Forest Tools – Ultimate Scattering System

Description

Forest Tools – The Ultimate Scattering Ecosystem.

Stop placing assets manually. Build entire ecosystems in minutes, not days.

Populating large environments in Unreal Engine is slow and repetitive.
Forest Tools gives you a fast, artist-driven way to create forests, ivy, and natural vegetation with full control and real-time feedback.

Built by an environment artist, for environment artists.

Why Forest Tools?

Precision Where It Matters: Use the PerfectCut system for Archviz-level accuracy—no more grass clipping through paths or stone slabs.
Cinematic Ivy & Lianas: Generate high-fidelity, physically inspired climbing growth directly in the editor.
Artist-First UI: Manage different scatters from a single, streamlined dashboard. No more hunting through the Outliner.
Built for Scale: Optimized for massive worlds. Thousands of instances, zero workflow lag.

Key Features

Scatter Anything, Anywhere: Static meshes, Decals, Splines, or Level Instances—scatter on any surface with full orientation control.
GPU Runtime Scattering: High-performance real-time scattering for dynamic environments.
Advanced Procedural Effects: Includes stepped rotation, height-based mesh swapping, edge-aware variations, and flow-aligned orientation.
Forest Groups: Procedurally cluster meshes to mimic natural growth patterns and organic diversity.
One-Click Presets: Save and reuse your favorite biomes to maintain consistency across entire projects.

Perfect For:

Game Developers: Create optimized, performant ecosystems for open-world titles.
Archviz Professionals: Achieve perfect edges and realistic scattering with zero manual cleanup.
Virtual Production & Cinematics: Rapidly iterate on lush, dense environments for high-end renders.

Note: Example scenes utilize Megascans assets for demonstration. Forest Tools is compatible with any mesh library and includes sample content to get you started immediately.

Technical Details

Number of Blueprints: 5

Number of C++ Classes: 8

Number of Meshes: 60

Number of Textures: 40

Number of PCG graphs: 35

Number of Material Functions: 2

Code Modules:

ForestTools (Runtime)
ForestToolsEditor (Editor)

Network Replicated: No

Supported Development Platforms: Windows (Win64)

Supported Target Build Platforms: Windows

Example Project: Not Included. (Demo levels are included directly inside the Plugin’s Content folder).

Important/Additional Notes: Enable required plugins: PCG Biome Core, PCG Biome Sample, Procedural Content Generation Framework (PCG), PCG External Data Interop, PCG Geometry Script Interop, and ProceduralMeshComponent.

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