Visual Nature Studio Alternatives
Visual Nature Studio is described as '3's redesigned interface makes creating complex scenes easier than ever before! Additionally, faster rendering of animations along with still shots guarantees faster delivery of final product'. There are more than 10 alternatives to Visual Nature Studio for Windows, Mac, Linux, Autodesk 3ds Max and Steam. The best alternative is Terragen, which is free. Other great apps like Visual Nature Studio are Vue (Paid), World Machine (Freemium), Picogen (Free, Open Source) and Geomorph (Free, Open Source).
- Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations.
- Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse clicks.
- World Machine is a proven terrain generation solution for artists, game developers, visual effects studios and other visualization...
- A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic day/night-illumination and detailed plant populations.
Discontinued
No recent releases since 2010. See https://code.google.com/archive/p/picogen/downloads
- Geomorph is a height field generator and editor for the Linux operating system.No screenshots yet
- Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator is a relatively new terrain generator that takes a step in a completely different direction.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated since 2007 and the official website is no longer available. Last version, 3.0.5.0, can be still downloaded from Softpedia
- EarthSculptor is a realtime terrain height-map editor and paint program featuring an easy to use interface designed
- PnP TerrainCreator is a highly integrated tool for large scale terrain creation.
Discontinued
Website/app unavailable.
- DreamScape is sophisticated set of 3DS MAX plug-ins for creating and rendering realistic landscapes, seascapes, skies, clouds, outdoor lighting and more.No screenshots yet
- Voxelogic develops voxel-based modeling tools for terrains as well as 3D objects.