Forest Pack Pro review

A word about licensing

Alternative uses: the plugin can be used for scattering cars on a road, 2d & 3d people, etc.

There’s something important to mention regarding licensing: you can use the same Forest Pack Pro license both at your job and at home. It’s not written in the license of the plugin, but Itoo is flexible about this and authorizes users to activate licenses more than one time. Just make sure not to use them at the same time.

Conclusion

You’ve probably guessed by now that I’ve really come to like Forest Pack Pro. RAM management works very well, tools are easy to use and some of the features (Forest Map, camera visibility, clusters, altitude range, etc.) really help with the scattering process and allow you to give a very natural look to your scenes.

Thanks to its accessible interface, the plugin is very easy to adopt for CG studios. Of course, artists will have to dedicate some time to read the help file and watch some video tutorials in order to learn all the little tips and get the most out of the plugin.

Forest Pack Pro is one of the easiest and most powerful plugins available for creating realistic vegetation environments. It is useful not only for architectural visualization, but also for cinematics, commercials and other kinds of CG production that require the creation of complex environments.

For those who’d like to give it a try, a free Lite version can be downloaded from Itoo Software’s website. You won’t get all the features but you’ll still get to test much of its functionality.

Matt Guetta is a CG and 3D architecture visualization artist based in France. He started 3D as a hobby and was quickly fascinated by the subject. In 2009 he decided to re-orient his career towards 3D CG, and focused on learning V-Ray in order to become a lighting/rendering artist. You can find more about his work, related news and free V-Ray tutorials at MattGuetta.com.