v1.0.48 Laubwerk Plants Kit 3 – Tropical Broadleaf Trees
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Tropical Broadleaf Trees
A spectacular collection of tropical species found across Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia, where they fill the streets, parks, and gardens. Laubwerk Plants Kit 3 includes the powerful African mahogany, the firey-flowered royal poinciana and prized umbrella-shaped rain tree, yellow flame and Queensland umbrella tree.
10 tropical broadleaf tree species in 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasons each, for architects and CG artists working in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, or Trimble SketchUp.
3D Plants for CG Artists
Laubwerk offers easy-to-use software extensions for architects and CG artists looking for authentic 3D plants, and plant scattering tools.
With drag-and-drop simplicity, and easy-to-use tools that modify the shape, age, season and level of detail for each of Laubwerk’s stunning 3D plants, users can seamlessly add 3D trees to any CG project. For Autodesk 3ds Max & Maya, MAXON Cinema 4D, Trimble SketchUp, and Python.
Includes 360 Models
All Laubwerk Plants in this Kit come in 36 variations per species, i.e. 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasons. Here are a few examples of the variety:
Early dry season: 10 out of 360 tropical broadleaf tree models of Laubwerk Plants Kit 3.
Early wet season: 10 out of 360 tropical broadleaf tree models of Laubwerk Plants Kit 3.
Includes Free Laubwerk Player
The free Laubwerk Player plugin comes bundled with each of the Laubwerk Plants Kits.
Use the Laubwerk Player to easily load and control plant models inside Autodesk 3ds Max & Maya, MAXON Cinema 4D and Trimble SketchUp. Just drag-and-drop your 3D tree, set the shape, age, and season and level of detail control. Watch the lightning fast rendering with inbuilt and 3rd parts renderer support.
Laubwerk Player Plugin
Inserting, controlling and rendering great-looking 3D tree models has never been easier with the Laubwerk Player plugin! The Laubwerk Player provides immediate visual access to your Laubwerk plant library. You get multiple drawing options in the viewport (like simple hull shape or skeleton) for quick feedback and low memory usage while editing your scene. And when you’re satisfied, watch the Laubwerk Player dynamically render fully-detailed plant models at amazing speeds, with automatic default materials and level of detail.
Plant Library Browser
The Plant Library Browser appears right in the 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D or SketchUp main menu and provides direct access to the Laubwerk Plants installed on your computer. Drag-and-drop your 3D tree species into your scene or replace existing trees. Loading the plants through the Plant Library Browser directly creates materials with basic shading and textures preassigned, saving you time and memory while you work.
Plant Object
The Plant Object represents a Laubwerk plant model in your scene by using low-memory hull or skeleton mode for easy placement. It dynamically loads the model’s age and shape that you chose, creating a simple viewport approximation that allows you to apply model alterations and adjust level of detail settings. Laubwerk Plant Objects are fully scriptable using MaxScript.
V-Ray Support
Dedicated support of V-Ray saves you time and memory. Instead of manually converting Laubwerk Plant Objects into V-Ray proxies, the Plant Object detects when V-Ray is used for rendering and dynamically creates the model’s geometry during rendering. This is the exact same process V-Ray uses for V-Ray proxies, just automatically applied without any manual setup.
Renderer Support
Materials and textures are created on the fly – for the built-in renderer or third-party renderers.
- For 3ds Max, Maya, and Cinema 4D: mental ray, iray, Maxwell Render, Thea Render, Arnold, OctaneRender, Corona Renderer and Redshift.
- For SketchUp: V-Ray for SketchUp and Thea Render for SketchUp.
Laubwerk Advantage
- Plug and Play – One-click solution for architects and CG artists who need realistic 3D trees, immediately.
- Fast and Fluent – Render-ready 3D trees minimize the need for finetuning that can otherwise interrupt your workflow.
- Easy and Integrated – Drag-and-drop plants inside 3ds Max & Maya, and MAXON Cinema 4D, or Trimble SketchUp.
- Intuitive – Simple settings are a mouse click away.
- Smart Content – Go beyond static models! Choose the shape, age, season and detail of each tree.
- High Tech – Laubwerk technology minimizes the usual compromise between high-quality graphics and efficient memory usage.
Realistic 3D Tree Models
Laubwerk uses a hybrid of procedural modeling and hand-detailing by botanist and 3D artists to make the most realistic CG trees.
- Render-ready materials and textures are created on the fly – for the built-in renderer (3ds Max, Maya & Cinema 4D), or third-party renderers such as V-Ray, mental ray, iray, Maxwell Render, Thea Render, Arnold, OctaneRender, and Corona Renderer.
