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wind animation

Get 70 free real-time 3D models of temperate grasses and flowers, created by artist Erhan Yilmaz.

Friday, October 9th, 2020

Get high-quality free Unreal Engine grass, shrub and tree assets, many with support for wind animation.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Robust Maya cloth plugin gets support for Maya 2020's cached playback system for simulations, finer control over cloth collisions.

Friday, March 6th, 2020

Major update to the biologically plausible tree-generation tool adds the option to record timelapse animations of your trees growing.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019

Neat procedural add-on lets users generate ultra-customisable trees and plants via native Modo tools.

Saturday, June 22nd, 2019

Games edition of the tree-generation tool gets new wind animation algorithm, better texture atlas generation. Smaller updates to the Cinema edition.

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

New version of the tree-creation tech lets users generate variant trees and animation inside Clarisse.

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Neat free tool offers a surprising range of control options, and exports data in OBJ and X formats.

Thursday, January 18th, 2018

Blender-based tree-creation tool gets support for wind animation. Results can be exported to other apps in FBX or Alembic format.

Thursday, November 30th, 2017

Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

3D clothing design tool gets neat new dynamics options, new modular clothing design mode. Price down $60.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

Neat plugin lets you use Maya's standard tools to control the form of the animated CG trees it creates.

Wednesday, August 16th, 2017