Tools & Pipeline

Foliage Tools

Ivy Generator

ivy base on leaves.

ivy base on leaves.

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Smooth Normal Baker

NextPCG SpeedTree Smooth Normal Baker

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The normals coming with the leaf geometry often results in a messy and disorganized appearance, causing the leaves to look very ugly. SpeedTree comes with a spherical normal feature that can smooth these normals. The spherical normals of SpeedTree tend to flatten out the details and levels between different leaf clusters, and they are too far from the original geometry's shape, leading to many coloring issues.

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Landscape Tools

Landscape Import to Edit Layer

When the externally merged terrain is imported into the engine's landscape containing the Editor Layer, it can add the additional heightmap and mask layers exported from the terrain software.

ImportToEditLayer.mp4

Landscape Sub-Reigion Import

Import terrains by region, supporting default configuration of dimensions based on image size and terrain grid size, as well as rotation and scaling. Also supports adjusting the import range (i.e., gradient range size) via ccurves.

LandscapeRegionalImporter.mp4

Landscape Edit Layer Override Blend

Implements an EditLayer override approach that enables layered modifications from external plugins and those made within the engine.