• Connor

  over 3 years ago

  Really insane addon for quick concept iteration. Quickly becoming a must-have in my toolbox!

• Fernando Sanchez

  over 3 years ago

  A good plugin with lots of options for scattering, BUT.. very good for Sacattering up to.. let's say 1 sqr. Km... if you want to scatter large real size terrains (more than 1Km , lets say 20Kms, 100 Kms) ... not this addon. No. Even preparing the masks or tuning it before scattering, it just hangs. I know.. blender limits.. but I think it is absolutly necesary thay the programmer implements pre-fine tune settings so it dont begin scattering as soon as anything is done, AND a better way to LOD vegetation for large scale terrains. That's why I give 3 stars: great for small size things.. BAD for large scale.

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  BD3D

  over 3 years ago

  Hello Fernando,
  Thanks a lot for your feedback!
  I have a few things to say regarding Scatter optimization and blender viewport performance:

  -Scatter already have "pre-fine tune settings" to hide particles on creation, reduce particle viewport density percentage on creation, set instances to bounding box/proxy on creation. Scatter also has security actions that will automatically do these operations if the custom threshold limits have been reached.

  -"Blender limitation" indeed, i believe that you may have an unreal expectation of what an OpenGL viewport can achieve. While it's completely possible to render billions of particles in cycles, doing the same in a real-time engine such as the live viewport of blender is completely impossible in the year 2020. Games-Engines could achieve the illusion by using complex technologies such as variable distance LOD, billboards, and super optimized normal map - transparency based shaders with their assets. Blender is not a game engine and doesn't possess the same technologies. Rendering complex landscapes in blender ray-tracing engine will require you to hide your particles within the viewport.

  Note that the Scatter plugin is already innovating a lot in this area with a LOD/Proxy system and camera clipping/culling features with advanced options such as ray-casting visibility, not proposed natively by Blender, that is drastically improving the experience for a lot of users out there. And we try to push it even more, by developing a point cloud display technology, currently in Beta testing.

  I hope this answers your Remark.
  Bests,
  Dorian
• Donald Dade

  over 3 years ago

  This is one of the addons that I simply cannot live without. Support is very fast and there's an incredible amount of detail in the large set up biomes in the Pro version. Kudos to the dev, really, for a job really nicely done... it makes me seem like a much better Blender user than I actually am :)

• Maciej Niezgódka

  over 3 years ago

  This is the top of useful Blender addons. It is so time saver and so wide possibilities to tweak that my brain can't handle it in one second. It is worth to have it in your addon portfolio. Congratulation to the author. Thank you for this wonderful piece of software.

• janex

  over 3 years ago

  Great thanks. There is nothing to deliver a full purpose.

• Daniel

  over 3 years ago

  Clearly the best addon for scattering vegetation and everything else you can imagine

• Alex DeBord

  over 3 years ago

  Amazing addon and truly a life saver when doing animations, absolutely love using this and all the features and settings that come with it; plus the response time from the support side is amazing. Would recommend this to any blender user!

• Corey

  over 3 years ago

  I've only just started using this tool and with a little assistance from the documentation, and the creator of the addon, I'm on a roll.

  It's worth it. Get it and try it yourself. =]

• JayDead

  over 3 years ago

  Now that I've tasted the power of scatter, there's no turning back.

  Extremely polished add-on with a bunch of content. Highly recommended if you have any intention to scatter objects on regular basis.

• ChameleonScales

  over 3 years ago

  flippin' awesome !

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