v1.0.44 Laubwerk Plants Kit 4 – Subtropical Trees

Laubwerk Plants Kit 4 – Subtropical Trees

The following 10 tree species are included in the Plants Kit 4. Each species comes in 36 variations per species, i.e. 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasonal aspects, for a total of 360 models per Kit.

Silver wattle
Acacia dealbata

Fast growing medium-sized evergreen tree or shrub with wide spreading branches and an overall rounded or pyramidal habit. Fantastic floral display in late winter through early spring. Abundant scented flowers are pale to bright canary yellow pompons, in round clusters arranged in a raceme. Fern-like, bluish-grey-green foliage is alternately arranged on the stems and bi-pinnately compound. Fruit is a green thin and twisted pod, reddish-brown at maturity. Smooth bark is gray to silver-gray or brown. Widely introduced in Mediterranean, warm temperate, and highland tropical landscapes. Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Persian silk tree
Albizia julibrissin

A short tree with a broad crown of level or arching branches. The tree is a popular ornamental tree due to its attractive bipinnate, fern-like leaves and clusters of thread-like pink and white flowers that last throughout the summer. It attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

Japanese camellia
Camellia japonica

Beautiful small evergreen tree or large shrub grown for it’s magnificent display of fragrant rose-like blooms in late winter to early spring. Flower petals of wild plants are typically deep red with prominent cluster of yellow orange stamens. Fruits are nearly perfectly round before opening, starting out apple green and maturing into a purple-red. Simple elliptical to ovate leaves are deep green, leathery, and very glossy. Leaves are alternately arranged. Bark is of even gray color and smooth. In nature, it is subcanopy tree. It flourishes in shaded or semi-shaded positions, and sheltered in cold climates.

Orange
Citrus x sinensis

Small to medium-sized evergreen, flowering tree of compact growing habit. Glossy dark green foliage with oval leaves, alternately arranged. Fragrant small flowers are waxy greenish-white. Round fruits consist of a leathery peel and are green when unripe, then turn bright orange or yellow-orange when ripe. The tree is a hybrid, possibly between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and mandarin (Citrus reticulata), which has been cultivated in China since ancient times. Nowadays, Orange trees have been the most cultivated tree fruit in the world widely grown in tropical and subtropical climates.

Mediterranean cypress
Cupressus sempervirens

Medium-sized to large coniferous evergreen tree with a conic, typically very narrow columnar crown. The dark green foliage grows in dense sprays. The seed cones are ovoid or oblong, green at first, maturing brown about 2 years after pollination. The dark green “exclamation mark” tree shape is considered as characteristic signature of Mediterranean landscapes. Trees are very long-lived.

Cockspur coral tree
Erythrina crista-galli

Small showy tree or shrub with rounded or umbrella-like spreading shape. Woody trunk with irregular, spiny branches. Deciduous, with trifoliate dark green leaves that turn golden in fall. Big red, fragrant flowers with long blooming and strong flavored nectar that attracts insects. Fruits are brown pods fruiting in summer or autumn. National tree of Argentina and its flower is the national flower of Argentina and Uruguay.

New Zealand pohutukawa
Metrosideros excelsa

Magnificent large coastal evergreen tree with dome-like spreading shape. The usually multi-trunked tree produces a brilliant display of vibrant crimson color flowers made up of a mass of stamens in summer. Leaves that are a dark greenish blue on top and felted white beneath. The slow-growing but vigorous, easy to grow, and long-living tree even adapts on rocky cliffs. The tree is endemic to New Zealand, where its peak of the bloom is in mid to late December, hence has become an established part of the local Christmas tradition.

