Realtime Landscaping Plus 2012 7.15

Realtime Landscaping Plus - For designing and experiencing the landscape

A premier tool for designing and experiencing the landscape of your dreams


Realtime Landscaping Plus is a software that designs and visualizes landscapes. Design and visualize your landscape in fast, photo-realistic 3D. Design houses, decks, gardens, patios, fencing, 3D plants, and more.


It's fun and easy to use - no CAD experience required.


You don't have to be an architect to use Realtime Landscaping Plus. In fact, the program was designed for people who are more interested in visualizing their landscape project than in the details of its construction. You can quickly and easily try out different ideas before digging a single hole or hiring a contractor.


A landscape is much more than a lawn with some plants it's the entire experience that counts. That's why Realtime Landscaping Plus provides such a large suite of tools for creating your landscape and surrounding objects. It can help you answer questions such as:


·How many and which types of plants will best compliment my landscape?

·What type of deck should I build?

·How can I best incorporate a fence based on the size, shape, and/or slope of my property?

·What will my landscape look like during different times of day?


Once you've created your landscape, you can walk through it in realtime 3D with realistic lighting, shadows, plants that sway in the wind, and even birds and butterflies.


Using Realtime Landscaping Plus, you can also create movies of your designs and use them as your screen saver. Then you can enjoy your landscape any time or day.


Utilizing the latest advances in 3D graphics technology, you can now experience your landscaping ideas with realistic lighting, shadows, wind, and other effects, all in real-time.


You have full control over your viewpoint. Whether you want to examine the petals of your favorite flower, or get a bird's eye view of your entire property, this is a great way to spot problems before you begin construction.


All editing can be done in either top-down or 3D perspective views, and you can switch back and forth at any time. The unlimited undo feature makes it easy to try new things.


Realtime Landscaping Plus features :


- Visualize your Landscaping Ideas

- Realtime Landscaping Plus represents a breakthrough in 3D graphics technology. Instead of taking minutes or even hours to render a single image, you can freely walk around your landscape designs in photo-realistic 3D with accurate lighting and shadows.

- Wizards Help You Get Started

- Using the wizards, you can design your first landscape ? including house, deck, and fence ? in less than one-half hour after installing the program.

- Import Digital Photographs

- Import a digital photograph of your house and design the surrounding landscape. Or, if you would rather create a fully 3D house, you can do that too using the large library of doors, windows, siding, and roofing that are included.

- Large Selection of Plants, Trees, and Shrubs

- Realtime Landscaping Plus comes with more than 400 highly detailed landscaping and garden plants. Trees, shrubs, flowers, cactus, palms, and more are included. Plant information includes common name, botanical name, planting zones, and size. The plants are lifelike 3D models that look realistic from any viewing distance or angle.

- Landscape With Slopes & Hills

- Create building pads, driveways, and sloping terrain. Adjust the height of the terrain at any point using exact dimensions. The software also supports both straight and curve retaining walls. All of the tools work in real-time, so you get instant feedback on your changes. More features.

- Professional Presentation Tools

- Use the Realtime Walkthrough and movie creation features to present your landscape designs to others. Homeowners hiring a contractor can render realistic models of their design concepts, with accurate dimensions, scale, and placement relative to existing property and landscaping.

- Professional landscape designers can create highly realistic, real-time 3D presentations of their proposals. Create a movie and show your clients a virtual walkthrough of their property with your proposed design changes. Use your laptop PC to make design changes right at the jobsite.

- Using the Project Material List feature, you can create a bill of materials, set item descriptions and prices, and export results to Microsoft Excel.


Requirements:


- Pentium III (or equivalent)

- 800 Mhz CPU

- DirectX 9.0c (automatically installed if needed)

- 256 MB System RAM

- Video card with 32 MB Video RAM and 16-bit or 32-bit color support

- Mouse or other pointing device

- A DirectX 9-compatible video card is required for 3D hardware acceleration. · The following chipsets are recommended:

- NVidia GeForce 5200 MX/FX or higher

- ATI Radeon 9200 or higher·


Limitations:


- Has only a small number of objects

Realtime Landscaping Plus 2012 7.15 is licensed as Trial for the Windows operating system / platform. Realtime Landscaping Plus is provided as a free to try download for all software users (Trial).