Digital Expressions Sweden has released Tropism, a new procedural plugin for Modo that allows the user to create trees and other types of foliage as well as many other types of branching structures. Features include:
- The ability to grow entities like trees, shrubs, plants, veins, lightning bolts in real time
- Grow inside mesh boundaries, on mesh surfaces or in point clouds using the built-in point generator (Point Scatter)
- Paint vertices on mesh surfaces and see vines grow in realtime where you paint
- Define start location of the growth using one or more locators (roots)
- With several roots all entities will compete for space without branch collisions
- Use deformers, effectors to shape, deform and animate the growth
- Mesh UV-mapping automatically generated
- High/Low poly generation
- Use curves as guides for growing
- Leaf system controls
The plugin costs $50 for a perpetual license. Find out more on Payhip and watch a demo on YouTube.