Canary Island date palm
Phoenix canariensis

Large solitary, tree-like palm with a stout trunk and a rounded crown. Long, deep green feather leaves are pinnately divided into many linear segments. Drooping panicles of creamy-yellow flowers are followed by small oval reddish-yellow drupes. Palms are often pruned and trimmed to enhance the appearance; then the bottom of the crown appears to have a pineapple shape. Because of its beauty, adaptability and hardiness is one of the most widely-planted palms on Earth. The palm has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Stone pine
Pinus pinea

Attractive coniferous evergreen tree with a majestic broad crown with an almost mushroom like canopy that becomes broader and flatter in maturity. In youth, it is a bushy globe. Large clear trunk with an intense red bark at maturity. Adult needle-like flexible leaves are mid-green and longer than the glaucous blue-green juvenile leaves. The cones are broad and ovoid. The tree has been used and cultivated for their edible pine nuts since prehistoric times. This pine brings a distinctively different form to many landscapes and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Pomegranate
Punica granatum

Attractive small fruit tree, sometimes a shrub that is much-branched, long-living, and deciduous. The green leaves are opposite, leathery, and glossy. The small, lanceolate leaf is red when sprouting, and turns a characteristic yellow before exfoliation. The flower is bright red, large, prominent and beautiful. The apple-like, edible fruit is at first green, and later basically yellow more or less overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red. The decorative fruit has a tough, leathery rind.

Update 1.0.44 (March 21, 2023)

SketchUp

• Added support for SketchUp 2023
• Added support for V-Ray for SketchUp 6.00.02
• Added 2D Face-Me plant proxy shape option to SketchUp for all plants
• Bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements

Cinema 4D

• Updated Redshift material converter to use the new Standard Material
• Bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements

Maya

• Fixed a bug with V-Ray materials
• Bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements

Python

• Added support for Python 3.10 and 3.11
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Update 1.0.43  (Nov 24, 2022)

Laubwerk Plants

• Added Butterfly bush ‘Pablo Purple’ (Buddleja davidii ‘Pablo Purple’) to the Plants Kit Freebie

SketchUp

• Added support for V-Ray 6
• New SketchUp plant proxy preview colors that reflect plant variants and seasons

Cinema 4D

• Added support for Cinema 4D 2023 and Cinema 4D R25
• Added support for V-Ray 6
• Added support for Corona Renderer physical material
• Added support for Octane Universal Material

3ds Max

• Added support for V-Ray 6
• Added support for Corona Renderer physical material

Maya

• Added support for Maya 2023
• Dropped support for Maya versions older than 2018
• Added support for V-Ray 6
• Fixed a bug that was breaking Arnold shaders in high quality setting

Python

• Various bug fixes and improvements

Update 1.0.41  (April 5, 2022)

SketchUp

• Added support for SketchUp 2022
• Added native Apple Silicon (M1 processors) support on SketchUp Pro 2022.
• Fixed a bug that delayed new plant proxies from appearing in the active model window in some SketchUp versions

Cinema 4D

• Added support for Arnold Renderer 4.0.0.2 fixing material issues
• Fixed issues with Laubwerk Plants in projects saved with ‘Save Project with Assets…”

3ds Max

• Added 3ds Max 2023 support
• Fixed the texture map assignments for the new CoronaPhysicalMaterial in Corona 7

Maya

• No changes

Update 1.0.40  (Nov 26, 2021)

SketchUp

• Added compatibility to V-Ray 5 for SketchUp, update 2.1 (5.20.02)

Other platforms

• No changes

Update 1.0.39  (Sep 20, 2021)

Cinema 4D

• Added support for Cinema 4D R25 including new icons and UI updates
• Miscellaneous other bug fixes

Maya

• Fixed a bug for texture color spaces and improved Redshift materials
• Miscellaneous other bug fixes

Python

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

3ds Max and SketchUp

• No changes

Update 1.0.37 (March 2021)

3ds Max

• Added 3ds Max 2022 support

SketchUp

• Updated and expanded the help for our SketchUp Player
• Fixed a bug with V-Ray 2 rendering in SketchUp

Python

• Added support for Python 3.9
• Fixed an issue that the Python 2 Extension didn’t load on newer macOS versions

Update 1.0.36 (December 2020)

• SketchUp: Added V‑Ray 5 for SketchUp support
• Minor bug fixes (SketchUp only)

Update 1.0.35 (November 27, 2020)

• SketchUp: Added SketchUp 2021 support. Note: highest V-Ray version supported: 4.20.03 (V-Ray 5 support coming soon)
• Cinema 4D: Various bug fixes and small improvements
• All platforms: Bug fixes and improvement of Arnold Renderer support, bug fixes for V-Ray materials

Note for our customers who use V-Ray for SketchUp:

• Laubwerk Plants do not yet fully support V-Ray 5. With V-Ray 5, Chaos Group released a very powerful upgrade, but it contains major changes that need to be reflected in the Laubwerk Player Plugin. We are currently working closely with Chaos Group to ensure Laubwerk Plants and V-Ray 5 continue to work seamlessly together. Please stay tuned!

