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Temperate Shrubs

A selection of both popular and attractive temperate shrubs and bushes species planted in parks, gardens, and rural landscapes including excellent shrubs with profuse floral display in spring such as Japanese quince, bridal wreath, and common lilac, the autumn-blooming common witch-hazel and the purple Japanese barberry, which brings a strong color accent to gardens and landscapes.

10 shrubs species of Laubwerk Plants in 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasons each, for architects and CG artists working in 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, and Trimble Sketchup Up.

Laubwerk Plants Kits allow architects, CG artists, and VXF specialists to insert photorealistic tree models into their 3D scenes quickly and easily, without the usual slow downs due to overly complicated parameters or excess memory usage. Laubwerk accomplishes this goal by giving users just the right amount of variation in their 3D tree models, without overwhelming the user or their computer. Each tree model comes in 3 shapes, with 3 ages, and 4 seasons per shape. Adjustable level of detail settings means that each tree looks great without slow navigation or long rendering times.

3D Plants for CG Artists

Laubwerk offers easy-to-use software extensions for architects and CG artists looking for authentic 3D plants, and plant scattering tools.

With drag-and-drop simplicity, and easy-to-use tools that modify the shape, age, season and level of detail for each of Laubwerk’s stunning 3D plants, users can seamlessly add 3D trees to any CG project. For Autodesk 3ds Max & Maya, MAXON Cinema 4D, Trimble SketchUp, and Python.

 

Includes 360 Models

All Laubwerk Plants in this Kit come in 36 variations per species, i.e. 3 variants, 3 ages and 4 seasons. Here are a few examples of the variety:

plants kit 9 summer

Spring & summer: 10 out of 360 temperate deciduous tree models of Laubwerk Plants Kit 9.

 

plants kit 9 autumn

Autumn: 10 out of 360 temperate deciduous tree models of Laubwerk Plants Kit 9.

 

plants kit 9 lilac

Common lilac (Syringa vulgaris). CG artwork by Mario Kelterbaum using Cinema 4D, Otoy OctaneRender, and Laubwerk Plants Kit 9).

Includes Free Laubwerk Player

The free Laubwerk Player plugin comes bundled with each of the Laubwerk Plants Kits.

Use the Laubwerk Player to easily load and control plant models inside Autodesk 3ds Max & Maya, MAXON Cinema 4D, and Trimble SketchUp. Just drag-and-drop your 3D tree, set the shape, age, and season and level of detail control. Watch the lightning fast rendering with inbuilt and 3rd parts renderer support.

Laubwerk Player Plugin

Inserting, controlling and rendering great-looking 3D tree models has never been easier with the Laubwerk Player plugin! The Laubwerk Player provides immediate visual access to your Laubwerk plant library. You get multiple drawing options in the viewport (like simple hull shape or skeleton) for quick feedback and low memory usage while editing your scene. And when you’re satisfied, watch the Laubwerk Player dynamically render fully-detailed plant models at amazing speeds, with automatic default materials and level of detail.

Plant Library Browser

The Plant Library Browser appears right in the 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, or SketchUp main menu and provides direct access to the Laubwerk Plants installed on your computer. Drag-and-drop your 3D tree species into your scene or replace existing trees. Loading the plants through the Plant Library Browser directly creates materials with basic shading and textures preassigned, saving you time and memory while you work.

Plant Object

The Plant Object represents a Laubwerk plant model in your scene by using low-memory hull or skeleton mode for easy placement. It dynamically loads the model’s age and shape that you chose, creating a simple viewport approximation that allows you to apply model alterations and adjust level of detail settings. Laubwerk Plant Objects are fully scriptable using MaxScript.

V-Ray Support

Dedicated support of V-Ray saves you time and memory. Instead of manually converting Laubwerk Plant Objects into V-Ray proxies, the Plant Object detects when V-Ray is used for rendering and dynamically creates the model’s geometry during rendering. This is the exact same process V-Ray uses for V-Ray proxies, just automatically applied without any manual setup.

Renderer Support

Materials and textures are created on the fly – for the built-in renderer or third-party renderers.

  • For 3ds Max, Maya, and Cinema 4D: mental ray, iray, Maxwell Render, Thea Render, Arnold, OctaneRender, Corona Renderer and Redshift.
  • For SketchUp: V-Ray for SketchUp and Thea Render for SketchUp.

