This is very cool.<p>Over $500 USD for this Blender plugin and the 38 Twigs they currently have on offer is chicken feed for any professional use. But it sure is a lot for casual use and playing around.<p>Blender 2.8 comes with a Tree generation plugin that isn't as sophisticated as this one, but still can be quite impressive.<p>Preferences -> Add-on -> Add Curve : Sapling Tree Gen<p>Actually it predates version 2.8 by quite a bit, here is an older video of how to use the plugin on a previous version of Blender:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRF5S0aHwU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRF5S0aHwU</a>
I love this. Here is a tree modeling tool created by someone who <i>really loves trees</i>. There's no other way to describe it.<p>Anyone else would have been happy to stop at "good enough" trees, but here the attention to detail with light, gravity, wind, and relentless comparison to nature creates a result that it beautiful and "right" on a subtle level that's hard to describe. I feel happier knowing that people like this creator exist in the world. We should all aspire to such dedication in our craft!
While not realistic in most ways, I enjoyed the 2d trees in A Valley Without Wind, very colorful and they change some with the day/night cycle. Also, you could "shrink" trees (and other objects) into your inventory and bring them back to your base to decorate.<p>A couple of screenshots:<p><a href="https://www.gamingnexus.com/Images/Article/rlcxpg3498/12.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.gamingnexus.com/Images/Article/rlcxpg3498/12.jpg</a><p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/12/may/valley5.jpg/RPSS/resize/690x-1/format/jpg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/12/may/valley5.jpg/R...</a>
> The unique year-by-year simulation is a beautiful animation unfolding right before your eyes. But there was no way to record this animation, and no way to render it.<p>I don't understand how you could watch it but not record it, in older versions.
It took me quite a while to realize the title was talking about Blender the software, and not about the kitchen appliance.<p>At the end of the the first video I was still convinced this was about actual organic trees. :)
If you're looking for something similar for game development, check out speedtree. It has a comparable feature set. Also, has a relatively low month-to-month fee.