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Realtime Landscaping Architect

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Realtime Landscaping Architect

Design professional landscape plans and presentations.
Create photo-based designs, plan drawings, and even full
3D walkthroughs, all for only $599

 

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2023 Now Available. See What's New

What’s New for 2023

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Next Generation Graphics

The graphics engine has been rewritten from the ground up, now featuring physically based rendering (PBR) for more realistic lighting and materials.
Flowing water, shadows, lighting, 3D grass, and more are now available in the 3D view while designing, and Realtime Walkthroughs now start instantly.
Brand new graphical features include depth of field, realistic fog, vignette shading, adjustable exposure controls, improved fire effects, sunlight shafts, ray-traced global illumination, and dynamic environment mapping for realistic reflections.
Instantly switch between 3D and Plan views while designing. The views are linked; changes you make in one are instantly applied to the other.

Realtime Landscaping Architect
Backyard Patio Design
Design Landscape Plans
Raytraced Global Illumination

Next Generation Graphics

The graphics engine has been rewritten from the ground up, now featuring physically based rendering (PBR) for more realistic lighting and materials.
Flowing water, shadows, lighting, 3D grass, and more are now available in the 3D view while designing, and Realtime Walkthroughs now start instantly.
Brand new graphical features include depth of field, realistic fog, vignette shading, adjustable exposure controls, improved fire effects, sunlight shafts, ray-traced global illumination, and dynamic environment mapping for realistic reflections.
Instantly switch between 3D and Plan views while designing. The views are linked; changes you make in one are instantly applied to the other.

Realtime Landscaping Architect
Backyard Patio Design
Raytraced Global Illumination
Design Landscape Plans

New UltraRes PlantĀ® Models

Over 450 new trees, shrubs, grasses, annuals, perennials, and tropical plants have been added. This expanded plant library grows realistically and changes season to accurately visualize your landscape design over the years.

Landscaping Plants
Professional Landscape Design Software
Landscape Design Plants
Backyard Landscape Design

New 3D People and Animals

Add realism to your design with high quality people and animals. Choose from 24 different people, each with casual attire and a swimsuit option, or from 23 different animals.

All new animations are available for every model, including swimming animations for every new person.

New People and Animals
Depth of Field
New Vehicles and People
Patio Stairs Design
Custom Spa Design

New 3D People and Animals

Add realism to your design with high quality people and animals. Choose from 24 different people, each with casual attire and a swimsuit option, or from 23 different animals.

All new animations are available for every model, including swimming animations for every new person.

Depth of Field
New People and Animals

Holiday Lighting and Snow Effects

Add holiday and party lighting to your landscape design. A variety of bulb shapes and sizes are included, such as LED, c7, c9, icicle, and meteor shower. Lights can be configured to turn on automatically at night, and to animate for movies and Realtime Walkthroughs.
Create a winter version of your landscape design with just a few clicks. Options include snow density, falling snowflakes, and more.

Animated Holiday Lighting
Winter Landscape Design

Enhanced 3D Houses

Houses, sheds, and other structures are now more realistic and easier to create with new roof types and customization options. New roof options include half hip, gambrel, mansard, Dutch hip, and combination.

Automatic roof ridges and gutters are now available. A single click adds ridges or gutters to your house where appropriate.

Roofing and siding are more realistic, and the selection of styles and colors has been greatly expanded.

Home Design Software

Enhanced 3D Houses

Houses, sheds, and other structures are now more realistic and easier to create with new roof types and customization options. New roof options include half hip, gambrel, mansard, Dutch hip, and combination.

Automatic roof ridges and gutters are now available. A single click adds ridges or gutters to your house where appropriate.

Roofing and siding are more realistic, and the selection of styles and colors has been greatly expanded.

Home Design Software
Visualize Your Landscape Designs

Improved Lights

Lights are now more realistic than ever and include a wide variety of new customization options.

Animate any light in your design, set the color temperature, and synchronize lighting effects with other lights.

The new IES lighting profiles define how light spreads in each direction, making it easier to achieve the desired lighting effects.

All Landscape Lights and House Lights have been remade for improved appearance and realism.

Improved Lights

Lights are now more realistic than ever and include a wide variety of new customization options.

Animate any light in your design, set the color temperature, and synchronize lighting effects with other lights.

The new IES lighting profiles define how light spreads in each direction, making it easier to achieve the desired lighting effects.

All Landscape Lights and House Lights have been remade for improved appearance and realism.

