Getting familiar with the foliage assets

As we progress through this chapter, we’ll be using PCG model assets that I have specifically prepared for this exercise. These models originate from the PCGPplugin folder, but I have modified them to better suit our needs:

1. Navigate to the Models folder and you will find two models, which are called PCG_Bush_01 and PCG_Tree_02.

Figure 8.1 – Getting familiarized with the PCG models

2. As part of the model preparation process, we have to enable Nanite mode for each provided mesh in this example. Like we always do in this part of the exercise, right-click on each mesh and enable Nanite mode.

Figure 8.2 – Enable Nanite mode on each static mesh

LandscapeTexture

This exercise focuses on distributing foliage spawn across the landscape using a specific approach. What’s interesting is that the plugin allows projecting texture information onto...