E-on software, the leader in digital nature technologies and the maker of Vue and LumenRT, announced the prepared release of their new revolutionary plant modelling and rendering technology called The Plant Factory. The Plant Factory represents the culmination of e-on software's decades of expertise in the field of digital nature and delivers unsurpassed realism and performance. The Plant Factory can work as a standalone system or can be integrated into other CG application such as e-on software Vue. The integration of TPF and Vue is seamlessly and expand the software bringing new options and tools for controlling and editing vegetation. Specific parameters from the plant graph can be extracted to the Plant Editor to create simplified high-level controls and facilitate your plant editing process. Furthermore, when used inside of Vue,
The Plant Factory technology creates unique vegetation – i.e. no two plants of the same species will ever look exactly the same. The Plant Factory plants also sway in the breeze, or twist and bend in strong winds.
The Plant Factory incorporates four foundational elements:
- Multi-Platform/Multi-Discipline – operates across all CG platforms including real-time, streaming, and offline rendering systems and caters to the needs of CG, SFX, Landscaping, GeoDesign, Architecture and Gaming communities
- Botanical Coherency – allows the creation of more botanically accurate plant appearances and behaviours
- Precise Control – users can create plants of any desired shape, appearance, and behavior using simple building blocks
- Massive Populations – building on e-on’s leadership in EcoSystems™ to create landscapes containing millions of plants
"After years of research and consultation with our valued customers, we are very excited to bring this amazing plant technology to the market", said Nicholas Phelps, President of e-on software. "We believe The Plant Factory offers a comprehensive solution for creating vegetation populations of any size and complexity that will run efficiently on any platform, including real-time and offline rendering systems."
More information at: theplantfactory-tech