Update 1.0.34  (October 29, 2020)

Cinema 4D

• Added R23 support
• Improved Arnold Renderer support
• Fixed a bug with Octane materials

SketchUp

• Bug fixes

All platforms:

• Support for version 1.3 Laubwerk materials

Update 1.0.33 (June 6, 2020)

Laubwerk Plants

• Higher resolution textures for large objects such as trunks. Material coverage information is now used to deliver textures in a resolution that much better matches the actual size of the texture on the object

Cinema 4D

• Added Cinema 4D S22 support (pre-release of R22)

SketchUp

• Added a dialog and checkbox that lets users save their preference for replacing or adding new plants, when a plant is already selected.
• Added a dialog and checkbox that lets users save their preference for receiving renderer minimum version warnings.
• Improved the Plant Attribute Editor’s default plant preview image and button behavior.
• Many other UI improvements to all dialogs.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash with users that have very high processor counts.

Update 1.0.32 (March 2020)

• Added Redshift support for Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Maya
• Added SketchUp 2020 support
• Added Maya 2020 support

Update 1.0.30 (September 2019)

• Cinema 4D: Added R21 support, Improved material specular component for most renderers
• SketchUp: Fixed a bug that caused SketchUp to crash when rendering models containing plants removed from the user’s plant library, Improved material specular component for V-Ray
• 3ds Max: Improved material specular component for most renderers
• Maya: Improved material specular component for most renderers

Update 1.0.29 (April 2019)

Autodesk

• Added 3ds Max 2020 support
• Fixed an issue with opacity maps in Arnold Renderer for 3ds Max
• Added Maya 2019 support

Update 1.0.28 (March 25, 2019)

SketchUp

• Added SketchUp Pro 2019 support
• Added V-Ray Next for SketchUp support
• Improved UI design and performance
• Fixed a bug that caused SketchUp to crash when rendering a startup model with Thea.
• Added macOS support for our Python extension.
• Improved macOS installers with installer certification, and better detection of  installed applications.

Update 1.0.27 (October 18, 2018)

3ds Max

• Updated Octane material converter and Octane 4 glossy materials
• Added the replacement behavior section to the help document

Cinema 4D

• Added Cinema 4D R20 support
• Fixed a bug with reflectance roughness was not being set properly in inbuilt renderers

SketchUp

• Fixed a bug that caused V-Ray renders to fail with non-Latin characters in Windows usernames (e.g. “ü”, “ñ”, or “é”).

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.26? ( July 19, 2018)

SketchUp

• Snappier Laubwerk browser
• Added support for consistent copy & paste from another SketchUp instance
• V-Ray 2.x support is back. Fixed a bug in the player extension
• Fixed a bug in material quality selection. The selected quality is now always applied at render time
• Fixed a bug in the player extension for SketchUp Japanese that prevented switching between model variants and seasons
• Known issues: special characters in Windows user names prevent running the player extension (Ruby error)

3ds Max

• Added support for 3ds Max 2019
• Added Arnold 5 support
• Fixed a bug in Laubwerk material creation for V-Ray RT
• Fixed a bug that caused the ART renderer to crash
• Fixed a bug that caused 3ds Max to crash when double-clicking inside the Laubwerk browser where there are no plants

Maya

• Added Arnold 5 support
• Dropped support for Maya 2014
• Known issues: MacOS X Player plugin doesn’t work with Maya 2018.2

Cinema 4D

• Updated Arnold 5 support to Arnold core version 5.1
• Dropped support for pre-R15 versions

Laubwerk Plants

• Acer campestre (Kit Freebie) – improved the shapes (habitus) of several tree variants for a head-free crown base height

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.25?

