(Updated) More details revealed: Manually Painting Vegetation, Not Just for Plants.
(Updated) More information has been disclosed by E-on in recent posts: Create Plants With Unprecedented Detail – Sample 2, Easily Add Details to Your Plant Geometry.
(Updated) According to the latest information revealed by E-on, The Plant Factory will be available as a standalone application and is expected to be released in this quarter (Q2 2013). Its price has yet to be determined. Check out the latest posts at the software’s website for more: Procedural Vegetation Modeling, Modeling from Components, Grow Plants on Objects, Your Questions Answered! (FAQ).
E-on Software has posted further details on its upcoming plant modeling and rendering system, stating that plants created with The Plant Factory can be exported fully rigged and textured to 3D applications using a variety of formats such as FBX, 3DS, OBJ, etc. Wind-animated plants can be exported using a fully rigged mesh for further tweaking the animation or as a cloud of animated vertices (MDD style). E-on has also posted a sample render showing the amount of detail and complexity that can be created with TPF. More on TPF’s website: TPF in your 3D application, TPF lets you create plants with unprecedented control and detail.
