LANDSCAPE DESIGN CONFIGURATOR

More and more people are deciding to create a harmonious design for their personal plot. It should be comfortable to be at the dacha and in a country house, and this applies to both the house itself and the site. But many are not ready to use the services of designers, preferring to plan everything on their own, and order only the implementation of the project for professionals.

If you provide services in the field of landscape construction, namely, the organization of green spaces, the construction of garden and park architectural forms (gazebos, terraces, alcoves), the creation of the infrastructure of a garden and a personal plot, you will probably be interested in placing a powerful attractor for potential customers on the site. We are talking about the infield configurator – a web application with which the client can create a three-dimensional layout of the entire adjacent territory and immediately send it to you for calculation and implementation.

Although today it is not difficult to find a ready-made project for landscape design – it is possible that many options are presented even on your website – every owner of a summer house or country house would like to do everything according to his own wishes. For this, the 3D landscape design configurator is used. You can give users the ability to edit pre-made designs or create completely new layouts from scratch.

It is important that a web application that allows you to design a landscape design runs in a browser and does not require downloading any plugins and programs to work. Any user of a personal computer or smartphone will be able to deal with the work of the configurator – all controls are intuitive and simple. At the same time, the configurator is a full-fledged program for creating landscape design of a fairly high complexity. All models that the user can add to their layout are drawn at a high level of detail and offer an excellent view of the future site.

In the configurator, the user can specify a site plan – by default, a rectangular plan is loaded, but the boundaries can be moved to define an irregularly shaped site. Also, when creating a landscape design configurator, we took into account that areas can be uneven. You can also set the elevation difference using simple controls. Then the user marks on the site where the capital structures will be located: a house, a garage, and so on, marks a fence. Then you can directly start creating the layout.

The configurator implements a convenient coordinate grid, which the user can navigate by placing certain elements on the site. There can be a huge number of such elements, all of them are presented in the configurator catalog and arranged in groups:

• green spaces – bushes, trees, grass, flowers of various types;
• garden buildings – gazebos, terraces, arbours;

• braziers, barbecues, hearths and other places for making a fire;
• pools, ponds, waterfalls and everything related to water;
• playgrounds with all elements;
• lighting devices of all kinds;
• garden decor – rock gardens, sculptures, vases and more.

The choice of models is not limited – you can order a configurator with almost any elements that you offer to your customers. All models are drawn and added to the catalog, from where the user can add them to the configurator with one click.

Thus, your customer will be able to arrange all the elements of landscape design that are of interest to him, and then see in close-up and from different angles how his future site will look like. The three-dimensional model can be rotated in all directions, zoom in and out. Detailed textures add realism to the layout.

The configurator is implemented in JavaScript, the scripts of which work directly in the browser. To speed up the development of projects related to three-dimensional graphics, we use special libraries – Three.js and Babylon.js. They also improve performance and extend the functionality of the configurator. For direct rendering of 3D graphics in a browser, WebGL technology is used, which works in any modern browser.

We draw 3D models in blend4web and 3DS Max programs. The capabilities of these programs allow you to create naturalistic textures and lighting. The Unity game engine is used to create improved animations. As a result, you get a multifunctional landscape design configurator that will become an excellent marketing tool for attracting and retaining potential customers.