• SketchUp: Support for SketchUp Pro 2018, support for V-Ray 3.6, support for MacOS X High Sierra (10.13). Bug fix with special characters in Windows 10 users names
• Maya: Bug fix for Maya 2018 support
• 3ds Max: Fix a bug that crashed 3ds Max when adding an empty Plant object to the scene on autosave, bug fixed a bug that a Plant replacement in the Browser did not refresh the viewport, improved behavior when a new Plant is assigned and all selected Plant objects are empty
• Cinema 4D: R19 support, added support for Arnold 5

Laubwerk Plants Kits Update 1.0.24 is an important update for our users of Trimble SketchUp, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Autodesk Maya.

Highlights of the Plants Kit 1.0.24 update are:

• SketchUp: Several improvements and bug fixes, e.g. Plants can be replaced through the Laubwerk Browser, editing of parameters of multiple Plants at the same time. Multiple material quality profiles.
• Added support for Autodesk 3ds Max 2018 and Maya 2018
• 3ds Max: Improved Laubwerk Browser, bug fix of the edit mesh modifier
• Maya: Enabled color management for file nodes, bug fixes.
• Cinema 4D and Houdini: No changes.

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.23? (January 31st, 2017)

• Added support Thea for SketchUp for Windows and OS X. Compatible with Skatter for SketchUp
• Laubwerk Player plugin for SketchUp (2014-2017) with many bug fixes, improved RAM usage, performance, and user interface
• 3ds Max: Fixed a major bug that V-Ray distributed rendering failed on slave machines
• Maya: Bug fix for V-Ray high quality materials, improved Skeleton mode, faster rendering

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.22?

SketchUp (new)

• Introducing the Laubwerk Player plugin for SketchUp (2014 – 2017) for Windows and OS X and the latest versions of V-Ray 2 and V-Ray 3
• Compatible with Skatter for SketchUp

3ds Max

• Added a dialog box that asks whether a selected Plant(s) should be replaced or should a new Plant object be created
• Added Arnold support
• Improved Corona Render support, e.g. now Plant objects are derived from GeomObject instead of SimpleObject2
• Improved speculars in Scanline renderer materials
• Improved the behavior of the Laubwerk browser, now the window does not closes itself anymore when a Plant object is replaced or created
• Fixed a bug that made 3dsmax crash when an empty Plant object is assigned to a Plant
• Fixed a bug that in Skeleton mode crashed the measure utility
• Fixed a bug that by replacing a tree through the browser reseted the variation setting

Maya

• Fixed a bug with changing seasons and variant attributes, which did not update the user interface

Cinema 4D

• Fixed a bug with Thea Render. Now, the texture group parameters for the base material are being set properly.

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.21? (August 7, 2016)

Release 1.0.21 introduces:

Common

• Improved the translation of specular highlight size and intensity for mental ray/iray

Maya

• This version now supports Maya 2017 and 2016.5 (Extension 2) for Windows and OS X (Linux download on request)
• Selecting a plant in the Laubwerk Browser with a plant node selected now replaces the species in the selected node
• Added a search field to the Laubwerk Browser
• The path to the plant library is now stored as an option variable
• Fixed a bug with the Create Laubwerk Plant command
• Fixed a bug with adding a plant from the Laubwerk Browser caused by backslash characters
• Fixed a bug with the Laubwerk file->open command
• Fixed a bug which by deleting unused nodes dropped all materials that weren’t used in the convex hull mode. That had also caused wrong material assignments (only colored green) on trunk and some leaves

Cinema 4D

• This version now supports Cinema 4D R 18 for Windows and OS X

Houdini

• This version now supports Houdini 14-15.5 for Windows (Linux download on request)
• Fixed a bug that the Laubwerk Browser panel failed to open

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.20? (June 23, 2016)

• Added support for Autodesk Maya (2014-2016) on Windows & OS X including materials for V-Ray, iray, mental ray, Maya Software, Arnold, Maxwell Render, OctaneRender
• Added support for Autodesk 3ds Max 2017
• Added a fifth free species to the Plants Kit Freebie, the Kentia palm (Howea forsteriana), a popular and elegant plant for subtropical and tropical climates and indoor
• Improved look of two species of the Plants Kits Freebie: Improved habit of the twigs and inflorescence of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius) models and improved trunk material of the Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) models

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.19? (January 26, 2016)

Cinema 4D

• Added support for Otoy OctaneRender.
• Added compatibility for Cinema 4D R17 Team Render.
• Added compatibility for Thea Render 1.5.x.

