The Grove 3D Alternatives

The Grove 3D is described as 'Grow natural 3D trees for visualisation and film. Grow, bend, prune, interactively simulate the seasons year by year. Build highly detailed 3D models' and is a 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to The Grove 3D for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Blender and BSD. The best alternative is powerPlant, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Grove 3D are ngPlant, Treeit, SpeedTree and Tree Studio.

The Grove 3D alternatives are mainly 3D Modelers but may also be Digital Painting Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of The Grove 3D.

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The Grove 3D

Paid • Proprietary
3D Modeler

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Windows
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Grow natural 3D trees for visualisation and film. Grow, bend, prune, interactively simulate the seasons year by year. Build...

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powerPlant
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Free • Open Source
3D Modeler
Mac
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Linux
9 alternatives to powerPlant
powerPlant is a plant modelling tool based on parametric plant descriptions, producing highly detailed models that can be exported to 3ds. Deriving similar plants is a matter of 1 click! Complete scenes can be composited with the integrated scene editor.

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ngPlant
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Free • Open Source
3D Modeler
Windows
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BSD
9 alternatives to ngPlant
ngPlant is a plant modeling software package. ngPlant interactive tool can be used to create 3D models of different plants and trees. ngPlant software libraries can be used by developers in their 3D applications, or plant modeling plugins.

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Treeit
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Free • Proprietary
3D Modeler
Windows
Etabs
5 alternatives to Treeit
Tree It is an easy to use real time 3d tree generator for the simple creation of your very own 3d tree models for your dark basic pro and dark GDK apps and games.
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Tree structure
SpeedTree
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Paid • Proprietary
3D Modeler
Mac
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Linux
11 alternatives to SpeedTree
SpeedTree is a group of vegetation programming and modeling software products developed and sold by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV) that generates virtual foliage for animations, architecture and in real time for video games and demanding real time simulations.

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Tree Studio
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Paid • Proprietary
Digital Painting Tool
Windows
37 alternatives to Tree Studio
Tree Studio is a product born from TwistedBrush Pro Studio but with a focus on 2D tree creation with a simpler, streamlined interface. Tree Studio has pairs of brushes for each tree type - one for the frame and one for the leaves.
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1. Drawing Tablet SupportTree Studio supports the use of external drawing tablets as input devices.
Arbaro
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
9 alternatives to Arbaro
Arbaro is an implementation of the tree generating algorithm described in Jason Weber & Joseph Penn: "Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees".
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Plant Factory
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
9 alternatives to Plant Factory
Professional 3D Computer Graphics software to create, animate and render realistic 3D worlds, landscapes and natural environments
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Rendering
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Xfrog
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Paid • Proprietary
3D Modeler
Mac
Windows
Linux
Cinema 4D
Autodesk Maya
9 alternatives to Xfrog
Xfrog is a procedural organic 3D modeller that allows you to create and animate 3d trees, flowers, nature based special effects or architectural forms. Xfrog is available as a Mac OS, Windows, and Linux plug-in for Maya, Cinema 4D and as a standalone application
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1. Procedural ModelingXfrog can create or modify 3D models and textures based on a sequence of rules.
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TreeGen
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Free • Open Source
3D Modeler
Mac
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Linux
Blender
11 alternatives to TreeGen
TreeGen consists in a platform indipendent Python script which should work as a plugin for Blender . Thanks to the graphical interface, it aims to create random trees and forests in a simple and alternative way to L-System.

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Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.12, released in March 2005, can be still downloaded from SourceForge
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Modular Tree
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
Blender
5 alternatives to Modular Tree
this is an addon for blender3d which works pretty nice and isvery easy to use if you are familiar with nodes
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Modular System
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