v1.0.48 Laubwerk Plants Kit 8 – Temperate Shrubs and Bushes
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Temperate Shrubs
A selection of both common and distinctive temperate shrubs and bushes species planted in parks, gardens, and rural landscapes including excellent shrubs with spectacular floral display such as Yunnan redbud, and Bachelor’s buttons, common hawthorn with beautiful autumn color and the cherry laurel ‘Schipkaensis’, a very popular ornamental shrub.
10 shrubs species of Laubwerk Plants in 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasons each, for architects and CG artists working in 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, and 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:
Spring & summer: 10 out of 360 temperate deciduous tree models of Laubwerk Plants Kit 8.
Autumn: 10 out of 360 temperate deciduous tree models of Laubwerk Plants Kit 8.
Dog-rose (Rosa canina). CG artwork by Mario Kelterbaum using Cinema 4D, Otoy OctaneRender, and Laubwerk Plants Kit 8.
Bachelor’s button (Kerria japonica ‘Pleniflora’). CG artwork by Mario Kelterbaum using Cinema 4D, Otoy OctaneRender, and Laubwerk Plants Kit 8.
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 shrubs and bushes species are included in the Plants Kit 8. 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.
JUNEBERRY
Amelanchier lamarckii
Large erect deciduous flowering shrub or small understory tree of open habit with an vase-shaped crown. Smooth grey-brown bark. Finely-toothed, elliptic to oblong leaves emerge bronze-tinged in spring, mature to dark green in summer turning red-orange in autumn. Star-shaped white flowers in drooping clusters appearing in early spring before the leaves. Berry-like round fruits are dark red when young, which ripen to dark purplish-black and resemble blueberries in size, color, and taste. Widely cultivated as an ornamental plant. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
YUNNAN REDBUD
Cercis glabra
Medium-sized deciduous tree with a very compact and densely branched crown and a narrow, columnar form in youth, which gradually acquires a tear drop or oval-vase shape with age. Smooth, grey, rippling bark with distinctive muscle-like texture. Ovate, serrate, fresh green leaves are clean and attractive throughout the growing season turning golden yellow in autumn. Its small crown makes it very suitable as a street tree but also as a park and garden tree.
PURPLE-LEAVED FILBERT
Corylus maxima ‘Purpurea’
Large deciduous shrub with an upright-growing habit, widely diverging to umbrella-shaped when old. Grey to brown bark. Broad, opulent deep purple leaves. Catkins flowers produced on leafless twigs in late winter. Pale yellow male (pollen) catkins and short bright red female catkins. Followed by edible nuts concealed by a tubular husk. Popular ornamental shrub in parks and gardens. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
COMMON HAWTHORN
Crateaegus monogyna
Deciduous thorny shrub or small, rounded tree with a dense crown. Dull brown bark with vertical orange cracks. Glossy, deeply lobed leaves, upper surface is dark green above and paler underneath. Creamy white flowers grouped in broad, dense, flat-topped clusters and resemble cherry or apple blossoms. Dark red berries in autumn. Common hawthorn is extensively planted as a hedge plant, especially in rural landscapes.
BORDER FORSYTHIA
Forsythia x intermedia
Medium-sized, fast-growing deciduous shrub with an upright and spreading habit. Bark green when new, becoming olive-brown to yellowish-brown. Medium green leaves, opposite to sub-opposite, ovate to elliptical, and serrated on the upper half of the leaf blade, with an acuminate tip. Pale-yellow to brilliant yellow flowers produced on one- to two-year-old growth in early spring. Attractive flowering shrub for shady areas or shrub borders.
BACHELOR’S BUTTONS
Kerria japonica ‘Pleniflora’
Medium-sized deciduous shrub with slender, arching, yellowish-green stems. Double-toothed, narrow, ovate-lanceolate, light green leaves, prominently veined, turn yellow in autumn. Rounded, five-petaled, rose-like, solitary bright yellow double flowers, blooms somewhat profusely from mid-spring. Very popular cultivar in gardens and parks.
DWARF MOUNTAIN PINE
Pinus mugo subsp. mugo
Small, slow growing, evergreen, coniferous shrub. Curved, often multi stemmed trunk, red or grey bark, reddish branches. Bright to dark green leaves are needle-shaped, borne in pairs. Flowering period in late spring. Symmetrical nut brown cones, thin-scaled and matt textured. As an ornamental it is very popular, e.g. in municipal parks, front yards, rockeries.
CHERRY LAUREL ‘SCHIPKAENSIS’
Prunus laurocerasus ‘Schipkaensis’
Evergreen large shrub or small tree with a dense, rounded, upright form. Glossy, leathery, dark green leaves. Showy, strongly scented, small white flowers in spring in erect racemes. Small, cherry-like, glossy red fruits, turning black when ripe in early autumn. Popular ornamental plant used in gardens and parks in temperate regions worldwide.
DOG-ROSE
Rosa canina
Small to medium-sized, fast-growing deciduous shrub with gracefully arching, multiple stems. Stems are covered with thorns. Alternate and pinnately, green leaves divided into 5 to 7 leaflets with serrated margins. Scented, pale pink to white flowers with 5 petals are solitary or in small clusters at the ends of branches and bloom in late spring to summer. Oval, smooth, bright red fruits (hips) that persist on the plant for several months. A perfectly lovely wild rose in its simple charm.
DWARF ARCTIC WILLOW
Salix purpurea ‘Nana’
Small, slow-growing, deciduous shrub with an compact, rounded habit and an airy, slender appearance. Attractive purple colour stems adds to the winter interest. Fine twigs and branches. Very narrow, bluish green to whitish green leaves turn yellow in autumn. Silvery catkins in early spring.
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. |
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