Visual Nature Studio
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Visual Nature Studio, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Visual Nature Studio's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Nature Studio 3 | $2,475, paid once | Windows · requires a 2 GHz or faster SSE2 processor, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB free disk space, accelerated OpenGL display, and USB port for hardware key |
The facts
Each one read from Visual Nature Studio's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Add-on exports
- The optional Scene Express 2 add-on exports scenes in formats including KML, OpenFlight, and VRML for use in other programs and viewers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Data support
- The product supports terrain, 3D object, vector, point, image, image sequence, and GIS data formats.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Forestry add-on
- The optional Forestry Edition is designed to speed creation and population of forestry visualization projects.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker identifies foresters, engineers, landscape architects, GIS professionals, historians, and graphic artists among VNS users.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Visual Nature Studio creates photorealistic images and animations from GIS and geospatial data for terrain and landscape visualization.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Rendering
- VNS 3 supports rendering still images and animations, and its Scenarios feature applies changes without recreating the entire scene.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scene features
- Users can add draped imagery, foliage, 3D objects, lakes, streams, roads, highways, celestial objects, and stars to scenes.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security and licensing
- The maker says VNS uses a USB hardware key and releases its source code under the OpenSceneGraph Public License, a modified GNU LGPL, while continuing to sell commercial licenses.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- Registered users receive specific technical support, while the product includes manuals, video tutorials, and an online searchable reference manual.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Terrain editing
- Landform modifying capabilities can show cut and fill areas and terrain with changed contours.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- The maker’s history page says development of the underlying landscape visualization tools began in 1992.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Evergreen, Colorado, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker
- AlphaPixel LLC sells and supports Visual Nature Studio from Evergreen, Colorado, USA.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free demo limits
- The Windows demo is free to download, but cannot save work, adds a rainbow bar to preview renderings, disables some features, and is not for finished work.checked 8 Oct 2026
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