Shaping

Controlling the form: mapping, effectors, the environment a tree responds to, and the interactive tools for reaching in by hand.

Unlock new ways to shape plants

Tweak and pose individual branches in real time, redirecting live simulations without starting over in this Houdini foliage tool.

Getting started Natsura 101

Branch simulation and interactive posing in the Natsura Houdini foliage tool

Pose branches

Perfect the final result by posing branches in your Houdini tree generator and see meshing update in an instant.

Shaping

Artist posing branches and updating tree mesh in real time

Guide natural processes

Place volumes, curves, and guides to attract, repel, limit, or steer growth. Set forbidden zones and targets explicitly for procedural trees and plants.

Effectors and guides steering procedural plant and tree growth

Use Effectors

Affect growth using parameters, objects, and expressions in your foliage simulations.

Effectors

Map Parameters

Every parameter can be promoted and controlled via mapping graphs for fine-grained foliage control.

Mapping

Docs: Shaping in depth

The features above are the highlights. The docs walk through the whole workflow, concept by concept.

Core concepts: Shaping

Simulation

The growth simulation: the graph and its core verbs, how a plant is grown, and the endless variation one recipe produces.

Trunks & Meshing

Turning the grown skeleton into geometry: decorations as the contact point, trunks and bark, scans and high-poly, and how it is meshed.

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