or too off-topic. Just trying to show you some options of how to make Poser a bit more like Vue without losing all the Poser goodness we're used to... :)
P.S. Don't forget that Bryce exists, too.
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