The Forbidden Forest

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The Forbidden Forest is a sinister yet mysterious place where many enter yet few return while attempting to cross through it's woods that are filled with evil trees, razor sharp thorns on large vines that permeate the forest and of course an ominous fog so thick it can conceal even the most wicked and vile of creatures.

The Forbidden Forest is divided into two parts, the cemetery and the forest just beyond the Gargoyle guardians. There is a pine forest that provides a background that can rotate to cover any camera angle you choose, there is also a fog dome and moon system that provide that eerie dead forest look that is shown here in the promotional imagery. I've created a method of easily changing the moon types, fog dome styles and a way of hiding the "high poly trees" in the cemetery area with a simple drop down menu found in the Parameters tab for each item/system just mentioned. All is explained in a colorful .pdf manual I've included to help you achieve the many looks you see in the images shown here!

Due to the high number of instances in the cemetery area your computer may lag when every part of the Forbidden Forest is displayed on screen, so to remedy this when you open a scene file it will load with simple looking "low poly trees", simply pose your characters and switch to "Show high poly props" with the drop down menu mentioned above and hit render! Every prop you see in the images can be loaded separately in the center of the screen so you can create your own creepy scenes with the many props and trees provided. You can load an entire summer or autumn scene with a click in either Iray or 3Delight format, the only limitation with the 3Delight version is the 'terrain shader' is Iray only so you can only load one type of material at a time for the ground. Have fun walking through the Forbidden Forest!

What's Included and Features

The Forbidden Forest (.DUF)
Scenes:
- !Autumn full scene (Iray)
- !Summer full scene (Iray)
- Autumn full scene (3Delight)
- Summer full scene (3Delight)
Presets:
- UberEnv2 (daytime)
- UberEnv2 (night)
- Moon system
- Fog domes
- Main gate
- Outer forest ring
Props:
- Cameras
- Evil tree 1:
  - Branches Down
  - Evil Squint
  - Lean Over/li>
  - Sour Face
  - Trunk Up/Down
  - Twist L/R
- Evil tree 2:
  - Branches Down
  - Evil Squint
  - Evil Extreme/li>
  - Trunk Up/Down
  - Twist L/R
- Evil tree 3:
  - Branches Down
  - Arms Down
  - Mouth Closing/li>
  - Trunk Up/Down
  - Twist L/R
- Guardian tree
- Gravestone 1-5
- Brick path
- Fallen leaf:
  - Flatten
  - Fold
- Fog plane:
  - Arc Down
  - Arc Forward
  - Arc Up/li>
- Grass (small)
- Grass (tall)
- Landscape
- Rock 1-3
- Gargoyle guardian
- Pumpkin:
  - Pumpkin Taller
  - Pumpkin Wider
  - Stem bend Up/Down
- Dead tree 1-3
- Maple tree 1-2
- Pine tree
- Shrub
- White birch 1:
  - Bend
  - Branches Down
  - Branches Narrow
- White birch 2
- !Left vines
- !Right vines
- Large pumpkin vine:
  - C Curve
  - S Curve
  - S Curve Top
- Pumpkin ivy
- Small pumpkin vine
- weed 1 (ground Ivy)
- weed 2 (nettles)
- weed 3 (alpha)
Poses:
- UberEnv2 (daytime 1)
- UberEnv2 (daytime 2)
- UberEnv2 (daytime 3)
Preset Lights:
- Moon spotlight 1-5
DAZ Studio Scripts:
- Enviro sphere (visible in render)
- The Forbidden Forest Guide
Render settings:
- Instance optimization
- Daylight HDRI
- Scary night HDRI
- Autumn (afternoon 1-3)
- Autumn (dusk 1-2)
- Autumn (morning 1-4)
- Summer (afternoon 1-2)
- Summer (dawn 1-2)
- Summer (dusk)
- Summer (morning 1-3)
Materials:
- All trees (glow ON)
- All trees (smoldering)
- All trees (wood)
- Evil tree 1 (glow ON)
- Evil tree 1 (smoldering)
- Evil tree 1 (wood)
- Evil tree 2 (glow ON)
- Evil tree 2 (smoldering)
- Evil tree 2 (wood)
- Evil tree 3 (glow ON)
- Evil tree 3 (smoldering)
- Evil tree 3 (wood)
- Guardian tree
- Fallen leaf (green)
- Fallen leaf (mixed)
- Fallen leaf (yellow)
- Fog plane (thick)
- Fog plane (thin)
- Gargoyle (chipped concrete)
- Gargoyle (dirty concrete)
- Gargoyle (mossy stone)
- Gravestone 1-5
- Brick path
- Fog plane
- Grass (small)
- Grass (tall)
- Landscape (grass)
- Landscape (leaves)
- Landscape (soil)
- Main gate
- Pumpkin
- Rock 1-3
- Shrub (fall leaves 1-2)
- Shrub (summer leaves)
- !Dead tree 1-3
- Birch 1 (fall leaves)
- Birch 1 (summer leaves)
- Birch 2 (fall leaves)
- Birch 2 (summer leaves)
- Maple 1 (fall leaves 1-3)
- Maple 1 (summer leaves)
- Maple 2 (fall leaves)
- Maple 2 (summer leaves)
- Pine tree
- !Left vines
- !Right vines
- Large pumpkin vine
- Pumpkin ivy
- Small pumpkin vine
- weed 1 (ground Ivy)
- weed 2 (nettles)
- weed 3 (alpha)
- Fog dome (blue fog) Iray
- Fog dome (green fog) Iray
- Fog dome (purple fog) Iray
- Fog dome (thick fog) Iray
- Fog dome (thin fog) Iray
- Landscape
Textures Include:
- 205 Base Color, Emissive, Height, Normal, Roughness, Transparency (512 x 512 to 4096 x 4096)
Daz Studio Iray Material Presets (.DUF)
Daz Studio 3Delight Material Presets (.DUF)