Scattered Plants: Badlands

Plants grow nearly everywhere - on arid plains and weather-beaten mountaintops, in scorching hot valleys and on snow-covered hills. Now you can also have them in your renders!

Dry and thorny stalks, dusty grasses and a few green leaves turn a bare scenery into a true landscape.

These plant props are made to populate entire terrains. They basically are groups of billboards with an organically shaped high-resolution version for the foreground and a very basic low-resolution version for the background. The materials also feature high-res and low-res versions, available for both 3Delight and Iray.

Each set of plants has nine dense and nine sparse presets, mix them all for a natural-looking groundcover effect.

You can place the plant props manually in your scene but their true usefulness is revealed when used with instancing. The lightweight geometry allows you to generate thousands of instances without overtaxing your system.

As a bonus, this pack includes two video tutorials that explain how to use them with HowieFarkes's UltraScatter script and six presets to get you started quickly. However, you can use them with any other instancing script, too. (Note that to use the included scatter presets you will need the UltraScatter script which is available separately.)

Note: These plants are made to be rendered at a little distance. They are not very suitable for large close-up renders.

What's Included and Features

• Scattered Plants: Badlands: (.DUF)
  • High-resolution Props:
    • 3 large dense patches
    • 3 medium dense patches
    • 3 small dense patches
    • 3 large sparse patches
    • 3 medium sparse patches
    • 3 small sparse patches
  • Low-resolution Props:
    • 3 large dense patches
    • 3 medium dense patches
    • 3 small dense patches
    • 3 large sparse patches
    • 3 medium sparse patches
    • 3 small sparse patches
• Material Options:
  • High-resolution Material Presets:
    • Desert Grass
    • Dry Flowers
    • Grey Plant
    • Herbs
    • Red Reeds
    • Rough Plant
    • Thistles
    • Weeds
    • 56 different mixed materials
  • Low-resolution Material Presets:
    • Desert Grass
    • Dry Flowers
    • Grey Plant
    • Herbs
    • Red Reeds
    • Rough Plant
    • Thistles
    • Weeds
    • 56 different mixed materials
  • Utility Presets: (Iray only)
    • Translucency on/off
    • Displacement on/off (for HR materials only)
• BONUS:
  • 6 scatter presets for UltraScatter by HowieFarkes
  • 2 tutorial videos
• Textures Include:
  • 168 Texture and Bump Maps (250 x 250 to 1024 x 1024)
• Daz Studio Material Presets (.DUF)
• Daz Studio 3Delight Material Presets (.DUF)

Notes

• This product includes:
  • 1 DSON Core Installer

Compatible Software:

DAZ Studio 4.9

Install Types:

Daz Connect, Install Manager, Manual Install