Forester Expansion Pack 1:A new tree library for Forester for Cinema 4D

FORESTER EXPANSION PACK 1: PRODUCTION TREES

 

Forester Expansion Pack 1: Production Trees is a new tree library for Forester for Cinema 4D. It provides 51 production level trees, all with materials and textures.

This expansion pack is not a simple library, it’s rather a plugin for Forester, offering additional features that are not available in Forester, such as render engine specific material creation, as well as seasonal creation of leaves. The generated trees are fully procedural, meaning that they can be modified infinitely just like any other Forester tree. In addition, each tree comes in 3 different representations: Adult, Young and Low Poly.

 

Following is a brief summary of the main features of Forester Expansion Pack 1.

 

FORESTER EXPANSION PACK 1 FEATURE OVERVIEW

 

 

LOW MEMORY FOOTPRINT TREES

Each tree is carefully designed to give the best visual appeal with the least amount of polygons. This optimized methodology speeds up the tree preparation time when rendering

 

51 UNIQUE TREES

This new library is a major supplement to Forester’s existing library, offering a wide array of lightweight and reliable assets for the demanding workflow of environment creation

 

INDUSTRY LEADING WIND EFFECTS

Trees in the pack can be easily animated using HyperWind, just like any other Forester tree. Wind can also be looped over a specific number of frames

 

 

RENDER ENGINE SELECTOR

Users can select their render engine of choice for the creation of bark and leaf materials. The supported render engines are Cinema 4D (Standard/Physical), Octane, Redshift, Corona, Arnold, VRay and Thea

 

SEASON SELECTOR

For the leaves material textures, users can select from 3 seasons: Spring, Summer and Fall. Each season changes the colors of the textures, making the pack highly adaptable to different environment scenarios

 

ALPHA MAPPED LEAVES

Most leaves textures in this pack are alpha-based, giving a great variety for the leaf shapes which cannot be obtained from the regular polygonal shaped leaves

 

 

LEAF MATERIAL COUNT SELECTOR

Users can choose to create up to 3 different leaf materials. Materials are created automatically with the click of a button, supporting Diffuse, Specular, Translucency (except in the Cinema 4D materials) and Bump channels.

 

ADULT YOUNG AND LOWPOLY

Each tree can be created in 3 polygon levels: Adult, Young and Low Poly. Adult provides the most detail, while Young and Low Poly are useful when trees are used for scattering over a landscape

 

FAST WORKFLOW

The pack is designed to speed up the creation process in a production environment, where the user and iterate between different tree types and looks with ultimate ease

 

ORESTER EXPANSION PACK 1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND RENDER ENGINE COMPATIBILITY

 

Forester Expansion Pack 1: Production Trees for Cinema 4D requires Cinema 4D R16 and above. It does not run on earlier versions simply because some of the supported render engines do not support Cinema 4D versions earlier than R16.

 

Forester Expansion Pack 1: Production Trees needs the latest version of Forester for Cinema 4D installed. Owners of a Forester license need to upgrade to the latest version from their Forester download page. After installation, if a warning message pops up, it’s an indication that the user should upgrade to the latest version of Forester.

 

Forester Expansion Pack 1: Production Trees for Cinema 4D is compatible the Standard and Physical Cinema 4D render engines, along with the following third party Cinema 4D renderers: VRay, Arnold, Corona, Redshift, Octane and Thea. If the user opted to use another render engine not included in this list, they can either use the Cinema 4D material option, or create their materials manually using the textures that ship with the pack.