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[Freebie] Collection Nature: vegetation, plants, ground, textures, landscape, 3D scans

Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
edited November 2018 in Art Studio

Hi and wellcome to my [Freebie] Collection Nature thread

This thread is all about nature themed freebie 2D/3D asset collections for various:

vegetation, plants, flowers, grass, bushes, trees, sticks, rocks, ground, landscapes, textures, 3D scans

 

Foreword

If you want to create outdoor renders of nature settings like grass land and forest you would need alot of different 3D assets.

Here I've gathered up some freebie recources covering this theme. Because I was in search of such items lately, I hope you like them and find something useful.

It is just amazing how much well made freebies you can get from talented people that share their work with us. I especialy like those 3D scans with a few of those you could create a realistic environment.

This should give you a good starting point to get various types of vegetation and diversity into your nature landscape rendrings.

Its up to you how you use them, I plan to use Blender to prepare some assets to convert and import them into Daz Studio. Maybe I will add a video how to do that in future.

Next I will multiply those assests with instancing and distribute them on a landscape surface with a script like UltraScatter Advanced Instancing for Daz Studio.

I hope that the freebie links do not violate the forum terms of use. The links will open a new browser tab, the preview pictures are scaled down to 440 pixels in width. Most times you click the preview picture to get to the download page. If those items are no longer free or not available anymore that is beyond my influence. If you want to use some of those freebies in your projects its always a good advice to keep an eye on the licensing.

 

Index Free Resources:

By clicking on a index entry here your browser will jump to the posts below. I'v added this index for easy navigation. With all the preview images this is a very long list to scroll though, so in case you got lost while scrolling just press the "Pos1" or "Home" key on your keyboard to jump back to this opening post, this should work in all browsers at least it works in Firefox.

 

Blend Swap

Here you can download Blender project files (.blend) those showcase technics and methods you can use in Blender. If you are familiar with Blender you can also extract those meshes to use them how you like.

 

Sketchfab 3D models collections

These include the 3D scans, the technic is called Photogrammetry - Wikipedia. Realy exiting stuff I wasn't aware of till lately.

 

TurboSquid

 

CGtrader

 

ShareCG

 

XFrog

 

Random Sources:

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Blend Swap

    Foreword

    This site is for Blender users who want to show and share thier work they did with the .blend project files. Those often showcase interesting technics and methods you can use in Blender.

    For to download the Blend Swap freebies you need an account and you get a limit of (currently) 20 downloads per month. No one likes such restrictions but if you read the text below you should understand it. With your account you can create collections and see your monthly downloads left, just create a collection and come back a month later and choose well what to download next.

    Unlimited Downloads

    A long time ago all Blend Swap users had full access to all the downloads on the site and all was good. The site kept growing it's users and then, one day, we had more users than it could serve for free; our server infrastructure became increasingly expensive and keeping the site online became difficult.

    To allow our users to keep growing and still give free downloads, we implemented caps on the amount of blends all users could get from the site each month. This allowed the site to serve everybody while keeping the assets for free, though access may not be immediate, you can still download every single asset for free if you wait long enough.

    We charge for unlimited downloads (and other cool features) because this is how the server and development is paid for. Blend Swap is a very big website, maintained by a single developer. Most of our income goes into paying developer fees and server expenses. This is why we charge for unlimited downloads and the enhanced set of features like private collections, advanced stats, no ads and so on.

    If you are not a paying member we would really appreciate if you disable any ad-blocking plugin you may have installed in your browser so we can get some more cents every month from ad revenue, which will help us keep the site running smoothly for every body.

    We thank you very much for your sustained support, specially to our Associate Members who keep the site up for everybody to enjoy.

    The Blend Swap Crew.

     

    Blend Swap: Tutorials

     

    "How to" Make Grass - Blender Cycles

    Cycles Grass 2 by Stalk (the .blend project file)

    Blender Tutorial: How to make a grass field?

    The grass field by Spelle (the .blend project file)

    For the 'procedural' tree generator addons have a look at here:

    Tree Generator Addons for Blender

    Procedural Clouds shader. Blender cycles by kilbeeu

    Fully procedural Cloud Shader for cycles - Watch the video to understand how it works.

    Procedural Texture Starfield by mclelun

    Starfield generated using nodes and procedural texture.

