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reviewed elsewhere on this site so to catch you up on what Xfrog is, and
does, take a moment to read the following. When you want to design models of any
type of plant life then Xfrog is your program! With Xfrog you have complete
control over all aspects of the designing phases. You tell it what type of plant
you want, how many branches it is to have (if you decide to create trees). You
design the way the leaves are formed and bending in the wind. You decide which
is the best orientation it should have with regards to the direction of the sun.
In short, you are pretty much in total control! One note, do not mistake Xfrog
for cheap imitations of other plant modeling software. It is a far cry from
others and you should be prepared to spend some time with it in order to get all
of its worth. Xfrog is simply great!
Take a closer look at Xfrog and see for yourself if it does not have everything
you might need in creating either static plant models or animated models. You
can build virtually anything that either is in nature, or something that maybe
nature forgot. First off, Xfrog takes a different approach from other
applications in that it uses a procedural graph networking system that then
allows you to link many different components together. Each linked component can
be built on a hierarchical tree where all those linked together affect each
other. Whether you want to make a model of an exotic tree, a blossoming flower,
or create an animation of a flower, Xfrog can do it!
Seeing how well Xfrog itself works there still may be a time when you want some
pre-fabricated plant life. This is where this review comes in. There a number of
Add-Ons that you can get from Greenworks. CDs that are full of pre-made models
of 100's of different plants and tree life. They have plenty of different CDs
available for $99 each. By looking at the many pre-made models you can get a
good feel for how models are actually created. Check out their Web site for more
information on these CDs as well as other software applications.
The collection I looked at here was Cacti and Succulents of the Southwestern
USA. This volume contained twenty different species of Cacti and plant life
often seen in, or around the Southwestern parts of the USA. Each model comes in
three different variations that represent the young, the middle-aged and adult
plant life. In each they had very high quality textures for leaves, branches,
trunks and blossoms, and even the skins were included on the CD itself! With
over 400MB of files on the CD you can visualize all you get with any of these
collections!
Xfrog alone gives you everything you need in an efficient package to create
virtually any type of organic plant life you want! Once you have Xfrog you may
soon want to expand your models with any number of the CD collections available
from their site. Xfrog and Xfrog Plant CD collections is the only way to grow!
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