The Plant Factory (TPF) is an innovative plant-making software designed by e-On Software. It can be used to design any plant from grasses to complex trees.
The Plant Factory tutorials
The Plant Factory is available for free from the Bently System website, along with The Plant Catalog: a series of pre-made and highly configurable plants.
PF2B is a Blender plugin that enables direct import from The Plant Factory.
Creating a tree using Megascans maps
In The Plant Factory, realistic looking trees can be created with a few nodes and appropriate parameters. Megascans maps add realism..
Creating a plant with Megascan maps
Megascan maps are very detailed and include some leaf textures. This tutorial shows how to adapt them to create plants in the Plant Factory..
Low polygon tree with the Plant Factory
Detailed tree models are typically more than 20K polygons. Even with modern software, they can be heavy to load for busy scene. Here is a simple process to create a 6000 polygon tree with The Plant Factory..