Reply To: 3D Plant Design programs

You can crop plants from images, convert to PNG, and then import into sketchup. After you render them they look very photorealistic since they are.. realistic photographs. Most importantly, they are very low polygon.

Example here:

http://www.timzhang.net/portfolio/ar2.jpg

There are also companies selling 3d blocks. However, you will need a super computer to handle the amount of polygons. I couldn’t have more that a few trees in the model since a tree branch would have just as many polygons than the entire model.

Example here:

http://www.timzhang.net/portfolio/zenhouse.jpg