Unreal Engine – Procedural Foliage Placement Tool

The
Procedural Foliage Placement Tool
lets you populate your scene with foliage in a matter of seconds. The tools allows for extensive configuration, including slope and height, obstacle avoidance, and 8 different spawning methods. Spawn 3 types of entities - meshes, instanced static meshes, and blueprint actor classes (any).

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Spawning Methods:

Random Location
- spawns foliage at random locations in the volume

Organic Clusters
- spawns clusters of foliage, where each entity spawns near the previous entity with a random offset

Clusters around actor
- spawns foliage around your specified actors

Along spline actors
- spawns foliage along an actor's spline component

Random patches
- Spawns foliage in a uniform patch pattern inside the volume

Grid Distribution
- spawns foliage in a strict grid distribution inside the volume

Spawn on Spawn Zones
- spawns foliage only inside the specified Spawn Zones (volumes assigned by the dev)

Hierarchical Clusters
- spawns foliage in a hierarchy giving a more logical distribution

All methods above respect slope and height restrictions and have obstacle avoidance.

Bonus:

Advanced Landscape Auto Material
- auto material that blends layers by height and slope. It also spawns foliage in all layers.

River Tool
- Spline-b