Smart Asset Placer: paint, click and scatter whole scenes in Blender

Fill a landscape in minutes. Pick your assets, pick the ground, choose a preset, and Smart Asset Placer scatters everything live with Geometry Nodes. Then paint more in, erase what you don't want, or click to place single pieces exactly where they belong.

Scatter layers

• One click per layer, with presets for Grass, Rocks, Trees, Debris, Props and Clutter

• Save your own presets and use them in every file

• Density, spacing and seed, with a safety limit so huge scatters never freeze Blender

• Show the scatter as boxes or points, or only part of it, to keep the viewport fast

Paint and place

• Brush to paint assets on, Ctrl to erase

• Click to place single assets, scroll to rotate, Ctrl+scroll to resize

• Row tool: click two points to lay down fences, lamps or crates

• Asset Mix: set how common each asset is

Where it grows

• Limit by slope and height

• Paint exactly where a layer should grow

• Natural patches instead of an even carpet

• Random size, stretch, tilt and rotation, aligned to the ground or kept upright

Keep clear

• Keep paths, roads and buildings clear, with a margin you set

• Stop layers overlapping, so rocks never spawn inside trees

• Soft edge fade near anything you keep clear

Camera and wind

• Only scatter near the camera, to keep huge scenes fast in renders too

• Wind with strength, speed, direction and gust size

Finishing touches

• Colour variation so every copy looks a little different

• Fix Origins puts each asset's base on the ground

• Scatter one layer across several grounds, or copy it to another one

• Make Real turns the scatter into real objects, or one merged mesh, ready for game engines

Tested on Blender 5.2.
Credits to https://sketchfab.com/ktarsis for models used in preview