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- Media: CD-ROM
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Work on your yard on the rainiest of days, or plant a garden you never have to weed. Create a 3-D rendering of your dream garden, scan a photograph of your home and lay out flowers and trees around it, or just research the best plants and gardening techniques for your geographical area. Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 makes all of this and more possible.
The Total 3D Landscape process is relatively simple. First, lay out a plot of land including a home floor plan, lot shape, lawns, garage, and gardens; hills, depressions, streams, and ponds go into the mix as well. Then it's time to add plant life: browse a catalog of more than 4,000 cultivable plants to find your favorites, or use the detailed search engine to match what you've got in mind. If you want to find flowers of a particular color for a specific soil type, and then define the types of insects these flowers will attract, this program can help.
Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 favors detail-oriented users, gardeners who want to nail down every possible element of their landscape plan before going outside and getting to work. The program's interface is somewhat unfriendly and doesn't offer many shortcuts for repetitive tasks. What it does provide, though, is plenty of gardening information--on seasonal planting, irrigation, garden design, climate, plant types, and everything else a home landscaper can imagine. The program will even calculate a budget that estimates the cost of the garden you're planning, one that's flexible enough to include such elements as the cost of labor if you aren't planning to do all the heavy lifting yourself.
As if that weren't enough, Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 comes with three other applications: Sunset Garden Problem Solver, Black and Decker Landscape Construction and Design, and The Better Homes and Gardens Guide to Gardening. This trio of helpful resources will fill out the encyclopedia of gardening information available to users. With these additional sources, you can extend your gardening expertise indefinitely, turning to this CD-ROM library again and again. --Alyx Dellamonica
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Remodel and redecorate fast and easily with this versatile and fun tool for generating new ideas. See what your project will look like before you spend a penny. Plan one room or your whole home. Total 3D Home Landscape Deluxe 3 gives you more tools and features to help make your remodeling or redecorating project a success. Scan in a 2-D plan, choose from over 1,000 customizable floor plans, or create your own. See all of your costs at a glance to keep your budget under control as the smart estimator tracks every change you make. Experiment with brand-name furnishings, windows, appliances, and more. Sample ideas from interactive designer showrooms. Featuring over 50 designer showrooms, 24,000 brand-name items, the manufacturer's product catalog CD, and much more.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM!!!,
By Judith A. Williams (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 (CD-ROM)
Landscape and garden designers, whether amateur or professional, are STRONGLY CAUTIONED against buying this product. In addition to being difficult to use, it contains numerous bugs. The program will crash repeatedly, even with the most current computer equipment and video drivers. Worst of all, it has a tendency to crash and produce an irretrievably "corrupt" file when a plan has gotten large and detailed. This then prevents that file from ever being used, and it cannot be reversed. This happened to this review's writer after having invested over two weeks of work on a landscape design. Broderbund software tech support could offer no help other than to state that this apparently happens all the time! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
total 3d landscape delux 3.0,
By A Customer
This review is from: Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 (CD-ROM)
Unless you want to be completely frustrated, I would not recommend this program. The 'handles' used to shape terrain, ponds, etc. often do not work and you can not work within a grid when laying out the terrain so you have no idea where the hills are in relation to the house. Building the house is very confusing because of the way the program has set up 'levels' for the house. Sometimes you see the house, sometimes you only see the fence, sometimes you can modify existing structures, other times you can not. Definitely not a user friendly system. Also, the plants are mislabeled: an iris is labeled as a clematis, a verbena is labeled as a stokesia, the same photo is used to portray two aster varieties, etc. As far as I know, you can not make a plant cascade over a wall. I could go on....The technical support people do not answer emails and the help phone number is computerized; I waited for 15 minutes and then hung up.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very disappointing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 (CD-ROM)
Clumsy, unstable program. Persistent crashes and lots of run-time errors. No one available at tech support. Not worth the trouble it takes to install.
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