Visualize Your Landscape Designs

New 3D Vehicles

A wide selection of highly detailed new vehicles is available to bring more life to your landscape designs. These vehicles are a great complement to Realtime Landscaping Architect’s realistic road system.

New 3D Vehicles

Glass Reflections and Simulated House Interiors

Windows and glass doors now support true reflections, significantly improving the realism of your designs and presentations.
Add a simulated interior to your home designs with just a few clicks. These interiors, called Facades, are a fast and easy way to add bathrooms, hallways, living rooms, dining rooms, and even kitchens that are visible through the glass of your doors and windows. Even though they appear 3D, they are actually created using special rendering technology that does not require any geometry inside the house.

Realistic Windows and Doors
Advanced Landscape Design Features

Create 3D Panoramas for Youtube and Facebook

Upload interactive designs to social media and image sharing sites. Your clients can look around the design freely, either standing in place or while moving through the landscape in a video. Capture even more detail with an increased resolution output limit of 8192×8192.

Water Curtains and Strip Lights

Use the new Water Curtain object to create flowing sheets of water anywhere you wish. Water can be emitted as rain from individual jets, or continuously as a solid sheet. Add strip lights to your pools, spas, under countertops, or anywhere else in your landscape. Water curtains and strip lighting both support animated lighting effects.

New Swimming Pool Design Features
Advanced Landscape Lighting Design

Bubbler, Gusher, and Steam effects

Bring even more realism and variety to your pond, fountain, swimming pool, and spa designs with new animated effects for gushing water and steam.

New Spa Design Features

New Animation Tool

Quickly apply animations to nearly any object. Simulate movement along an adjustable path along with rotation in any direction. Enhance your landscape designs and presentations with rotating ceiling fans, moving cars, and more.

Enhance Your Landscape Designs With Animations
2023 System Requirements

New System Requirements

Windows 10 or 11 is now required to run Realtime Landscaping Architect, along with a DirectX 11 compatible video card with access to at least 2 GB of video memory.
Please note that Realtime Landscaping Architect 2023 can only import designs created in version 2016 or later. Our support department is happy to help you import designs created in version 2014 or earlier.

New System Requirements

Windows 10 or 11 is now required to run Realtime Landscaping Architect, along with a DirectX 11 compatible video card with access to at least 2 GB of video memory.
Please note that Realtime Landscaping Architect 2023 can only import designs created in version 2016 or later. Our support department is happy to help you import designs created in version 2014 or earlier.

2023 System Requirements

Enhanced User Interface

The entire UI has been restyled to be clearer, more intuitive, and even more professional than ever before. Icons have been remade in higher quality, and will now automatically scale to large resolution monitors without any loss of fidelity. A new movement helper makes it even easier to adjust an object’s position. Access environment and graphics settings right from the Perspective view. A new dark theme is available for those that prefer it.

Other Features and Improvements

  • The new Custom Material Editor makes it easier to fine-tune the appearance of your objects.
  • Pools can now have interior regions, simplifying islands and other advanced designs. Infinity edges now support tiers.
  • Spas can now automatically use the tile and finish of pools they are connected to.
  • New Snap options include extension, tangent, and geometric center. Snap Settings can now be accessed via a hotkey.
  • Create larger designs. The maximum design size has increased to 3000 x 3000 feet (914 x 914 meters), for a total area of over 200 acres.
  • Import 3D models in additional formats. Autodesk FBX, Collada DAE, Wavefront OBJ files, 3DS, and SketchUp SKP files are now supported.
  • New options have been added for controlling plant mass blending.
  • The new Move tool makes it easy to move objects along an axis.
  • House gable walls can now use a custom material.
  • When placing plants, they can now be randomly rotated if desired.
  • Plant symbols and other artwork has been remastered at a higher resolution.
  • All fountains, waterfalls, and jumping jets now support adjustable lighting animations.
  • Multithreading is used in many areas to improve performance.
  • Custom models can now be up to 1 million triangles.
  • Increased 3D grass density and maximum render distance.
  • Most objects now support an Absolute Elevation option for specifying their elevation regardless of the underlying surfaces.
  • Text now includes options for mixing font, style, and color of text in a single paragraph.
  • Videos are now produced in industry standard MP4 format. H.264 and H.265 are supported. (H.265 requires a codec which is available separately from Microsoft).
  • The Realtime Camera now includes options that make it much easier to set viewpoints.
  • Plant Rows and Plant Fills can now be elevated as needed, making it easier to create raised gardens.
  • Fire, candle, water, and smoke effects have been improved.
  • The Perspective Nav Wheel can now be placed in different positions around the screen.
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