Decal Scatter

Short Description

Scatters decals on meshes with customizable properties.

Description

The Decal Scatter tool allows users to efficiently scatter decal assets on specified meshes in a scene. It provides a range of customizable properties to control the density, scale, rotation, and masking of the decals, ensuring flexibility and precision in decoration workflows.

Properties

Base Properties

• Surface: Meshes to scatter on

• Decals: Decal assets to scatter

• Density: Scatter density

• Min Scale: Minimum scale for random scale

• Max Scale: Maximum scale for random scale

• Surface Align: Adjusts the alignment of the decals to the surface.

• Depth: Depth of decals.

• Scale: Default extent of decals in cm

• Sink: Pushes your instanced objects downwards, very practical for trees

• Max Count: Maximum count of scattered decals

• Seed: Random seed for scattering variations

Feature Masking

• Slope Mask: Masks objects by the angle of the underlying surface area under them

• Min Height Mask: Minimum height at which objects should be clamped

• Max Height Mask: Maximum height at which objects should be clamped

Proximity Mask

• Proximity: Proximity meshes ensure that only scattered objects nearby are kept

• Distance: Controls the proximity distance

• Sampling: A higher value results in more precise proximity masking, but at a heavier cost

• Width: Width of the proximity mask, allowing for strokes/slices of your scatter setup.

Rotation Properties

• Incremental Spin: Write your incremental values as ints or floats, separated by spaces.

• Sort Increments: If set to True, the incremental values will be applied in order, instead of randomly

• Uniform Angle: Adjust the spin of the decals.

• Spin: Give random spin to decals, ensuring great rotation variation

• Rotation Jitter: Additional random spin

Noise Mask

• Breakup: Controls the intensity of the noise/breakup.

• Breakup Scale: Frequency of the noise mask; controls the scale of the noise

• Smoothness Noise: Controls how sharp/soft the noise mask is

• Warp Noise: Deforms the noise mask, creating interesting mask shapes

• Noise Scale Multiplier: Multiplier for noise scale

• Noise Scale X: Scale of noise in the X direction

• Noise Scale Y: Scale of noise in the Y direction

• Noise Scale Z: Scale of noise in the Z direction

Border Masking

• Border Offset: Masks scattered objects along the surface's borders.

• Border Min: Minimum distance offset from the border mask value

• Border Max: Maximum distance offset from the border mask value

• Border Noise: Applies noise on the border mask

• Border Sampling: A higher value results in more precise border masking, but at a heavier cost

Object Masking

• Objects: Samples objects near the meshes using raytracing for mesh proximity masking.

• Distance: Controls distance of the padding we add to the inside mask

• Keep Inside: When set to true, only keeps what's inside of meshes.

• Invert: Inverts the mask