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Blend Swap: Grass and Plants

    Grassy Field

    Realistic Grass

    Realistic Grass Field

    Grass and trees system

    Low Poly Grass Patches (+LoD)

    Realistic grass

    Fern

    Library of plants

    white lotus flower

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Blend Swap: Trees and Bushes

    Tree

    Realistic High Poly Tree

    Trees & Bushes pack

    Low Poly Tree Next Gen

    Trees

    3 Different Realistic Trees

     

    3 Low Poly Trees

    Low-poly foliage

    Realistic Tree

    Low-Poly Tree

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Blend Swap: Landscapes

    Cycles Grass And Rock Shaders

    Foilage - The Battle Begins Assets

    Mountains

    Snowy mountain landscape

    Winterscape

    Sea Side View

    Desert Scene

    Desert

    Cycles Realistic Ocean

    Early Morning on a Country Road

    Boulder

    Forest Floor

     

    Realistic Forest with Cycles

     

    Forest

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Blend Swap: Rocks and Stone Brushes

    Dried Ground Brush

    stone brushes

    Cycles Procedural Rock Material + Sculpted Rock

    Realistic photoscanned stone or boulder

    Low Poly Rocks #2

    Rock Pack

    weathered rock - 1

    3 Low Poly Cliffs

    Low poly stone (subdividible)

    Low poly stone_2 (subdividible)

    Low Poly Stones

    Low Poly Desert Rock

    rock

    Lowpoly Stones

    Stone

    natural rock formation

    Mossy Rocks (Photoscanned)

    pebble pack 1 (photoscanned)

    Stone Pack 1 (photoscanned)

    Scanned Rock 3

    Rock / Stone Pack

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Blend Swap: Ground Textures

    Tileable Textures Pack 04

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Sketchfab

     

    No images to link this site uses a 3D browser plugin to show the content. Nevertheless very interesting 3D scans, check out the collections.

    Random others not included in a collection

    wood - a 3D models collection by serkows - Sketchfab

    Nature Scan - a 3D models collection by John Greenstone - Sketchfab

    Surfaces - a 3D models collection by John Greenstone - Sketchfab

    REF_Vegetation - a 3D models collection by DeMoon - Sketchfab

    3dhdscan Props - a 3D models collection by 3dhdscan - Sketchfab

    3dhdscan Nature - a 3D models collection by 3dhdscan - Sketchfab

    NATURE PACK - a 3D models collection by MGD Films - Sketchfab

    Lowpoly assets - a 3D models collection by Loïc Norgeot - Sketchfab

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  • handel_035c4ce6handel_035c4ce6 Posts: 460

    Thanks a lot. What you did is highly appreciated:-)

  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    TurboSquid

    https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/free/nature

    TurboSquid: Plants

    3D Small Nature Pack VOL1 model

    Grass Textured

    Low Poly Grass 3D model

    Plantain Grass

    Dandelion plant

    Lavender Plant 01

    Narcissus

    Berberys Orange model

    TurboSquid: Tree Oak

    Tree Oak V11

    Tree Oak V10

    Tree Oak V9

    Tree Oak V8

    Tree Oak V7

    Tree Oak V6

    Tree Oak V5

    Tree Oak V4

    Tree Oak V3

    Tree Oak V2

    Tree Oak V1

    Oak

    TurboSquid: Tree Fir

    Fir

    firtree 1

    firtree 3

    Lowpoly Spruce

    TurboSquid: Tree Other

    Low Poly Log

    Broadleaf Tree 02

    Broadleaf Tree 04

    Tree

    Rainforest Tree Custom Season 08

    tree2

    Stone Pine

    Pack Natureza Arvores e pedras model

    Tree 1

    Dead Tree Pack 3D

    TurboSquid: Landscape

    RealiScan Photogrammetry Free Sample

    OLD EXTINCT VOLCANO 02

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    CGtrader

    CGtrader: Plants

    Bamboo plant Free 3D model

    Areca Free low-poly 3D model

    Tropics flowers - Set 1

    Plant Berberys Garden Free low-poly

    Bee Balm flowers

    flowers

    CGtrader: Trees

    italian maple Free 3D model

    pine tree 22 m

    Silky Oak Grevillea robusta 2

    Downy Oak Quercus pubescens

    Japanese Oak

    Trees Free

    Oak Tree Free low-poly

    Bur Oak Tree

    Silky Oak Grevillea robusta 1

    RIGGED TREE D

    jungle backround Free low-poly

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Most trees already got leaves but what if you need them seperate? The season is changing and you may want to render autumn leaves. There are many commercial leave packs in a wide price range but here I have found a free alternative. There are many pictures of leaves of all kinds to find with a google search most of them are already cut out with transparent backround.

    Just add those textures to a primitive plane and use the Alpha Mask from these PNGs for the transparency in the shader settings. Then maybe subdivide the plane mesh a few times in your 3D moddeling application and bend parts of it in some degree to get a not too flat 3D look. You could even generate some extra shader textures like speculatity, bump, displacement, normal, what ever is needed with some extra tools. I just realized that if you had acces to a flat bed scanner you could scan in some samples from both sides.

