Buy
You’ll get a lifetime license to use The Grove Core 2.1, the unique tree simulation that will grow you the most natural trees ever seen in computer graphics. It comes in three editions, each with its own license and features.
You’ll get access to The Grove in Blender, the rock solid Blender add-on, with awesome tools for interactive growth and a polished user experience. Plus, the Studio license adds The Grove in Houdini beta – a completely new way to grow trees – with the power of Houdini to build upon the simulation.
Starter
You are an independent user, a freelance artist. Gets you the full natural tree simulation, and 2 free updates.
- Includes 3 popular twigs 1
- Free updates to 2.3
- Made for creators, not sellers 2
- Works in Blender 4.3
- Windows, macOS and Linux 3
Indie
You are an independent user, a freelance artist, or a single user at a small company. Gets you the fully featured simulation, plus advanced tools and attributes, and 2 free updates.
- Includes 8 popular twigs 1
- Free updates to 2.3
- Made for creators, not sellers 2
- Works in Blender 4.3
- Windows, macOS and Linux 3
- Advanced tools and attributes
- Animate wind and growth
- React, bend and draw
Studio
You and everyone within your physical studio location can grow and use the trees. You get to grow awesome trees with the fully featured software, advanced tools and attributes, and 2 free updates.
- Includes 8 popular twigs 1
- Free updates to 2.3
- Made for creators, not sellers 2
- Works in Blender 4.3
- Windows, macOS and Linux 3
- Advanced tools and attributes
- Animate wind and growth
- React, bend and draw
- Works in Houdini 19 and 20 (beta) 4
- Physics skeleton (Houdini)
- No fuss, site-wide install
- Add to cart to see the current selection of bundled twigs.
- The Grove is developed for artists. Do not sell or distribute 3D models of trees grown with The Grove. Because come on, that would be too easy.
- The Grove works on the latest macOS, Windows and Linux systems – on Blender 4.3 (down to 3.6 LTS) – with Python 3.7 or higher. For studios, the Linux version is compiled on CentOS 7 with glibc 2.17, for maximum compatibility.
- The Grove in Houdini is a work-in-progress beta. The add-on works in the Houdini way, with all the benefits that come with the nodal workflow, but it does not yet have the polished toolset that the Blender add-on has built up over the years – especially the interactive prune, draw and bend tools. When you need these tools for a specific tree, you can grow the tree in Blender, and transfer the simulation seamlessly to Houdini. Your input is greatly appreciated for the next iterations of the add-on.
Bark textures included
The Grove includes a collection of seamless bark textures to finish your branching structure in a very realistic way. As with The Grove’s twig textures, these bark textures were captured with accurate color and reflectivity in mind. Correct white balance and exposure relative to surfaces of known reflectance make for quality assets that can be used without tweaking. Using quality HDRI lighting together with The Grove provides instant realism.
