Polygoniq releases botaniq 7.1 for Blender
Architectural visualization firm and tools developer polygoniq has updated botaniq, its popular library of 3D plants for Blender.
The 7.1 update adds over over 200 new plant models, focusing on biomes from around the world, with the option to filter plants by geographical location.
High-quality 3D plants for Blender artists and architectural visualization professionals
First released in 2019 for Blender, and later also ported to Maya, botaniq is a library of optimised, wind-animatable 3D plants.
The Blender edition has grown from a 1.0 release of 63 trees to over a thousand assets, including deciduous and coniferous trees, plus shrubs, cacti, herbaceous plants and grasses.
As well as individual plant models, botaniq groups assets together into readymade biomes: communities of plants that would grow together in the real world.
The library also now includes 3D rocks, and helper tools for scattering assets across terrain.
Since botaniq 7.0, the library has been provides as an asset pack that can be loaded using engon, polygoniq’s open-source asset browser.
botaniq 7.1: better global coverage, and the option to filter species by location
botaniq 7.1 adds 209 new models, rounding out botaniq’s geographical coverage: as well as Europe and North America, the video above shows biomes from South America, Africa and Australia.
Users can also now filter plants by geographical location, clicking on grid squares on a world map inside engon to show only species native to that region.
The update also adds 106 new scatter patterns and 90 new curves for distributing assets.
Pricing and system requirements
Botaniq 7.1 is compatible with Blender 3.6+, including both Cycles and Eevee renderers.
Personal licenses cost $129 for the full library. There are also $1.99 and $49.99 Starter and Lite editions, which provide 4% and 42% of the full library, respectively.
Multi-seat studio licences start at $249.99.
Read a list of changes in botaniq 7.1 in the online documentation
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