Different sources for 3D fashions? – SketchUp

Hello all, I’m a backyard designer utilizing a considerably specialised plant palette, and very often I can’t discover the crops I want in 3D Warehouse. Are there different sources (paid or in any other case) for Sketchup-compatible 3D plant fashions? I’ve poked round a bit on Google and haven’t actually discovered what I’m searching for. I’ve tinkered with varied importer plugins and file varieties that aren’t appropriate with Sketchup, however as I’m a considerably tech-hesitant horticulturist, I’d ideally like to seek out one thing simple and simple to make use of.

Thanks

It’s price checking that if you looked for crops you had the Fashions tab chosen. The Merchandise tab is unlikely to point out many crops.

What’s an instance plant you’re searching for?

have you ever appeared on the RPC content material from Archvision https://archvision.com/rpc/ its a paid web site they usually have lots of of crops.

I’ve made a couple of face me fashions in a pinch, however they simply don’t look very skilled.

Thanks, this seems to be promising!

Thanks, I’m looking for fashions and never merchandise.

I exploit native crops of the east coast of the US. Lots of our frequent natives (like Echinacea) can be found, however I’m arising empty on issues like Kalmia latifolia or Actaea racemosa. Looking frequent names doesn’t appear to assist. I can often discover 2D face me components however these aren’t actually appropriate for what I’m doing.

may develop your search question to incorporate “plant entourage”

Once I’m looking in 3D Warehouse, or elsewhere? What does the “entourage” signify?

entourage is thinks like crops, vehicles, folks that may be inserted into fashions for last pictures. Again in the dead of night ages we used to hint entourage out a e-book of pictures

I’m an architect so crops for me are extra “entourage” than representatives of outlined species. I discover that 2D face-me crops are most frequently fairly sufficient for my wants. After all, they appear like nothing in plan views, so I normally mix them with a 2D plan picture on a separate layer
Mixed plant:

Plant in 3D views:

What’s proven in plan (to get a pleasant shadow the “disc” is above floor degree:

Oh that is attention-grabbing, thanks! I typically can squeak by with fashions that approximate the plant I want (tall, spiky foxglove substituted for tall, spiky black cohosh, for instance) however my shoppers normally wish to see detailed depictions of the true crops.

the 2nd face me bushes preserve down the file measurement. Lots of people on the discussion board import 3d fashions of the entire plant after which endure from the file measurement rising uncontrolled.

If I bear in mind appropriately, Skatter $$ has crops, and many others.

yeah, a great query is, what is going to you do with the SU file ?

do you present it uncooked ? or export uncooked pictures and present them ? or do you utilize a render instrument (vray, twinmotion…)
or do you merely go to photoshop and go together with it ?

As a result of for those who use uncooked SU pictures, then you definately’re just about caught between 2nd, ugly and heavy.
for those who use a renderer, then you must test their libraries, they may have what you want.
for those who photoshop stuff, you could possibly photoshop your bushes in, both tree images or with the tree instrument.

My background is in panorama as effectively and I understand how laborious it’s to seek out good fashions (without spending a dime anyway). There are many good assets on the market however take into account that crops in 3D, typically have tons to elements (stems, leaves, flowers, and many others). And these all add up in your mannequin, affecting efficiency. The most suitable choice is to make use of a rendering extension – due to this fact sending the plant data on to the renderer – liberating up the necessity to present all that element in your mannequin.

I do know you talked about being ‘tech-hesitant’ however that would be the most suitable choice. For instance Lumion, Enscape and V-Ray (Rendering extensions/packages) all provide pretty sturdy plant libraries (ex: Lumion Library)

I personally like utilizing Laubwerk – which comes with a plugin to assist select and choose plant selection. For instance, every Laubwerk plant comes with 3 varieties, 3 ages, and 4 seasons – which supplies you 36 plant choices per species. With 10 per bundle (comes at a value after all) you get 360 crops out there to you.

Ex: Japanese Maple – Rendered

Japanese Maple – Low-poly for in your mannequin

You possibly can additionally try FormFonts – FormFonts 3D Fashions & Textures – which is subscription based mostly final I checked so it could find yourself being a greater deal relying in your wants. These crops/fashions are additionally optimized for SketchUp so much less wanted for rendering extension.

Lastly, for those who do buy crops from exterior sources (just like the one beneath)…they generally help SketchUp format however typically don’t. In the event you go that route, I like to recommend an importer comparable to Skimp of Transmutr. – each mean you can cut back the geometry rely ought to you end up needing to maintain a extra detailed plant file manageable.

You too can create the crops you want your self, as low-poly fashions, SketchUp/LayOut prepared.

Bougainvillea

SU is nice for laborious landscaping however if you wish to get a variety of high quality landscaping you must take into account pairing it with TWINMOTION to your mushy landscaping and visualisations… nonetheless a really low value however skilled choice