Laubwerk Advantage

  • Plug and Play – One-click solution for architects and CG artists who need realistic 3D trees, immediately.
  • Fast and Fluent – Render-ready 3D trees minimize the need for finetuning that can otherwise interrupt your workflow.
  • Easy and Integrated – Drag-and-drop plants inside 3ds Max & Maya, and MAXON Cinema 4D, or Trimble SketchUp.
  • Intuitive – Simple settings are a mouse click away.
  • Smart Content – Go beyond static models! Choose the shape, age, season and detail of each tree.
  • High Tech – Laubwerk technology minimizes the usual compromise between high-quality graphics and efficient memory usage.

Realistic 3D Tree Models

Laubwerk uses a hybrid of procedural modeling and hand-detailing by botanist and 3D artists to make the most realistic CG trees.

  • Render-ready materials and textures are created on the fly – for the built-in renderer (3ds Max, Maya & Cinema 4D), or third-party renderers such as V-Ray, mental ray, iray, Maxwell Render, Thea Render, Arnold, OctaneRender, and Corona Renderer.
  • Leaves consist of more than just a single polygon, so they bend and catch highlights.
  • Textures are based on high quality photos from real trees.
  • Models maintain shape and density, regardless of detail level.

The following 10 shrubs and bushes species are included in the Plants Kit 9. 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.

barberryPurple Japanese barberry
Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’

Small, deciduous shrub with a dense, arching, broad-rounded shape. Spiny, brown stems and green to redish shoots. Broadly oval, reddish-purple leaves that turn into attractive shades of orange, yellow and red in autumn. Tiny, scented, pale yellow flowers appear from mid spring to early summer. Glossy red berries, which are attractive to birds, mature during late summer and autumn and often persist through the winter. This ornamental shrub is always a spectacular addition to gardens and landscapes where it brings a strong color accent from spring to even winter.

 

quinceJapanese quince
Chaenomeles japonica

 

Low-growing, thorny, densely-branched, deciduous shrub with an upright, spreading shape. Spiny, often-tangled, gray-brown twigs. Coarsely-toothed, broad-oval, green leaves. Five-petaled, orange-scarlet flowers bloom before the leaves unfold in late winter/early spring. Small, apple-shaped fruits (commonly called quinces) of greenish-yellow color turn golden-yellow color and ripen in early autumn. Ripe fruits are fragrant. Best known for its bloom in profusion for a few weeks creating a showy floral display.

 

cherryCornelian cherry
Cornus mas

 

Slow-growing, deciduous large shrub, rarely a small tree with a wide, horizontal, bushy, pendent, shaggy habit. Dark brown branches and greenish twigs. Scaly, exfoliating bark develops on mature trunks. Oposite, ovate to elliptic, glossy green leaves above and pale green below turning yellow-orange in autumn. Sweet-smelling, yellow flowers on short stalks bloom in late winter to early spring before the leaves emerge in dense, showy, rounded clusters (umbels). Ellipsoid, scarlet-coloured, cherry-sized fruits and mature to cherry red in mid-summer. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit in 1924.

 

deutziaSlender deutzia
Deutzia gracilis

 

Small, deciduous shrub with an erect and bushy habit and slender, broadly spreading to arching stems. Brown to red-brown bark and yelow-green twigs. Opposite, ovate to lanceolate, deep green leaves turning yellow-brown in autumn. Tiny, fragrant, bell-shaped, white flowers in upright, numerous loose racemes appear in spring and early summer. Spectacular bloom puts on an effective springtime display, quite unremarkable the rest of the year. Attractive to bees and butterflies.

 

witchhazelCommon witch-hazel
Hamamelis virginiana

 

Autumn-blooming, deciduous shrub or small tree with arching branches, often with a dense cluster of stems from its base, with an open, wide vase-shaped habit. Grey-brown, smooth bark. Oval to obovate, hairy, medium to dark green leaves and paler below with wavy margins turning yellow-orange to orange-red in autumn. Stem-hugging clusters of fragrant, pale-yellow, sometimes orange or reddish, scented, spidery flowers. Fruits are greenish seed capsules that become woody and light brown with age.

 

azaleaJapanese dwarf azalea
Rhododendron ‘Amoena’

 

Small, evergreen shrub with a upright, dense, compact spreading habit. Brown bark. Small, oval, midgreen leaves. Masses of brash, showy, magenta-pink blooms in spring. This neat, attractive azalea is prized for the clusters of profuse spring flowers that literally cover the plant.

