New features in Exlevel’s plugin for creating and animating trees, plants, flowers and various types of vegetation include:
- Added the After Mesh modifiers feature. This will allow to apply direction modifiers after calculating the mesh. For example, the wind animation will now calculated very quickly, in some cases in real time.
- Added ability to copy components (Distributors, Modifiers directions and Mesh builders) as instances.
- Added a new parameter Seed offset for all modify directions.
- Added new option Disable all MetaMeshes in the Preference parameters. This will allow more easily configure your trees with metameshes, all metameshes will be presented as cylindrical mesh. Don’t forget to turn off it when finished.
- New feature for MetaMesh: Stop stitching by Radius. This will allow more easily optimize the calculation of metamesh.
- Added a new parameter Angle axis for the Leaves mesh.
- Now it’s possible to change the order of color components in the Vertex Color.
- Added ability to apply one of several presets for any curve controls.
- Improved algorithm for HardBend modifier.
- Display the pathname of the *.gfx file on UI.
Plus bug fixes. GrowFX 1.9.0 beta is available to current owners of the plugin. More at Exlevel.