- Leaves consist of more than just a single polygon, so they bend and catch highlights.
- Textures are based on high quality photos from real trees.
- Models maintain shape and density, regardless of detail level.
Description
The following 10 tree species are included in the Plants Kit 3. Each species comes in 36 variations per species, i.e. 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasonal aspects, for a total of 360 models per Kit.
CORAL WOOD
Adenanthera pavonina
This medium-height tree is famous for its distinct green pods that turn brown at maturity, revealing beautiful bright red seeds. In the past, the seeds were used in many parts of Asia as weights for weighing gold due to their consistent mass (4 seeds make up 1 gram). Leaves are bipinnated, with alternating leaflets, and the small sweet-scented flowers are slender golden yellow pedicels.
RAIN TREE
Albizia saman
This wide-crowned member of the pea family is unique for its leaves that fold before rain, as well as prior to sunset. Its massive umbrella-shaped widely spreading crown, covered with showy pinkish or creamy golden stamens during flowering, makes this a popular tree for shade along streets, where it can also sequester a substantial amount of CO2 from vehicles.
HONG KONG ORCHID
Bauhinia x blakeana
This medium-sized fall-flowering tree features spectacular pinkish-purple flowers that last until spring, set against impressive heart-shaped leaves. Cultivated only through cuttings, it is often used as a border plant in landscaping. The tree originated in Hong Kong in 1880, with all of the cultivated trees apparently derived from one cultivated at the Hong Kong Botanic Garden., It was adopted as the floral emblem of Hong Kong in 1965.
ROYAL POINCIANA
Delonix regia
The hot-red flowers and colorful umbrella-shaped crown make this modest-sized tree a striking piece of nature. The long, light-green, feathery leaves are equally attractive when the flowers are not in bloom. Because of its exceptional beauty and usefulness as a shade tree, the plant is used throughout the tropics and subtropics as an ornamental plant in gardens, parks and avenues.
AFRICAN MAHOGANY
Khaya senegalensis
A large-sized, fast-growing, sturdy tree with a large, dense crown is covered with spiraling compound, glossy leaves clustered at the end of the branches. The wood is highly-valued for its beauty and quality, and is often used in furniture and boat building. It is also planted ornamentally as a roadside and shade tree.
YELLOW FLAME TREE
Peltophorum pterocarpum
This medium-size attractive ornamental tree is especially popular in India, where it lines avenues. The umbrella-like crown sports yellow flowers that can occur all year in younger plants. Bipinnate glossy green leaves mingle with seedpods that start red before ripening to black.
QUEENSLAND UMBRELLA TREE
Schefflera actinophylla
A medium-sized, often multi-trunk, evergreen capped with compound medium green leaves and a striking racemes of up to 1,000 red flowers. Juvenile trees can be used in temperate climates as houseplants. This prized ornamental tree holds an Award of Garden Merit from the British Royal Horticulture Society.
SEA APPLE
Syzygium grande
A quick-growing tree common in costal forests, this commonly planted shade tree has an irregular dome-shaped crown with droopy, shiny leaves. The white flowers with showy stamens appear in compact clusters. The globular fruits are edible and have a green leathery rind when ripe. Resistant to burning, they are also used frequently as fire screens. The tree was adopted early as a roadside tree.
PINK TRUMPET TREE
Tabebuia rosea
This medium-sized national tree of El Salvador is prized throughout Central and South America for its intense pink and purple flowering during dry season and shade during rainy season, despite its relatively few thick branches. Leaves are compound, digitate and deciduous. Often found in parks and gardens, as well as otherwise deforested areas.
TROPICAL ALMOND
Terminalia catappa
This medium to large-sized upright tree is topped with a tiered symmetrical crown with horizontal branches. The large, glossy, dark green leaves are broad and ovid, with the narrow end facing the stalk. Leaves turn pinkish red or yellow brown before falling during dry season. Has been spread so widely by humans that its native range is unknown.
System Requirements
Computer Hardware | A computer that is capable of running your version(s) of 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, SketchUp. |
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Hard Disk Space | 10MB of hard disk space and additional space for the Laubwerk Plants models. |
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Installation Instructions | Our aim is to make the installation process as easy as possible for you. If you like to get more information, we have compiled these Laubwerk Plants Kits installation instructions, including advanced topics such as considerations when working in a network. |
Change Log
Update 1.0.49 (April 5, 2024)
Update 1.0.48 (December 22, 2023)
Update 1.0.47 (November 15, 2023)
Update 1.0.46 (July 17, 2023)
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