/godot_spatial_gardener

A Godot plugin for painting plants and props on arbitrary 3D surfaces implemented in GDScript

Primary LanguageGDScriptMIT LicenseMIT

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A Godot plugin for painting foliage and props on any 3D surface

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What is it for?

It's meant to simplify foliage placement in a natural-feeling way without having to use heightmap terrain or writing procedural placement algorithms.

It can also handle thousands of foliage instances without completely tanking the FPS (with an reasonable setup).

This is a single player plugin and works best with finite medium-sized scenes. Think platformers, shooters, adventure games, anything with a hand-made level.

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Stability

Current stable release requires at least Godot v4.2.

Want a test-drive? Go to Releases and get the most recent windows build: godot_spatial_gardener_showcase_windows_x64_<version>.zip.

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Installation

This plugin is installed the same way as other Godot plugins.

Download the code by clicking green Code button and then Download ZIP. Unpack it anywhere you like.

Copy the folder addons/dreadpon.spatial_gardener/ to res://addons/ in your Godot project and enable it from Project -> Project Settings -> Plugins.

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Tutorial

For a detailed guide you can refer to my tutorial.

It comes in two formats, depending on your preference:

Text tutorial is the most up-to-date, but video better illustrates each step due to being a video, duh.


Contribution

If you want to report a bug or request a feature, you should do so on GitHub using Issues.

Refer here for more details.


Sponsor this project

You're welcome to support me on:

Or with crypto:

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This will help make updates for this plugin and embark on new exciting projects!

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Branding

You can use 'Spatial Gardener' logos on the basis of 'fair use' whenever you mention this plugin (e.g. in a video review/tutorial).

As long as you don't modify them in any way, claim as your own or redistribute/resell you should be fine.

You can download them here.


Third-Party Credits

Algorithms and code architecture

3D models

Audio

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