Forest Pack

The Ultimate Scattering tool for 3ds Max

Forest Pack includes all the features you need to create perfect scatters, every time. The fully integrated solution uses a familiar UI and workflow to create almost unlimited geometry with complete control over every detail. That’s not all, use Forest Maps to randomize maps and add tints, quickly populate a scene using our included library presets or create your own, and use Forest Tools to convert scatters to max instances or XML data for use in large pipelines. With its power, unrivalled features list, ease-of-use, and premium support. Forest Pack will change the way you render.

What's New in Forest Pack 6

• Max 2021 and Arnold support:
• Adds compatibility with 3ds Max 2021 including support for Arnold, Autodesk's powerful new built-in renderer.
• Particle Flow Support:
• Scatter items on static or animated particles while retaining Forest Pack's best-in-class randomization and instancing capabilities.
• Effects Improvements/Multiple Effects:
• Use as many effects as you need simultaneously, including any of the 30 new effects added to the built-in library.
• New Tree Library:
• Quickly populate scenes using Forest Pack 6’s free high-quality starter collection of trees and plants, including 11 new species.
• V-Ray Improvements and Next Support:
• Render with the latest versions of V-Ray, enjoy improved stability when using IPR mode, and faster proxy loading times.
• Interactive Distribution Along Splines:
• Scatter along splines with Forest Pack 6’s new fully interactive path mode with controls for spacing, offset, path following, and randomization.
• Effects Improvements/Maps and Falloff Curves:
• Use maps to control nearly any aspect of a scatter using Forest Effects and add falloff curves to manipulate any editable parameter.
• New Grass Library:
• Create realistic grass and ground cover using the new and improved lawn and weed library. Build up layers and customize grass exactly how you want it.
• UI Improvements:
• Simplify the interface for speedy everyday use, or unhide advanced features when you need them to release the full potential of the plugin.
• Interactive Marker Placement:
• Attach items to markers, matching their position, rotation, and scale. Editing the marker automatically and instantly updates Forest Pack. Select all of a Forest objects dependencies with a single click including geometry, areas, surfaces, splines, objects and more.
• Select all dependencies
• Select all of a Forest objects dependencies with a single click including geometry, areas, surfaces, splines, objects and more.
• Update Manager
• Get new and updated content and install it to your library browser the moment it is released with Forest Pack 6's new update manager.

Render Without Limits

Billions of Polygons:
Create scenes with virtually unlimited geometry. Renders with hundreds of thousands of objects each with millions of polygons are now possible thanks to Forest Pack’s advanced geometry shaders, compatible with most popular render engines.

Points-Cloud Display:
WYSIWYG scattering is possible with Forest Pack’s point’s-cloud display mode. Preview huge polygon counts while maintaining viewport responsiveness and avoid time spent rendering previews.

Convert to Instances:
Convert Forest Pack objects to Max instances with the click of button. Ideal for sharing with users or computers without the plugin, using renderers that aren’t already natively supported, or exporting to real-time engines. For large pipelines we provide the ability to export data in an XML file.

Supported Geometry

Meshes and Proxies:
Add almost any geometry and Forest Pack intelligently converts it to native render instances on the fly, so there’s no need to spend time creating proxies. If you prefer proxy objects, they’re fully supported too.

Parametric Objects:
If you’re able to output an object as a mesh, you can use it in Forest Pack. This includes parametric objects like GrowFX plants, Laubwerk Trees, RailClone styles, and even nested Forest Pack objects!

Probability:
Control the exact composition of a scatter using probability values. Percentages are automatically normalised so there’s no need for tricky maths.

Groups:
Scatter groups of objects and preserve their composition. Useful for clumps of flowers and grass, the contents of a group are handled as individual objects so although their position relative to one-another is retained, they can still be individually randomised.

Licensing

Each purchase of Forest Pack Pro gives you access to a single license for creating and editing Forest Objects, the full library contents, and free unlimited render nodes. For the duration of your maintenance subscription you are also entitled to premium technical support and upgrades.

The versions released during your maintenance subscription are yours to keep forever. If you like to stay up to date with the most recent versions of Forest Pack we recommend you should stay on the maintenance plan, however there are no penalties for allowing it to lapse. If you want to skip some versions, it's no problem and you can jump back on at any time and download the most recent software paying only for another year of maintenance.

Compatibility

Forest Pack Pro is compatible with:

3ds Max 2012 to 2021, 32 and 64 bits 

3ds Max Design 2012 to 2021, 32 and 64 bits 

Forest Pack provides the most extensive native support of renderers in the industry, allowing out-of-the-box rendering of huge polycounts with no need to convert geometry to proxies.

Forest Pack supports native instancing in the renderers and versions listed below:

• Arnold is supported from 3ds Max 2018 onwards
• Mental Ray is supported in version 2012 - 2021 only.
• V-Ray and V-Ray RT supported versions are 2.5 or greater for V-Ray 2, and 3.3 or greater for V-Ray 3, and V-Ray Next and V-Ray GPU
• Thea Render 1.3 and onwards
• Corona Renderer 1.x
• Maxwell 3.x
• Octane 1.x and 2.x
• Arion
• Moskito Render 1.x
• Redshift  2.x