Open World Tools Property Reference

Mesh

Defines which Static Mesh will be used.

Component Class

The component class to use for foliage instances. You can make a Blueprint subclass of FoliagedInstancedStaticMeshComponent to implement custom behavior and assign that class here.

Override Materials

Material overrides for foliage instances.

Z Offset

Specifies a range from minimum to maximum of the offset to apply to a foliage instance's Z location.

Align to Normal

Whether foliage instances should have their angle adjusted away from vertical to match the normal of the surface they're painted on. If AlighnToNormal is enabled and RandowYaw is disabled, the instance will be rotated so that the +X axis points down-slope.

Random Yaw

If selected, foliage instances will have a random yaw rotation around their vertical axis applied.

Random Pitch Angle

A random pitch adjustment can be applied to each instance, up to the specified angle in degrees, from the original vertical.

Ground Slope Angle

Foliage instances will only be placed on surfaces sloping in the specified angle range from the horizontal.

Height

The valid altitude range where foliage instances will be placed, specified using minimum and maximum world coordinate Z values.

Landscape Layers

If a layer name is specified, painting on Landscape will limit the foliage to areas of Landscape with the specified layer painted.

Collision with World

If checked, an overlap test with existing world geometry is performed before each instance is placed.

Collision Radius

The CollisionRadius determines when two instances overlap. When two instances overlap a winner will be picked based on rules and priority.

Shade Radius

The ShadeRadius determines when two instances overlap. If an instance can grow in the shade this radius is ignored.

Num Steps

The number of times we age the species and spread its seeds.

Initial Seed Density

Specifies the number of seeds to populate along 10 meters. The number is implicitly squared to cover a 10m x 10m area.

Average Spread Distance

The average distance between the spreading instance and its seeds. For example, a tree with an AverageSpreadDistance 10 will ensure the average distance between the tree and its seeds is 10cm.

Spread Variance

Specifies how much seed distance varies from the average. For example, a tree with an AverageSpreadDistance 10 and a SpreadVariance 1 will produce seeds with an average distance of 10cm plus or minus 1cm.

Seeds Per Step

The number of seeds an instance will spread in a single step of the simulation.

Distribution Seed

The seed that determines placement of initial seeds.

Can Grow in Shade

If true, seeds of this type will ignore shade radius overlap tests with other types.

Spawns in Shade

Whether new seeds are spawned exclusively in shade. Occurs in a second pass after all types that do not spawn in shade have been simulated. Only valid when CanGrowInShade is true.

Max Initial Age

Allows a new seed to be older than 0 when created. New seed will be randomly assigned an age in the range[0,MaxInitialAge].

Max Age

Specifies the oldest a seed can be. After reaching this age the instance will still spread seeds, but will not get any older.

Overlap Priority

When two instances overlap we must determine which instance to remove. The instance with a lower OverlapPriority will be removed. In the case where OverlapPriority is the same regular simulation rules apply.

Procedural Scale

The scale range of this type when being procedurally generated. Configured with the Scale Curve.

Scale Curve

Instance scale factor as a function of normalized age(i.e. Current Age / Max Age). X = 0 corresponds to Age = 0, X = 1 corresponds to Age = Max Age. Y = 0 corresponds to Min Scale, Y = 1 corresponds to Max Scale.

External Curve

For and external curve.

Mobility

Mobility property to apply to foliage components.

Cull Distance

The distance where instances will begin to fade out if using a PerInstanceFadeAmount Material node. 0 disables. When the entire cluster is beyond this distance, the cluster is completely culled and not rendered at all.

Cast Shadow

Controls whether the foliage should cast a shadow or not.

Affect Dynamic Indirect Lighting

Controls whether the foliage should inject light into the Light Propagation Volume. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

Affect Distance Field Lighting

Controls whether the primitive should affect dynamic distance field lighting methods. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

Cast Dynamic Shadow

Controls whether the foliage should cast shadows in the case of non precomputed shadowing. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

Cast Static Shadow

Whether the foliage should cast a static shadow from shadow casting lights. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

Light Map Resolution

Overrides the lightmap resolution defined in the static mesh.

Collision Presets

Select collision presets. You can set this data in Project Settings.

Custom Navigable Geometry

Cast Shadow as Two Sided

Whether this foliage should cast dynamic shadows as if it were a two sided material.

Receives Decals

Whether the foliage receives decals.

Use as Occluder

If enabled, foliage will render a pre-pass which allows it to occlude other primitive, and also allows it to correctly receive DBuffer decals. Enabling this setting may have a negative performance impact.

Enable Density Scaling

Whether this foliage type should be affected by the Engine Scalability system's Foliage scalability setting. Enable for detail meshes that don't really affect the game. Disable for anything important. Typically, this will be enabled for small meshes without collision(e.g. grass) and disabled for large meshes with collision (e.g. trees).

Grass Varieties

Grass Varieties.

Grass Mesh

Grass Mesh.

Use Grid

If true, use a jittered grid sequence for placement, otherwise use a halton sequence.

Placement Jitter

Placement Jitter.

Start Cull Distance

The distance where instances will begin to fade out using a PerInstanceFadeAmount material node. 0 disables.

End Cull Distance

The distance where instances will have completely faded out when using a PerInstanceFadeAmount material node. 0 disables. When the entire cluster is beyond this distance, the cluster is completely culled and not rendered at all.

Min LOD

Specifies the smallest LOD that will be used for this component. If -1(default), the MinLOD of the static mesh asset will be used instead.

Scaling

Specifies grass instance scaling type.

Scale X

Specifies the range of scale, from minimum to maximum, to apply to a grass instance's X Scale property.

Scale Y

Specifies the range of scale, from minimum to maximum, to apply to a grass instance's Y Scale property.

Scale Z

Specifies the range of scale, from minimum to maximum, to apply to a grass instance's Z Scale property.

Random Rotation

Whether the grass instances should be placed at random rotation (true) or all at the same rotation(false).

Align To Surface

Whether the grass instances should be tilted to the normal of the landscape(true), or always vertical(false).

Use Landscape Lightmap

Whether to use the landscape's lightmap when rendering the grass.

Random Seed

The seed used for generating the randomness of the simulation.

Tile Size

Length of the tile (in cm) along one axis. The total area of the tile will be TileSize * TileSize.

Num Unique Tiles

The number of unique tiles to generate. The final simulation is a procedurally determined combination of the various unique tiles.

Foliage Types

The types of foliage to procedurally spawn.

Foliage Type Object

The foliage type that will be spawned by the procedural foliage simulation.