Overview

The Foliage Painter is used to manage all vegetation on your level, for example, rocks, grass, bushes, etc. The main advantage of using the Foliage Painter is that it allows you to “paint” foliage with a brush.

The engine only allows ONE foliage per level!

Setup

To enable the foliage painter in your scene:

Look in the entity list for foliage → foliage. This will create a foliage object in your scene.
Adjust the scale for real-size measures or the same measurement from the terrain.
Generate foliage.
Press "edit".

Control Modes

Set	Foliage set which you can edit in Foliage Manager.
Utils	Generate – generates foliage colors by making a screenshot from above. Refresh HMap – if you are changing terrain or adding static objects, you need to refresh an HMap on foliage because the foliage has its heightmap and objects can be above or under the terrain.
Fuzziness	0.2-0.3 acceptable value for more accurate reproduction of the drawn color.
Pixel Density	It is the size of a generic texture. It does not affect density. Quality increases due to a large number of points per meter.
Color Mask Size, KB	Texture size.
Height Map Size, KB	Texture size.

General Brush

You can paint the terrain with a foliage brush.

Tool	Description	Shortcut
Radius	The radius of a brush. Its value is in meters.	SHIFT+MouseWheel or MouseWheel or [ ]
Hardness	How smooth the decrease of color intensity is to the edges of the brush.	CTRL+MouseWheel or <>
Intensity	The power of the brush.	ALT+MouseWheel or 0...9
Smooth Step	Makes the toe and shoulder of the brush smooth. If you want to make a linear diagonal line, disable it.	-
Color Def	The color which you paint your terrain. It's selected in the Foliage Manager.	-
Color	The color which you can customize with a Color Picker.	-
RGBA	Customize the color manually.	-

You can enable the foliage color debug in Debug → Preview Foliage Colors.

Shape

Type	By default, it is a box.
Position	The foliage object's position.
Rotation	The foliage object's rotation.
Half Size	The foliage object's half size.

RMB Utils

Selected Objects by Property	Select all objects that have the same value of a selected property as the value of the selected object.
Entities Filter	Add Objects by Property – add all objects with the same property and value to the Entity filter window. Remove Objects by Property – delete all objects with the same property and value in the Entity filter window.
Reset to Default	Reset the property to default values.
Copy	Copy the value of the selected property.
Paste	Paste the value of the selected property.
Export Properties	This function is unavailable.
Import Properties	This function is unavailable.
Edit Hint	Edit a hint for the selected property. The hint is stored here: *tools/editor/meta/props_metadata.lua*
Show Description	Show the panel description of the selected property, if it exists.
Add to Highlight List	Add the selected property to the highlighted list.
Show Highlighted Only	If enabled, this will show only the highlighted properties.
Edit Custom Caption	You can rename properties with custom captions.
Clear Custom Caption	Reset custom captions of properties.
Disable Custom Captions	Disable the display of custom captions.
Show Advanced Filter	Enables the display of the advanced filter. This is where you can filter properties by categories.

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