The Desert House and Garden. Visualization by Zoran 'Kizo' Gorski (Arscom Studios, Croatia) using Cinema 4D and Advanced Renderer with Plants included in the Laubwerk Plants Kit Freebie.
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The Freebie allows the use both the included plugin Player and the Plants for your private or commercial CG artwork.
Laubwerk Plants Kit Freebie
The following 6 plant species are included in the Plants Kit Freebie. Each species comes in 36 variations per species, i.e. 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasonal aspects, for a total of 144 models in this Kit.
Field maple
Acer campestre
A medium-size tree or shrub with a broadly conical or ovoid to round shape. The dark green, usually five-lobed leaves turn bright yellow and occasionally orange in the fall. The tree is widely grown as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens abd as gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Common broom
Cytisus scoparius
Perennial leguminous and deciduous shrub with whippy rod-like dark green stems. Mid-green leaves are small, alternate and compound with 3 leaflets. In late spring and summer it is covered in profuse small, bright yellow pea flowers. After flowering, it forms black seed pods, which explode when mature forcefully expelling the seeds. Broom was a symbol of the Plantagenet kings from the time of Henry II.
Kentia palm
Howea forsteriana
Small to medium sized, slow-growing palm with an upright crown of gracefully drooping leaves. Showy, mostly upright growing, slender trunk, young stems green but turning gray t light brown with age. Dark green, feather-shaped, drooping fronds, which have a smooth, neat appearance. Small star-shaped flowers borne in pendulous axillary clusters of spikes. Small, ovoid fruits, dull red or maroon when ripe, Grows naturally only on the Lord Howe Island group, in the Tasman sea. One of the most widely used and most popular "house plants“.
Turkish pine
Pinus brutia
Medium-sized evergreen, coniferous tree with a usually pyramidal to rounded open crown of irregular branches. Nicely patterened orange-red bark on it's trunk. Leaves (needles) are in pairs, long, slender bright green to slightly yellowish green. Stout and heavy cones are green at first, ripening glossy red-brown when 2 years old. Most important forest tree in the eastern Mediterranean area. Popular ornamental tree, extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas. The species was early introduced to the Italian province of Calabria (in Roman times: 'Brutia').
Frangipani
Plumeria rubra
This spreading shrub or small tree has a short trunk and sparse, open crown with many branches. The dark green leaves are simple, large and thick. The flowers are large, attractive and fragrant. Extensively planted throughout the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Ideal tree for small gardens and roof gardens. Genus named after French botanist Charles Plumier, who explored New World tropics.
Butterfly bush 'Pablo Purple'
Buddleja davidii 'Pablo Purple'
Small sized shrub with moderate growth and a rounded or vase-shaped habit. Slender trunk with lots of branching, which start green in color and turn light to medium brown with age. New branches slightly bend over rather than growing straight. Bright medium green slender leaves let the purple panicle flowers stand out. Already in the first summer an abundance of fragrant flowers, which appear from mid summer to fall and attract butterflies. Very nice grown in containers or as an eye-catcher in gardens.
Includes 36 Variations per Species
All Laubwerk Plants in this Kit come in 3 variants, 3 ages, and 4 seasons. Here are a few examples of the variety showing variations of field maple and red frangipani:
Includes Free Laubwerk Player
The Laubwerk Player is a plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max, 3ds Max Design, MAXON Cinema 4D, and Trimble SketchUp that comes bundled with every Laubwerk Plants Kit. It loads the models and allows for easy selection and manipulation of the models, e.g. choose between variations, ages and seasons and allows fine grained control about Level of Detail. See the Laubwerk Player page for a more detailed description.
Free Updates
Laubwerk products are constantly being updated with the latest technology. Keep your Plants Kit up-to-date! To update your Laubwerk Freebie Kit, log in to your Account Page and download the latest update.
System Requirements
- Autodesk 3ds Max (2018-2023), Autodesk Maya (2018-2023, Win & Mac, Linux on request), Maxon Cinema 4D (R18-2023, Mac & Win), and Trimble SketchUp (2014-2022, Mac & Win) with V-Ray for SketchUp or Thea Render for SketchUp, Vectorworks 2023.
- Additionally, Python for customers to build their own importers into applications compatible with Python for Windows 2.7, 3.3- 3.4, MacOS X 3.5-3.8, Linux 3.4-3.8.
- A computer that is capable of running your version(s) of 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, or SketchUp.
- 10MB of hard disk space and additional space for the Laubwerk Plants models.
Installation Instructions
Our aim is to make the installation process as easy as possible for you. If you like to get more information, we have compiled these Laubwerk Plants Kits installation instructions, including advanced topics such as considerations when working in a network.