For landscape designers and visualizers, the right tools can make all the difference. Let’s take a closer look at how a powerful real-time rendering software can bring your landscape projects to life.

"As landscape designers/architects, we arrange the natural features in/between infrastures and communities, thus adding more liveability and functionalities to the space, and addressing a variety of problems for the people living in this area.

Thus, when modeling our designs, we often integrate real-time rendering to experiment with different plant species, materials, and lighting conditions," said D.R. LANDSCAPE.

The real-time raytracing technology powering D5 Render can accurately present landscape projects in a realistic and immersive way.

Since D5 Render works with SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, 3ds Max, Archicad, Cinema 4D, and Blender, designers can make informed decisions about the placement of elements in their designs.

The same set of vegetation assets won't work for projects located in different regions or even countries, and you also need to figure out what is specifically needed there.

Luckily, D5 offers more than you could possibly ask for: 3800+ models of shrubs, broadleaf, palm trees, herb, vine, crops, grass, stones, fallen leaves. It also has a dedicated category of landscape assets including landscape ornament lamps and various exterior furniture for you to fill the outdoor space.

What's impressing is that D5 also gets procedurally-generated vines for automatic lush and dense vine creation. D5 offers 6 vine models in the library that can automatically grow along a wall. Select the type you need and place it vertically against a model surface. Hit 'generate' and a lifelike climbing vine effect will appear. You can further customize how it looks with a set of parameters and a 'Random' option for re-generation.

D5 Render not only has a library of over 3,800 vegetation assets, but it also provides handy tools for us to speed up our workflow: brush, path, and D5 Scatter, a PCG-driven scatter tool. With these tools, you can easily achieve complex and organic landscape designs.

For natural landscapes, you can use D5 Scatter to distribute plants from the D5 Asset Library across the surface of materials/models and adjust their density, proportion, scale, and orientation for various effects.
For structured landscapes, you can divide a surface into multiple sub-areas. Each supports scattering different models and enables independent customization.

"For me, realistic plants take a long time to achieve in Lumion, and the rendered image could differ from that of preview. However, in D5, the realism is out-of-the-box. As soon as you place a tree model into the scene, you'll have a good-looking tree that doesn't need further adjustment. In the rendered images, there won't be much difference," said TENGTOU LANDSCAPE.

Compared to other rendering engines, the GPU-accelerated raytracing rendering solution provided by D5 Render ensures that landscape designers and visualizers could see the final outputs within a very short time.