Friday, 5 December 2025

Trees - Asset Catalog

 Yesterday, I struggled to find the specific tree types I needed for the biome I'm designing. There's little point in having a vast library of assets if you don't know what you have or where to look for it. So here's the first instalment of a pictorial asset catalogue.

Trees

Bagapie Assets

The first asset library that I purchased. Oh how this became a crutch. It's still a fab collection because it's got such a wide range of trees and other assets.




Botaniq (Summer variants)

Use Engon, as it provides the best plant classification across all the competing asset browsers. It's still a big shame that Blender has all these competing asset browser solutions instead of having one absolutely kick-ass built-in browser.












Plantica




Shaker Trees


This one is a monster. I only bought it because it was half price and was the biggest tree set on the market as far as I knew.














True-Vault


Annoyed as I am about the proliferation of asset browsers, True-VFX absolutely nail it in terms of making it an online library that you download only the assets that you need for your scene. It needs better classification/search functions, and it definitely needs to stop asking me to sign in.








Arborea: A recent purchase that I've not had time to really investigate. Assets are very good. Characterful in a way that the more straight-laced libraries are not.







Forestation

Another well-formed library specifically for trees







AND THAT'S JUST TREES!! More Catalog posts coming soonish.

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