Environment

E-on Software with its VUE and PlantFactory products is the leading developer of solutions for the creation, animation, rendering and integration of natural 3D environments. The products are used worldwide in a wide variety of fields such as film, television, architecture, game development and science, delivering easy-to-use procedural technologies that create stunning digital natural scenes.

VUE provides a procedural toolset for environment creation. Generate fractal-based terrains, paint interactively or automatically deploy thousands of instances with VUE's EcoSystem technology and create beautiful volumetric clouds and skies. Deep integration with PlantFactory makes it a snap to create windswept forests and fields where every plant is unique.

The included VUE plugin makes it possible to create scenes directly in C4D or open and edit standalone VUE scenes and combine them with native C4D assets. Convert complete scenes to native C4D assets - including support for native instances and multi-instance conversion - and render them with almost any render engine. The plugin automatically creates native materials for Standard/Physical, Arnold and V-Ray. Optionally, you can also compute the combined scenes with matching global illumination and anti-aliasing in one pass with Hybrid Rendering (Standard/Physical renderer only).

With the powerful proceduralPlantFactory, you draw plants by hand or create them from scratch with nodes. Node parameters can be controlled by other nodes, allowing you to create complex dependencies and custom interfaces. Add seasons, age, and health to any plant, and save presets of plant stages and shapes - all within a single procedural model. Create infinite variations of a plant and export them to any pipeline.

PlantCatalog is a standalone collection of high-quality 3D procedural vegetation models, suitable for VFX, architecture and real-time scenarios such as games. Based on PlantFactory's procedural technology, you get access to an ever-growing collection of procedural plant models. Customize each model to your taste and generate infinite variations. The finished model can be exported to any pipeline.

Both PlantCatalog and PlantFactory include a C4D plugin that lets you load procedural plants natively and edit their shared parameters and presets directly in C4D. Once you're satisfied, convert them to polygon meshes with automatic material creation for Standard/Physical, Arnold and V-Ray. The meshes can be either static or animated.