What's New in GroundWiz 1.920?

Version 1.920 (June 18, 2014)
GroundWiz is now compatible with 3ds Max 2015 & 3ds Max Design 2015.

Version 1.900 (September 11, 2013)
GroundWiz now compatible with 3ds Max 2014 & 3ds Max Design 2014.


Version 1.850 (July 30, 2012)
GroundWiz now compatible with 3ds Max 2013 & 3ds Max Design 2013.


Version 1.800 (June 1, 2011)
GroundWiz now compatible with 3ds Max 2012 & 3ds Max Design 2012. GroundWiz currently supports the following 3ds Max versions: 3ds Max 2012, 3ds Max 2011, 3ds Max 2010, 3ds Max 2009, and 3ds Max 2008.


Version 1.700 (June 2, 2010)
GroundWiz now compatible with 3ds Max 2011 & 3ds Max Design 2011. GroundWiz currently supports the following 3ds Max versions: 3ds Max 2011, 3ds Max 2010, 3ds Max 2009, 3ds Max 2008, 3ds Max 9, 3ds Max 8 and VIZ 2008, VIZ 2007.


Version 1.600 (June 1, 2009)
GroundWiz now compatible with 3ds Max 2010 & 3ds Max Design 2010.
- Bug fixes:

Version 1.500 (June 25, 2008)
- GroundWiz now compatible with 3ds Max 2009 & 3ds Max Design 2009.
- New feature: - GroundWiz Planter now supports ArchVision RPC objects.
- 3ds Max 2009 mr Proxy objects fully supported when rendering with mental ray.
- Based on users' feedback, numerous improvements were made on Planter's editing tools to make working with hundreds of thousands of planted instances easier: - Bug fixes:

Version 1.290 (Nov. 15, 2007)
3ds Max 2008 fully supported:

Version 1.280 (Aug. 22, 2007)
Maintenance release - the following issues were resolved:

Version 1.270 (May 31, 2007)
Vista 32 bit and 64 bit are fully supported. GroundWiz now compatible with VIZ 2008.

Version 1.252 (Dec. 14, 2006)
This is a maintenance release. The following issues were resolved:

Version 1.251 (Nov. 13, 2006)
GroundWiz v1.250 installation program (Lite & Full version) had a bug that in some cases showed the following message when installing :
"Windows Installer
Another version of this product is already installed.
Installation of this version cannot continue. To
configure or remove the existing version of this product,
use Add/Remove Programs on the control Panel".

This happened if user already had (older) version of 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable' installed. In that case GroundWiz would not get properly installed and 3ds Max / VIZ would report an error and fail to load GroundWiz plugin.



Version 1.250 (Nov. 7, 2006)
GroundWiz now fully supports 3ds Max 9 (32 and 64 bit versions). 3ds Max 5 is not supported any more, GroundWiz is currently compatible with 3ds Max 6, 7, 8, 9 / VIZ 2005, 2006, 2007.

GroundWiz Planter:

GroundWiz Terrain Map:
Users that plan to use GroundWiz with 32bit and 64bit versions of 3ds Max 9 can expect GroundWiz results to match in both versions. If they don't, consider it to be a bug that we will promptly remove (when reported).



Version 1.203 (Sept. 14, 2006)

GroundWiz Planter
GroundWiz Procedural Terrain Map

Version 1.200 (May 24, 2006)
Since version 1.100, GroundWiz essentially consists of 2 plugin tools: GroundWiz Planter & GroundWiz Procedural Terrain Map. Version 1.100 was not released to the general public due to numerous bugs that caused stability and compatibility problems with different versions of 3ds Max and VIZ.
The following are improvements since version 1.002.

GroundWiz Planter
As mentioned above, GroundWiz now has a new tool that should be helpful when planting millions of objects to create full nature scenes with vegetation. It includes geometry shader for mental ray that will allow you to render hundreds of millions of triangles. GroundWiz Planter has many features to explore: please refer to the GroundWiz Planter chapter.

GroundWiz Procedural Terrain Map
Numerous new features should make working with GroundWiz Terrain Map easier and more useful:
Documentation and Files

Version 1.002 (Nov. 22, 2005)

Version 1.001 (Oct. 26, 2005): first public release