Plant Stem

Plant Stem is a modular tool that lets the user design different stems and stalks for plants.

The tool was created with the intend to easily let me transform any curve into a plant. While at the same time letting me quickly try out different versions and growth patterns.

One of the core criteria for the tool is that it is easy to create different templates, that I can not only move from one project to another, but also combine with each other.

Stems are designed by combining different growth settings. The user can stack these, and design different patterns that can interact with eachother.

Once the stack is ready, it can be piped into the processing node that creates the plant

The user can pipe in any geometry to be used as a flower head or leaf. If the flowerhead is animated, it will use that animation for the blossom.

Alternatively, the flowers can be set up as instance, which allows the user to create complex geometry without too much of a strain on system resources

Growth settings come with an extensive set of parameters that can be used to design every part of the plants, as well as the growth animation.

The entire plant growth is linked to one universal growth value that can be keyframed