By far the most important plugin in the production of this scene, and in fact all of our scenes which involve any kind of rural setting, is Forest Pack Pro by iToo Software. Most 3ds Max users will be familiar with this plugin or at least have heard of it as it has now become pretty much industry standard for scattering geometry in our kind of workflow at least. In this example there are four distinct Forest objects controlling the distribution of grass, clover, daisies and gravel.

There are of course many excellent plant models available to purchase from various companies online including 3D Mentor and R&D Group to name but a few but as this scene is ultimately intended for distribution we chose to mainly utilise models which we have developed in-house over the years.