$14.99FlowScape
FlowScape lets you paint a small 3D landscape into being: brush trees, houses, animals and weather onto open ground, move the sun and sky, then frame the shot. It is slow, gentle work with pretty results, ideal for an evening of making one nice picture.
Is FlowScape worth it?
FlowScape is worth it if…
- you like slow, creative sandbox time with no goals or pressure
- you want fantasy landscapes, forts, and nature scenes for fun or reference
- you make tabletop maps and want top-down grids to export
- you enjoy framing screenshots and tinkering with light and sky
Screenshots
Painting a little world
You start with a patch of ground and a brush. You paint trees across a hill, drop rocks and logs that tumble in with real-time physics, raise the land, change the texture, then swap the sky and turn the sun until the light sits right.
The toolbar gives you control over brush size and flow, random lean, grow speed, and whether things align to the land. With hundreds of models, 4k ground textures, different skies, weather, and ten sound ambiances of birds, insects, water and weather, a bare plot turns into a valley, a fort, or a dragon-haunted wood. Save it as a still up to 8k or a panorama.
Pictures, maps and stories
FlowScape is a tool for images as much as scenes. You adjust the camera with plenty of sliders, add snow to the ground and trees, fireflies, rain, falling leaves or swimming fish, then run an automatic camera move and capture video with your own app.
If you play tabletop games, there is a top-down view with square and hexagonal grids and image export for battle maps. You can also bring in your own models in obj format from a modelling program. It is easy to learn, with a short tutorial and simple click-and-paint controls, and making something good takes an unhurried evening rather than quick clicks.
Good to know?
Can you use what you make in other projects?
Yes, in a practical way. You save screenshots up to 8k, make panoramas, or record video with a capture app, and many people use those images as art reference, covers, event visuals, or story illustrations. There is no model export to another 3D program, so the picture or video is the finished thing.
Does it help with D&D battle maps?
Yes. Switch to the top-down view, turn on the square or hexagonal grid, build your clearing, ruin or river crossing from trees, rocks, houses and critters, then export the image from 2K to 8K for print or a virtual table.
Can you add your own models?
Yes, through obj files made in a modelling program. Keep the obj, its material file and textures together in one folder with simple file names, and stick to common image formats for textures. Importing is a little fiddly and worth learning from a community video first.
How much control do you get over the look?
A lot for a painting tool. You pick ground textures and skies, raise and lower terrain, set tree size and lean, weather and snow cover, sun position, camera sliders, and ten sound ambiances to set the mood while you work.
