FORESTATION
Forestation addon for Blender is a production tool for designers, CGartist, archviz artists and many others. A large selection of 3D scanned trees is available. Thanks to its integrated plugin it is easy to import and customize each tree: animate the leaves, change the season (winter, summer, autumn, spring), add moss or snow on your trunk, or create as much variation as you want with the trees thanks to the “randomize” function. Forestation is compatible With SCATTER5, it contains 30 ready-to-use forests!

35 3D scanned trees are available for an incredibly realistic final render with Blender Cycles or Eevee. The HD and LOWPOLY button allows us to optimize our workflow. Add an HD tree for your foreground renderings, or add a low-poly tree to create a forest in the background, this is a great option to optimize your machine resources.

All future updates are offered and included in Forestation. In the next versions, you’ll discover more high-quality scanned trees, purchasing the product now at the current price is a good investment guaranteed.

Highly realistic 3D model
Our trees have an incredible level of detail! Our 3D scanned trunk method allows for unprecedented quality. Place Forestation trees in the foreground of your scenes to ensure a high-quality and photorealistic render, ideal for your projects. Our PBR workflow guarantees a homogeneous and realistic rendering in all lighting conditions.

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Featuring Micro displacement
This incredible function of Forestation allow us to obtain a high level of details at the trunk area of trees. All the pieces of bark, the holes of the trunk, or its asperities are in great 3D detail. Unlike a bump map or a normal map, microdisplacement allows to generate real geometry, generating real shadows for an ultra-realistic render.

What is a 3D scanned tree?
We have researched and found a process to scan a tree in 3D, this is the process of photogrammetry.

First, we have to find our tree in real life! We look for trees with good-looking characteristics, such as holes in the trunk, moss, and broken or cut branches, to have an original beautiful trunk. Then with a digital DSLR we photograph the tree from all angles, with 200 to 300 photos per tree model! For each species we are also capturing the leaves for an accurate final result. Using photogrammetry softwares, we reconstruct a point cloud, from which we generate the mesh of our trunk. Then we generate the displacement map and the texture of the tree.

Now it is time to focus on the upper branches and leaves. With another set of softwares we procedurally generate the branches with their leaves. It is important that the branches are in the continuity of the scanned tree, we try to match the tree species characteristics as closely as possible: such as the size of the leaves, real life height of the tree, or precise placement of the branches…

Then we finalize the process in blender, and create our shaders and modifiers set up in Cycles and Eevee.

Animated tree
All trees are animated. Thanks to the animation function of forestation you can animate the leaves to simulate the wind! There are wind-presets available, such as light wind, medium wind and strong wind. It’s very simply, choose a preset and press the spacebar to start the animation. The leaves will start to move realistically, ready for your animation!