Plant Factory Released

Krisidious

Sigh... Too rich for my blood. Incredibly awesome though.

Rich O Brien

Rich, do you have it?

Maybe...

Pixero

I bought it when it was in beta but haven't played with it much.
Interface was very slow. Hopefully the new version is better.

Box

Makes you wonder if someone will come up with a People Factory in the same way.

solo

@rich o brien said:

@solo said:

Rich, do you have it?

Maybe...

Awesome looking program, would love to create a Thea library from this but my jaw hit the ground when looking at price for Studio version.

Rich O Brien

Imagine your face if you had the Producer version....

solo

@rich o brien said:

Imagine your face if you had the Producer version....

Lol, yeah it would be awesome, so if I understand even with the producer version one cannot make and sell trees unless through Cornucopia right?

I just want to create a library of trees for certain vegetation zones that are so hard to find.

Krisidious

Yeah, their prices and restrictions are kinda crazy. Ok, really crazy... It just seems like cruelty to show you what could be done and then tell us that only Movie Industry people will get to use it. Or people that shell out a ton of money and only sell their work through us.

Pixero

I bought it as beta at a discount, but I agree.
I Believe that if they would have priced it differently they would have got a whole lot of users and the community would be both happy and prosperous.
Now not as many will buy it and it's future is more uncertain.
I remember Twinmotion (http://www.twinmotion.com) (a Lumion competitor) marketing before it was released.
The crowd was cheering and would have bought the software. After they released their pricing
all cheering disappeared and now the software is almost forgotten.
I still think it could have been better than Lumion, with built in modelling tools.
Also Lumion got too greedy and have raised the price significantly from when it was first released.

I'll report back my experience with Plant Factory when I have tried the new version.

solo

@unknownuser said:

I'll report back my experience with Plant Factory when I have tried the new version.

Looking forward to that, I'd like to know if there are tools to reduce trees so one can use in SU as proxy's (or just lower poly trees) and maybe be able to link to higher poly versions for rendering.

Can one share a model that one creates freely or is there a restriction on that too?

Pixero

@solo said:

Can one share a model that one creates freely or is there a restriction on that too?

I have to read up on that. The first beta had some serious restriction with sharing files even between users in a company. They changed some things based on user feedback though.

Krisidious

We were brutal on the feedback... BRUTAL! It was my club and I was beating them with it. I was so excited for this system and so disappointed at their route.

Pixero

Here's Steve Bell's (Eon) explanation in the Forum:

@unknownuser said:

Let me try and explain in plain english

You can use content you create with Plant Factory Studio as you wish, be it FBX, OBJ or whatever format. But you are not allowed to hand over content to someone else. If you want to make plants for another company, you need Producer, and they need Producer too, because you are only allowed to hand over content in the .TPFP format.

You will be able to upgrade from Studio to Producer for $499, the difference in cost between the two versions.

BTW, we are not being creative with these terms. This is a rather standard policy in the high-end plant creation business.

That kind of says it's for your personal use only if you don't sell plants through Cornucopia.

solo

@pixero said:

Here's Steve Bell's (Eon) explanation in the Forum:

@unknownuser said:

Let me try and explain in plain english

You can use content you create with Plant Factory Studio as you wish, be it FBX, OBJ or whatever format. But you are not allowed to hand over content to someone else. If you want to make plants for another company, you need Producer, and they need Producer too, because you are only allowed to hand over content in the .TPFP format.

You will be able to upgrade from Studio to Producer for $499, the difference in cost between the two versions.

BTW, we are not being creative with these terms. This is a rather standard policy in the high-end plant creation business.

That kind of says it's for your personal use only if you don't sell plants through Cornucopia.

Like saying, here is SU pro 2013, you can create anything you want but cannot share the model you create with anyone that has the free version only with people who own the pro version.

Pixero

@solo said:

Like saying, here is SU pro 2013, you can create anything you want but cannot share the model you create with anyone that has the free version only with people who own the pro version.

Please, don't give them any ideas...

Krisidious

"Pretty standard in the High End Plant Creation Business..." A lot of those businesses is there? what like 4?

Krisidious

@pixero said:

@solo said:

Like saying, here is SU pro 2013, you can create anything you want but cannot share the model you create with anyone that has the free version only with people who own the pro version.

Please, don't give them any ideas...

lol

If I can use all the kool features, like hand drawing plants, and I can use them in my own renderings and models, and I can sell them on their website, and they are actually useable in SketchUp... then $495 wouldn't be sooo bad.

Pixero

Having played a short while with the new version now...
The interface is somtimes slow.
You can "unsubdivide" a tree down to just triangles plus you can hide leaves and the outer branches so it could be used as a lowres proxy standin.
The branch/trunk connections look pretty good.

Highres tree