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Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd EAN: 5031366003225 Label: Focus Multimedia Ltd Manufacturer: Focus Multimedia Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98 Publisher: Focus Multimedia Ltd Release Date: September 27, 2000 Studio: Focus Multimedia Ltd
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Amazon.co.uk Review: There is no need to spend a fortune on a professional garden designer when you can create your own dream garden on your computer with 3D landscape 2 Deluxe. By simply clicking your mouse button you can place trees, shrubs, water features and more than 100 features such as brick pathways and wooden fences. This advanced garden design program provides you with realistic 3-D views and you can even see your garden change through the seasons.
The program is packed with design tips. If you're looking to create a garden, you might want a small city one; a formal landscape or a garden for thoughts, which is deliberately intended as a tranquil retreat. Once you've selected your plants and trees, you can test how big they will get. By pressing the play button, everything you have planted starts to grow on your screen and you can easily see what size it will become over a number of years.
There are handy professional tips as well. If you are looking to choose specific grass for your lawn, you are advised to take into account climate, growth speeds, watering, foot traffic and maintenance.
Overall this is a detailed program and it gives you enormous choice including more than 2,200 plants to choose from and you can even use innovative tools like the shadow caster to help you plan where shadows fall.
Whether you are a professional designer or a gardening enthusiast, this program will let you design the garden you want without you even having to pick up a spade. --Justin Hunt
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Prehistoric...
I've just installed this software and then loaded one of the sample designs shipped on the cd - I couldn't believe how bad the 3D graphics are!This program is something that might have been considered ok back in the mid 90's, but not for this century. I've just been looking at some of the file dates on the cd - most are 1996 vintage, which doesn't surprise me in the least....
Rating: - Ok, I paid peanuts but....
I have a good video card but it tells me it cant work at it's best as I dont have 256 colours!!
The next big thing is the UNDO function - there aint one. It's vital and it means you have to delete the object and add it- a pain if it's a complex shape.
The 3d is so-o-o-o clunky.
Greenhouses and sheds are not all one size!
And this is after half an hour's use. P>. This product is immature, I feel and needs more work to bring it up to a basic standard.
Rating: - The good the bad and the downright ugly
So what planet exactly was Messers Which Online on when they reviewed this product? This is a poor reveamp of an old product 3D Landascape Professional. THE BAD The description describes a DVD box(2gb of data) and further down CDRom (700mb of data) and you get a CDRom.
The graphics ability of the product is still way back with Win95 (it complained about the inability to run at 256 colours and a desktop of 800x600 when my graphics settings are 1600X1200 and 32million colours. ... Read More
Rating: - Very poor
I should have heeded the words of the other reviewers. This program is really very poor. Being used to using graphics packages such as CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator, I found the drawing side of the designing very frustrating. As previously mentioned, rounded shapes can't be drawn automatically. The ability to snap to existing shapes would be helpful. The range of plants is small and tailored to the US market. The 3D view was very disappointing and it seemed unable to cope with the small dimensions ... Read More
Rating: - Cheap but not so cheerful
As has been said elsewhere, this program does represent good value for money, and a satisfactory but basic visual interpretation of your garden design. However, the down-sides may well have you screaming at the program rather than singing its praises.
Currently, the most frustrating problems can be summerised as: 1) curved edges are not automatically available - instead straight lines are stretched onto an elipse template (and not very well in the 3-D mode where you are designing a brick ... Read More
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