Realtime Landscaping Architect 2.04

Realtime Landscaping Architect 2.04 is considered as a professional and useful new landscape design software for creating professional plans and presentations. Give your plans a hand-drawn look using a wide variety of plant symbols and color washes. Freely switch between 2D and 3D views while designing your landscape.

This new landscaping software features soft shadows, accurate lighting, flowing water, and realtime walkthroughs. Design irrigation systems, planting details, and other CAD drawings with accurate size and scale. An extensive library of symbols is included, and you can create your own using the wizard. Import a digital photo of your client's house and design the landscape. A powerful picture editor is included so you can touch-up photos, edit imported pictures, and create custom plant varieties. The full version includes over 12,000 objects, including 5700 ultra-realistic plants and 1000 accessories.

Major Features:

1. Photo-Based Landscape Design
   • Import a photo and design the landscape. Ideal for creating before-and-after views of your property.
2. 3D Landscape Design
   • Design houses, decks, fencing, edging, lawns, gardens, and more. Walk through your designs in realtime 3D. Create movies and presentations of your landscaping ideas.
3. Water Features
   • Add sprinkler systems, fountains, waterfalls, custom swimming pools (above and below ground), spas, ponds, streams, and more. Includes PebbleTec custom pool finishes.
4. Landscape Plans and CAD drawings
   • Design professional landscape plans, installation instructions, and CAD drawings. Unique Plan view automatically creates the 3D view as you design.
5. Total Objects
   • Includes pictures, models, and symbols. The number of plants is shown in parenthesis: 12,800 (5700)
6. Create 3D landscape designs   
7. Design over a photo  
8. Maximum terrain size: 50 acres
9. Realistic lighting and shadows
10. Day and night visualization 
11. Accessories including gazebos, custom fencing, and much more 
12. Unlimited undo 
13. Plant growth tool 
14. Project estimates and material lists 
15. Integrated picture editor 
16. Edging and retaining walls 
17. House columns 
18. Poster-size printouts 
19. Layer support 
20. Advanced curve editing tools 
21. Import digital photos 
22. Import custom materials 
23. Import custom models (3ds and SketchUp) 
24. Create custom models using integrated modeling tools 
25. Fences 
26. Fence gates 
27. Freely edit in 2D or 3D 
28. Realtime walkthroughs 
29. Create custom plant varieties 
30. Raised flower beds 
31. Dimensions and lot boundaries 
32. Decks 
33. Custom fence styles 
34. 3D house design (exterior only) 
35. Create movies in AVI format 
36. Slopes and hills 
37. Advanced terrain sculpting 
38. Building pads and sloped driveways 
39. Hedge creation tool 
40. Landscape wizard 
41. Print to scale 
42. House, Deck, and Fence wizards 
43. Model creation wizard 
44. Curved deck stairs and railing
45. Shape boolean operations (add, subtract, intersection)
46. Sprinkler systems   
47. Swimming pools  
48. Custom spas  
49. Curved pool walls and decking  
50. Ponds and streams  
51. Fountains  
52. Waterfalls and spillways  
53. Create landscape plans and CAD drawings  
54. Hand-drawn plant symbols  
55. Color pencil, marker, and solid color washes  
56. Add company logo to printouts and movies  
57. CAD drawing tools  
58. Customizable appearance in Plan/3D views for most objects  
59. Title blocks  
60. Plant label wizard  
61. Symbol import and creation wizards  
62. Includes A0-A4 drawing templates  
63. Automatic plant mass blending  
64. Plan view drop shadows  
65. Plant keys and container sizes  
66. Adobe PDF support  
67. Add OLE objects to the Plan view such as Excel spreadsheets, AutoCAD
68. drawings, and Word documents.  
69. Automatic plant legend  
70. Solid, gradient, and picture area fills

Enhancements:

• Version 2.04 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Requirements:

• The following hardware and software is required:
• • 1 GHz CPU (1.8 GHz or faster recommended).
  • Windows XP or Vista.
  • 512 MB System RAM.
  • Video card with 128 MB Video RAM.
  • 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 FX or higher.
  • ATI Radeon 9250 or higher.