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Final versions of the now-discontinued digital nature tools are available free for commercial use. Discover their features here.

Friday, May 10th, 2024

Neat plugin lets users draw outlines in the viewport and have them filled automatically with naturally randomized sets of 3D plants.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Neat Geometry Nodes-based add-on turns low-poly guide meshes into detailed, customizable procedural 3D terrain. The base edition is free.

Wednesday, January 17th, 2024

Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.

Monday, June 5th, 2023

Popular modifier gets new tool to package your Geometry Nodes set-ups into custom Blender add-ons.

Saturday, April 29th, 2023

Free Blender object scattering tool gets its 'most powerful update yet'. Check out what's new in it, and in Graswald's online 3D plant library.

Sunday, April 9th, 2023

Check out the new features in the first update to the landscape- and plant-generation tools since 2021.

Friday, January 13th, 2023

Scattering plugin gets support for V-Ray 6, plus new options for replacing scene objects by name.

Thursday, July 14th, 2022

Updated: get five new free tools from SideFX's Houdini-to-UE5 tech demo, plus its Houdini Engine for UE5 plugin.

Sunday, June 5th, 2022

Pro edition of the real-time visualisation tool gets new volumetric omni light effect and the option to import custom decals.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2022

Download the new USD version of the legendary production data set, optimised to render in RenderMan.

Wednesday, February 16th, 2022

Create trees and grasses for use in Unreal Engine with Naughty Dog artist Peyton Varney's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

Monday, December 27th, 2021

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021