AIGardenPlanner vs Terragen

AIGardenPlanner uses AI to preview garden and planting designs from a photo of a real yard. Users upload a photo, choose from more than 50 styles and generate designs in about 60 seconds. Its free browser-based 3D editor has more than 400 models, synchronized 2D and 3D views, terrain sculpting and first-person walkthroughs. The AI Plant Advisor builds plant lists using location, climate zone, soil type, local conditions and gardening goals, with care instructions. Plant Detector identifies plants from photos and provides profiles and health assessments for pests and diseases. The free 3D Designer plan allows one project. Paid yearly plans include Starter for personal use, while Professional and Business include commercial licenses; plan prices are listed as $9/mo, $21/year and $42/year respectively, with annual payments of $99, $249 and $499. Video animations use 10 credits, Quick Tours 5 and Full Detail tours 30. Subscribers may cancel and retain access through their current paid period.

Terragen builds, renders, and animates natural environments for landscape visualization, visual effects, and artistic work. It creates procedural and heightfield terrain, can use real-world terrain data, and adds details such as cliffs and overhangs. Its spherical planetary atmosphere model includes volumetric clouds and fog, multiple scattering, and global illumination. The hybrid renderer combines micropolygon rendering and ray tracing, with support for anti-aliasing, motion blur, depth of field, and render elements. Nearly every project parameter can be animated, and image sequences can be rendered through the interface or command line. Terragen imports 3D objects and camera data, exports terrain as heightfields or geometry in formats including TER, EXR, LWO, OBJ, and FBX, and handles camera data in FBX, Nuke CHAN, and Maya MOV formats. It can also generate HDR environments for lighting in other renderers. Windows and macOS are supported, with Linux render-node support. The free edition is for non-commercial use or 30 days of commercial evaluation, with still renders limited to 1280 × 900. Professional subscriptions start at $10 a month.