3ds Max

• Added support for Otoy OctaneRender.

What’s new in plants kit 1.0.18? (October 25, 2015)

Cinema 4D

• Fixed a Cinema 4D R17 problem with Help, which now opens correctly.

3ds Max

• Added full Japanese language support.
• Added support for iray mdl materials.
• Set names of texture maps by texture names.
• Fixed a bug with V-Ray materials in high-quality mode that now have the same brightness as in medium quality.
• Fixed a bug for 3ds Max 2016 that now prevents crashes when using Forest Pack.
• Fixed a bug for model files, which now get exported when saving as archive.
• Fixed a bug with manual setting of asset paths.

What is New in Plants Kits 1.0.17:

Cinema 4D

• Added support for Cinema 4D R17.
• Fixed a bug with 2-sided materials in VRAYforC4D.
• Thumbnails now use Retina resolution when available.
• Enabled “Show custom parameters” option when creating Arnold tags.
• Added support for integrated alpha channel when using latestet Arnold version (1.0.5.0 C4DtoA).

For all platforms

• Textures are now delivered with straight alpha instead of premultiplied.

What is New in Plants Kits 1.0.16

Release 1.0.16 introduces, along with the regular set of fixes and improvements:

Cinema 4D

• Improved integration with Team Render.
• Added support for the Arnold Renderer.
• Improved Maxwell material setups.
• Added Maxwell material thumbnails.

3ds Max / 3ds Max Design

• Improved Maxwell material setups.
• Materials now use V-Ray 3 Opacity Mode when available.
• Added a check for 3ds Max 2015 SP1 (Installer).
• Fixed some problems with special characters in the Laubwerk Plants library path.
• Fixed some problems with the browser not displaying correctly in some
• cases.
• Resolved some 3ds Max 2016 display problems.

What is New in Plants Kits 1.0.15

Release 1.0.15 introduces, along with the regular set of fixes and improvements:

Cinema 4D

• Added support for Maxwell Render for Cinema 4D.
• Change season, variant, or species of multiple selected plant objects at once.
• Extended importer dialog.
• Fixed bug in 1.0.14 where materials created with high quality had wrong reflectance type.

3ds Max / 3ds Max Design

• Added support for Maxwell Render for 3ds Max.
• Added support for 3ds Max 2016.
• Extended importer dialog.

Houdini

• Significant performance improvement loading plant objects.
• Added Laubwerk Browser with drag-and-drop function.

What is New in Plants Kits 1.0.14

Along with the regular set of fixes and improvements for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, and Python (Windows) the new release introduces:

• Ensured compatibility with Corona Renderer 1.0 for 3ds Max.
• Added support for Thea Render for 3ds Max.
• Added full German language support for 3ds Max (2015).
• Fixed compatibility issues with VRAYforC4D.

What’s New in version 1.0.13

• Much more efficient rendering with many instances of Plant objects in V-Ray for 3ds Max.
• Faster and more reliable Plant Library Browser.
• Improved field maple (Acer campestre) with better looking branch tips (Plants Kit Freebie).
• Added support for Thea Render for Cinema 4D.
• Improved help documents.

CINEMA 4D

• Added Czech localization for both the Plugin Player and all Plants Kits.
• Added preliminary support for Corona Renderer. Currently, Corona has not yet addressed an issue to allow polygon selections and embedded alpha. Converting Laubwerk Plants to meshes is a workaround.
• Improved file handling with Team Renderer, i.e. files are no longer been copied multiple times.
• Improved handling of plant objects in animations, i.e. plant objects don’t regenerate geometry for every animation frame.
• Fixed bug on the Mac that accidentally delivered 1.0.10 binaries with 1.0.11.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Cinema 4D to freeze when adding plants using the layer selection.

3ds Max / 3ds Max Design

• Added support for Corona Renderer.
• Added support for more Undo operations.
• Improved Laubwerk Browser, which is now multithreaded, and caches thumbnails.

Python

• Added support for Python 2.6 (Windows).
• Added Houdini Player beta (Windows) to Plants Kit installer.