--- title: The Grove 2.3 Released | daily.dev description: The Grove 2.3 is now available with full support for Blender 5.0 and Houdini Indie. Key updates include an upgraded Draw tool that lets users draw entirely new... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-grove-2-3-released-hkolvkcin twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Grove 2.3 Released | daily.dev og:description: The Grove 2.3 is now available with full support for Blender 5.0 and Houdini Indie. Key updates include an upgraded Draw tool that lets users draw entirely new... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-grove-2-3-released-hkolvkcin og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HKolvKCiN.png og:image:alt: The Grove 2.3 Released og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Grove 2.3 Released **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Grove 2.3 is now available with full support for Blender 5.0 and Houdini Indie. Key updates include an upgraded Draw tool that lets users draw entirely new trees from the ground plane or scene objects at any simulation stage, a new Subdivide option for smoother curved branches, a GPU-friendly mesh structure similar to three.js/WebGL/glTF formats, and automatic bark texture scaling around branch circumference. The update also delivers significant storage overhead reductions and an improved web demo. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Get This Free Houdini Toolkit For Hierarchical Structures](https://daily.dev/posts/get-this-free-houdini-toolkit-for-hierarchical-structures-8c5yr9myf) · 80 LEVEL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#3d](https://daily.dev/tags/3d), [#blender](https://daily.dev/tags/blender) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-grove-2-3-released-hkolvkcin) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Grove 2.3 Released","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-grove-2-3-released-hkolvkcin","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-grove-2-3-released-hkolvkcin"},"datePublished":"2026-03-02T09:12:19.211Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T09:12:37.477Z","description":"The Grove 2.3 is now available with full support for Blender 5.0 and Houdini Indie. Key updates include an upgraded Draw tool that lets users draw entirely new...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/40795fc526e258fec02ef1a4c3474f6c?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/40795fc526e258fec02ef1a4c3474f6c?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"80 LEVEL","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"80 LEVEL","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/78eebcd76c154e6bbfd565fed7dc4093","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/80lv"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-grove-2-3-released-hkolvkcin","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"game-development,3d,blender","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"80 LEVEL","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/80lv"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Grove 2.3 Released"}]} ```