Errant Biomes

📄️ Introduction

Errant Biomes can be used to procedurally spawn all kinds of objects in the level.

📄️ Video tutorial

The tutorial shows only a small portion of the plugin features and workflows.

📄️ First steps

Here are the first steps to take to setup a newly created level:

📄️ Biomes

A biome is a region in a world with distinct geographic features. A World can contain mutliple Biomes.

📄️ Species

Species is a group of similar individuals.

📄️ Input Masks

The Errant Biomes system can be orchestrated using a variety of mask inputs. These inputs can be conveniently forwarded to species or sub-biome material masks.

📄️ Painting Masks

You can create and hand-paint masks using the Paint Mask tool in the toolbar.

📄️ Instanceable Blueprints

Species support spawning blueprints, but this is sub-optimal in terms of performance and memory usage.

When modifying biomes, you don't need to regenerate the entire world every time. Instead, you can regenerate only a selected part of the world, which is quicker than a full regeneration. Once you are satisfied with the changes, you can then regenerate the entire world.

📄️ Tips and Tricks

Put species in sub-biomes

📄️ Freezing

You can select a fragment of the world and freeze it. Optionally you can convert spawned instances from that fragment into actors and then tweak them manually.