Free software for creation of 3D plants :

Algoritmic Botany VLAB/L-STUDIO Powerful L-System based editor	Algoritmic Botany Tree Sketch Interactive tree painting on iPad	Ivy Genrator Simple but powerful	ngPlant opensource live project MODELS
ATree3D 3DMAX Script	Frecle Tree [D] Tree editor OBJ	TReal Abandoned since 2003	Arbaro Tree editor POV Ray / OBJ	Plant Studio Old editor of small plants

Commercial software - complete standalone applications for creation of 3D vegetation :

The Plant Factory	Speed Tree	Xfrog standalone or plugin for Maya & C4D	Onyx

Commercial plugin or application specific software for creation of 3D vegetation :

GrowFX 3DMAX plugin	Trees/Leaves/Grass Designer Lightwave plugin	Paint Effects Maya module	Navie Plants C4D plugin	Mograph C4D module

Verdant Photoshop plugin	Vue Botanica Vue module

Other commercial software for addition of 3D plants into projects:

Laubwerk Plants Set of models for 3DSMAX or C4D	Lenne 3D Set of models for ArcGIS	Virtual Gardening/Bonsai	Unity Tree Creator Simplistic, for games	Silvador For VBS2 military simulations

Other software (very old - not updated, discontinued, no longer available etc...)

Forester Arboretum - Old POV Ray plant editor, very old looking interface and results

Tree Generator - Generates very simplistic unnatural looking 3D models of trees

Dryad - No longer available, very poor quality of models

Bionatics NatFX - Discontinued since march 2013

Plant Life - Outdated (works only on Windows XP32, Me, 2000, 98)

Treemagik - Creator of trees for games

Tree Druid - Seems defunct, OBJ , DXF, Carrara, Very simplistic models

Digimation Tree Factory - Made free in 2008, now discontinued

FREE :

Open Alea -Large scientific project

MS Procedural trees - Microsoft libraries for generation of trees

Tree Painter - Under developement

C4D Particle Roots - Short script to generate root like structures from particles.

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