This sprint was focused on improving the PCG system to make the spawning of the ferns more natural. Also this is the sprint where I added the ability for grass to spawn as well.
The grass was my nightmare. Because of the number of points that need to be calculated each time, I have spent well over 6 hours in total waiting for debug cubes to generate. Eventually, it did all come together though. The grass is using a point grid and a distance node to create a radial effect of being smaller the farther away from the center it is.
The large and small ferns are now combined into a single spawner, and have a cluster applied to them to make them spawn closer together. It's not much, but it's honest work.
There was no update to the tree spawning other than the mesh that was replaced after I took my renders.
Also, I have learned the amazing power of the Named Reroute Node. It allows you to be super clean with your PCG code and not have wires everywhere. Editor parameters have been added for quick iterations.
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Radial Grid Grass Spawning
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| Grass Spawning Based on Normal |
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| Grass-Only Render |
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| Fern New Clumping Locations |
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| Fern + Grass Render |
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| Close-up shot of environment spawning |
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| Editable Parameters in Editor |
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| Clean Blueprint (No wires) |
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