    Textures Leaves

    https://texture.ninja/textures/Leaves/4

    Masked Leaf Textures

    https://www.textures.com/browse/leaves/1763

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    Tree Generator Addons for Blender

    Modular Tree

    This Blender addon allows you to create fully skinned, unwrapped trees. Its free so here is the github repository Modular Tree.

    Blender 2.79 Tree creation with Modular Tree addon - watch the youtube video to understand how it works.

    Old Tree Addon

    A procedual Tree generator script addon for Blender. Unfortunately its not available for free.

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    ShareCG

    In case you don't know the first place for me to search for freebies is ShareCG.com. They have a huge section of Poser and DazStudio compatible stuff so you don't have to convert anything if that is your target app.

    Its also good for to find free texture packs. There is a huge textures pack list available. I'm just posting the first or some random examples out of the series.

    Those packs are made by Yughues aka Nobiax  if you click on the link you get to his gallery and you see he's also doing Photogrammetry. Its as always if you like the free stuff support the artist so there will potentially be more free stuff released.

    4k Photogrammetric Forest Ground 10

    ShareCG: Tiling Texture Packs

    Plants texture pack 01

    Branches texture pack 01

    Tilling Texture Pack 20

    Grounds

    Tilling Textures Pack 22

    tree bark textures

    Tiling Textures Pack 46

    ShareCG: Grass and Plants

    Grass models

    Grass 01

    Grass 02

    Grass 03

    Fern v2.1 (double-sided)

    Bushes

    Free Hedges

    Tiny weeds 2

    Tiny weeds 3

    Tropical plant 02

    [Free] IDKWIAD 0

    Free Handpainted Plants

    Free houseplants

    Free Bamboo v1

    Freebies - Mundo commissions

    Palm tree v2

    Free palm treeZ v3

    Rocks

    ShareCG: Trees

    Fir Trees

    Leaf Trees

    Willow Trees

    Flower Trees

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  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384
    edited November 2018

    Excellent thread! BTW, if you are interested in adding another source of plants, XFrog also has a collection of free 3D samples available on their site, here:

    http://xfrog.com/category/samples.html

    You do need to register, but the plants come in a variety of formats, including wavefront .obj's.

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    I'm glad you like it. Shure why not, I will add some of the XFrog samples.

    I don't want to treat some site preferentially and its always good to have a wide variety choices. This thread is all about virtual bio diversity and against mono culture LOL.

    Since I have understand how to create anchor points in this forum for easy naviagation and have sort of categorized the links, it should be easy to find what you may search for without too much scrolling. I may continue to change the categories and anchorpoints slightly. You should know what formats the freebies have for example Blend Swap only provides *.blend files for Bender others sources provide .obj or .fbx and thats the prefered universal format we can import in our 3D apps. I'v avoided to post 'Autodesk' only freebie formats like .3ds and .max since those are not common to use for most of us and not easy convert.

    @ All

    Feel free to post suggestions what to include in the list, as long as it is a freebie and fits in the theme.

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  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited November 2018

    XFrog

    XFrog: Plants

    Oats

     

    Dandelion

    Cherry Tomato

    Sago Palm

    Cycadeoidea Gigantea

    Rainbow Cactus

    Poppy Anemone

    XFrog: Trees

    Curry Leaf Tree

    Horse Chestnut

    Ginkgo

    European Hackberry

    Chestnut

    Peach

    Japanese Walnut

    Blue-Gum Eucalyptus

    Saw Banksia

    Coastal Wattle

    Asterophyllites

    Giant Sea Fan

    Bloodtwig Dogwood

    Queen Palm

    Bishop Pine

    Red Maple

    Incense Cedar

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  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384
    edited December 2018

    This isn't really a complaint, but more of an observation. Afterall, one should never look a gift horse in the mouth, as they say. However, this is something that seems common to both free and for purchase tree models: they all seem to be based upon what I would call "open-grown" specimens. In other words, tree specimens as they might appear growing in a park or on someone's lawn. Such trees, free from neighboring competition, have a tendency to grow full crowns with branches relatively low to the ground. Forest trees, on the other hand, often assume a very different form owing to competition for light with the surrounding trees. As a consequence, they tend to have smaller crowns nearer to the top, with a long, largely branch-free bole. I understand why most models have the open-grown form - they are the ones in real life that are easiest to find and examine, and may be what most folks are accustomed to seeing. If you want to create a forest scene, many of the examples available are technically out of place unless you can "remove" lower branches and/or move them up closer to the top. Again, just an observation.

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