Forest Pack Lite/Pro 3.3 released

[Itoosoft]

We are pleased to announce a new version of Forest Pack Lite/Pro. Many new features are included on this release:

* Distribution Map->Diversity new modes to define the variation of plants throughout the distribution area as "Clusters" and "Color ID map".
* Scale Falloff from area splines.
* Collision checking has been rewritten completely. The new algorithm is much more accurate and flexible.
* Distribution Map now supports all types of maps, not only bitmaps. These include animated and procedural textures
* Tint Color Maps including random and texture modes. All parameters can be defined globally or by material.
* New Creation Tools modes. Scattering over complex surfaces is now possible as well.
* The items can be rotated along any axis, not only Z. Added random rotation for X and Y axis.
* Scattering process now is fully multithread, using all CPU cores. Performance gain can reach 100% in complex scenes.
* And much more. See all changes in the release notes.

Besides the changes introduced, we have enabled Collision checking for Forest Lite. Most of the new features (as Diversity) are available as well !. We have also updated the Urban Park tutorial, adding the files for VRay/Max 9.

Forest Lite, the free version of the plugin can be used for any personal or commercial project. You can download it at www.itoosoft.com.

[trick]

Nice XMas present...thanks...also for your top-notch support !!!

[glorybound]

Thanks

Yes. thanks for the heads up

[Pictor2]

very generous! Used lite on a recent project, great piece of software.

[Spikeadeliv]

Awesome

Couldn't work without it now, great support too!

laters

spike

[sea2stars]

An awesome update.

Sweet. Just downloaded.

[Olli96]

Awesome, great update.

[n6]

We are pleased to announce a new version of Forest Pack Lite/Pro. Many new features are included on this release:

* Distribution Map->Diversity new modes to define the variation of plants throughout the distribution area as "Clusters" and "Color ID map".
* Scale Falloff from area splines.
* Collision checking has been rewritten completely. The new algorithm is much more accurate and flexible.
* Distribution Map now supports all types of maps, not only bitmaps. These include animated and procedural textures
* Tint Color Maps including random and texture modes. All parameters can be defined globally or by material.
* New Creation Tools modes. Scattering over complex surfaces is now possible as well.
* The items can be rotated along any axis, not only Z. Added random rotation for X and Y axis.
* Scattering process now is fully multithread, using all CPU cores. Performance gain can reach 100% in complex scenes.
* And much more. See all changes in the release notes.

Besides the changes introduced, we have enabled Collision checking for Forest Lite. Most of the new features (as Diversity) are available as well !. We have also updated the Urban Park tutorial, adding the files for VRay/Max 9.

Forest Lite, the free version of the plugin can be used for any personal or commercial project. You can download it at www.itoosoft.com.

You 've forget the bug I have discovered AND you have corrected regarding the DR rendering between 32 and 64bit systems.
It was related to precision issue if I remember.

[Itoosoft]

You 've forget the bug I have discovered AND you have corrected regarding the DR rendering between 32 and 64bit systems.
It was related to precision issue if I remember.

I've included only a partial list of the major changes. The number of minor changes and fixes since the latest public release (3.2.4) is huge. You can see them clicking in the release notes link.

[duke2]

The Diversity thing is something I was really hanging out for after seeing how GroundWiz did it, and like most other features, you've made it even better!

[Bathyscaph]

Great Update!

I love this plugin although I haven't used it in a bit. Glad to see all the fantastic new features.

[glorybound]

Has anybody else had an issue with your proxies rendering out low in your scene? I have to raise the helpers 20' for then to display in the approximate place they should be.

[Olli96]

Do you have align to normals enabled? Did you picked the right surface? Where is the pivot located on your proxies, at their base?

[glorybound]

I don't think align to normals is an option in lite version, but I'll check, Pivot is at the base and I picked the correct surface. The helpers are sitting on the service and look good, but when I render the proxies render drops about 20'.

[Undersky]

Isn't that the limitation in Lite? That you can only render on a plane? Or do you mean that they render halfway down in the plane?