 

bridal wreathBridal wreath
Spiraea x vanhouttei

 

Medium-sized, deciduous shrub, vase-shaped with dense branching that arches gracefully toward the ground, ground, making an open airy mounded habit. Smooth, brown bark. Small, rhombic to obovate, coarsely serrate, dark blue-green, alternate leaves. Autumn leaf color is usually undistinguished but attractive purplish hues may sometimes develop. Tiny white flowers in umbellate clusters profusely cover the leafy branching in spring. Particularly noted for its showy spring bloom.

 

snowberrySnowberry
Symphoricarpos albus

 

Small, deciduous shrub with a bushy, rounded habit forming a neat thicket with arching branches. Smooth, grey-brown bark. Oblong-elliptic to rounded, opposite, dull green leaves, underside blue-green, differing in size and shape, producing little fall color. Tiny, bell-shaped, white to pink flowers bloom in clusters in summer and attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Flowers are followed by clusters of fleshy berry-like drupes, initially pale green then ripen to pure white by late summer to early autumn. Fruits remain attractive on the naked winter stem.

 

common lilacCommon lilac
Syringa vulgaris

 

Large, deciduous shrub or multi-stemmed small tree with an upright, vase-shaped, semi open habit. Grey to grey-brown bark, smooth on young stems, longitudinally furrowed, and flaking on older stems. Simple leafs are light green to glaucous, pointed-ovate to heart-shaped, opposite, cordate turning yellow to bronze-red in autumn. Strongly scented, tubular, four-lobed flowers, usually lilac to mauve, or white, which bloom in mid to late spring in large conical to narrow-pyramidal panicles. Flowers give way to loose clusters of smooth, brown, flattened seed capsules, which persist into winter if not removed.

 

eva rathkeWeigela ‘Eva Rathke’
Weigela ‘Eva Rathke’

 

Medium-sized, deciduous shrub with a dense, upright, wide overhanging habit. Grey-brown bark. Very dark green and showy leaves with serrate margins, insignificant autumn color. Trumpet-shaped flowers are carmine, buds dark crimson. Flowers open in cymes of three or four and bloom profusely in late spring, with a sparse and scattered repeat bloom often occurring in mid to late summer. Flowers are attractive to hummingbirds. Fruit is inconspicuous.

Computer Hardware

A computer that is capable of running your version(s) of 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, SketchUp.

Hard Disk Space

10MB of hard disk space and additional space for the Laubwerk Plants models.

Supported Hosts


  • Autodesk 3ds Max (2015-2024)

  • Autodesk Maya (2018-2024, Win & Mac, Linux on request)

  • MAXON Cinema 4D (R16-S26, 2023 Mac & Win)

  • SketchUp (2014-2023, Mac & Win)

    • with V-Ray for SketchUp

    • or Thea Render for SketchUp




  • Vectorworks 2023

  • Additionally, Python for customers to build their own importers into applications compatible with Python for Windows 2.7, 3.3- 3.4, MacOS X 3.5-3.8, Linux 3.4-3.8.

Installation Instructions


Our aim is to make the installation process as easy as possible for you. If you like to get more information, we have compiled these Laubwerk Plants Kits installation instructions, including advanced topics such as considerations when working in a network.

Update 1.0.48 (December 22, 2023)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause SketchUp to crash when loading the Laubwerk Player
  • Fixed a bug that could cause problems with V-Ray for SketchUp
  • Fixed a bug that prevented plant common names from appearing in the Asset Editor in SketchUp
  • Changed the new default material quality in the Cinema 4D and 3ds Max Laubwerk Browser from medium to high
  • Proxy mesh colors in 3ds Max now change based on the selected plant variant and season

Update 1.0.47 (November 15, 2023)

  • Support for Cinema 4D 2024
  • Fixed a bug affecting the Plant Library Browser in SketchUp 2018 and earlier
  • Small bug fixes and improvements for 3ds Max, SketchUp, and Cinema 4D

Update 1.0.46 (July 17, 2023)

  • Support for additional seasonal names introduced with Kit 18
  • Small bug fixes and improvements for 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, and Python

Update 1.0.45 (June 19, 2023)

Maya

  • Added Maya 2024 support
  • Bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements

3ds Max

  • Added 3ds Max 2024 support
  • Bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements

Cinema 4D

  • Fixed a bug that caused problems with Cinema 4D files saved with earlier versions
  • Bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements

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

What’s New in Laubwerk Plants Kits Update 1.0.24

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.
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