ngPlant

NgPlant is a software package for plant modeling that allows users to create 3D models of various plants and trees. Developers can also use NgPlant software libraries in their 3D applications or with plant modeling plugins. However, there are some requirements for using NgPlant, including wxWidgets (2.4.x, 2.6.x or 2.8.x), python, and scons.

To install NgPlant from source, users must follow a few steps. Firstly, they need to untar the source archive (ngplant-X.X.X.tar.gz). Secondly, they should navigate to the ngplant-X.X.X directory using the command “cd ngplant-X.X.X'. Finally, they need to run the command “scons”.

The latest version of NgPlant has several new features, bug fixes, and improvements. These include fixing a bug in fragment shader's code, implementing the "turntable" camera mode, allowing mouse sensitivity changes via the "Preferences" dialog, resetting curve in curve editor to default state, customizable curve editor size, switching between perspective and orthographic mode in 3d-view using 'NUMPAD-5', changing several numeric controls' sensitivity to more appropriate values, improving g-mesh import plugin, producing more optimal files in sense of size and material switch count, fixing a bug that broke pywrapper usage, implementing the ngpbench utility, and speeding up ngpcore.

Overall, NgPlant is a powerful software package with many useful features and applications, making it a valuable tool for plant modeling and 3D applications.