Forest Pack Pro 6.1.5 for 3ds Max 2018-2019 | 1.7 Gb

The iToo Software team is pleased to announce the availability of Forest Pack 6.1.5. This release adds official support for V-Ray Next Update 1 and drastically improves Forest Pack’s stability and feature compatibility when using V-Ray’s latest VFB and viewport IPR modes.

Thanks to this release, users are now able to see and edit Forest objects live during IPR renders, including the ability to update distribution settings and see immediately how they will look in the final render. All aspects of distribution are supported, including the ability to edit the Density, Maps, Offsets, Diversity settings and more. You can also add and modify areas, including surfaces, edit all the settings, and even remodel the terrain itself to see how your final distribution will appear in the final image. All in real-time!

It doesn’t stop there, you can also change settings in the Transforms rollout to see the effect of your randomisation without needing to keep triggering a re-render. See the effects of randomising the rotation, translation and scale without having to guess the outcome by looking at a simplified proxy or a point cloud viewport representation.

Larger items like trees will usually have a significant impact on the final composition, as well as the interplay of light and shadow in your scene, and one of the most time-consuming tasks can be refining the final position of scattered items to control this. To make fine-tuning scatters easier, we’re pleased to announce that Forest Pack’s Item Editor tools also now work with IPR render modes, so you can fire up a render and edit individual objects to get the lighting just right, without having to rely on guesswork.

If you are Corona user, you’ll be glad to know there are improvements here too. Forest Pack’s point-cloud display mode no longer vanishes during IPR renders.

Where IPR rendering really benefits is during material creation, and we’re pleased to announce that Forest Colour is fully supported, including the ability to randomise between up to 10 maps and tint geometry by item or by element.

Finally, these features are not limited to the Virtual Frame Buffer. You can render and edit Forest Pack objects using the new Viewport IPR modes. There are two ways to view the objects, either with a Point Cloud overlay, or by converting the view mode to proxies you will see only the rendered image. To switch between the two, we recommend using Forest Lister to quickly change display modes.

By combining V-Ray’s Viewport IPR and Forest Pack’s Item Editor mode, you can even select individual scattered items and manipulate them directly in the rendered view.

What's new in Forest Pack 6.1.5

Improvements

- Added compatibility with V-Ray Next Update 1.

- Improved stability with V-Ray IPR and added several improvement, including:

- Added support for Viewport IPR mode.

- Items now can be edited on Custom Edit mode while using V-Ray IPR.

- Forest Color's randomise by Element mode now works during IPR mode even when Display mode is set to Proxy.

- Fixed a crash that occurred when hiding or isolating objects during a V-Ray IPR render.

- When rendering using IPR mode in Corona, Forest Pack objects no longer disappear in the viewports.

- Network Licenses are now released on New File and Reset events in Max.

- Improved scattering performance and memory usage with small/medium distributions.

- Improved performance when loading objects with high material ID values.

- "LibraryDir" and "EffectsDir" can now be defined using environment variables (ITOO_SOFTWARE_FOREST_PACK_PRO_LIBRARYDIR, ITOO_SOFTWARE_FOREST_PACK_PRO_EFFECTSDIR ). They accept a single path entry.

Fixes

- Removed support for 3DS Max 2012. Forest Pack 6.1.5 is compatible with Max 2013 to 2019.

- Fixed the alignment of the first item on closed splines when using Distribution by Path mode.

- Fixed Distribution by Path using spacing zero generates the maximum number of items defined on Display limits.

- Fixed an issue where animated Effects parameters were not updating correctly.

- Fixed an error that occurred when configuration is defined by environment variables, but the HKCU registry branch doesn't exist.

- Fixed performance issue loading objects with high material ID values.

- Fixed a crash that occurred when adding items in Custom Edit when Geometry List is empty.

- Fixed a bug computing the hierarchy of Elements in Custom Objects (used for Forest Color/Edge Mode).

About ForestPack.

ForestPack is the world’s most popular scattering plugin for 3ds Max. It provides a complete solution for creating vast areas of objects, from trees and plants to buildings, crowds, aggregates, ground-cover, rocks and more. If you can model it, Forest Pack can scatter it.

Countless studios rely on Forest Pack ’s production-tested algorithms and native shaders to render scenes with virtually unlimited numbers of objects and polygons, all without putting a strain on computer resources.

Simulate natural distribution patterns and get the most out of your assets using advanced mapping and randomisation tools, or fine-tune your scatters with granular control over every aspect of the plugin.

About iToo Software.

Itoo Software, founded in 1999 in Spain, is a 3D software developing company, and creators of Forest Pack and RailClone, plugins for Autodesk 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design. Our main objective is customers? satisfaction with our product, providing a high quality software and personalized support.

Product:

ForestPack

Version:

6.1.5 Pro with Library

Supported Architectures:

x64

Language:

english

System Requirements:

PC

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 7even or newer

Software Prerequisites:

Autodesk 3ds Max 2018 - 2019

Size:

1.7 Gb