Environmental Sculpting Kit Features:

Watch an overview of the plugin here!

• Non-Destructive Layers

  • Create, Remove, Tweak, Mask

  • Layer Noise Generators

• Smoothing and Polishing Algorithms

  • Conformal Willmore

  • Safe Laplacian

  • Safe Tauben

  • Fast Stylized (Experimental / It can be a menace to society)

• Modular String Instancing

  • Generate modular strings/arrays of collections.

  • Sync the generated strings with updates from the source collection.

• Quick Target and Cage generation

  • Manipulate the scales of the planes to match tiling.

  • Adjust the plane offset and depth to capture desired geometry in internal or external baking operations. (Actual baking operations are not currently incorporated into the plugin.)

• 10 Complimentary Noise Textures to use as desired.

  • Can be brought into a blender scene file as a texture and utilized as a custom texture in the Noise Type dropdown for layer noises.

For Blender 5.1+

Breakdown:

Non-Destructive Layers:

• + : Create a sculpt layer on the current actively selected object.

• - : Remove the selected sculpt layer on the current actively selected object.

• ✓ : Manually bakes all layer data onto the mesh, making permanent changes to the geometry.

• Monitor Icon: Disable the layer's influence completely. (OFF if monitor is not glowing and ON elsewise).

• Layer Opacity:

  • 1 = Full Value (Full opacity / weight of the sculpt layer onto the mesh).

  • 0 = No weight / no value of the sculpt layer onto the mesh (no influence).

  • -1 = Inverted influence of the sculpt layer onto the mesh (opposing influence).

  • 2 = Double the influence of the sculpt layer onto the mesh.

• Create Mask:

  • Enters sculpt mode. Ensure that you properly select the mask brush and create a masking selection before saving the mask!

  • After a mask is created, two new operations will appear.

    • Edit Mask:

      • Edit the mask associated with the layer.

    • Delete Mask:

      • Removes the mask from the layer and the system.

• Layer Noise Generators:

  • Noise Selection

    • Sine Waves

    • White Noise

    • Perlin Noise

    • Voronoi / Cell Noise

    • Custom Texture

  • Noise Scale

    • Size of the noise

  • Noise Strength

    • Strength of the noise (amplitude / gain)

  • Seed

    • Randomization of the noise if relevant

Smoothing and Polishing Algorithms:

• Conformal Willmore

  • Global Strength:

    • Influence of the algorithm over the mesh.

  • Iterations:

    • Times the operation is ran sequentially .

• Safe Laplacian

  • Global Strength:

    • Influence of the algorithm over the mesh.

  • Iterations:

    • Times the operation is ran sequentially .

• Safe Taubin

  • Global Strength:

    • Influence of the algorithm over the mesh.

  • Iterations:

    • Times the operation is ran sequentially .

• Fast Stylized (Experimental)

  • Pinch Strength:

    • Increases the strength of pinching for areas of the mesh that drastically change angles.

  • Chisel Strength:

    • Increases the operation strength of transition areas between edges and large plain areas on the mesh.

  • Smooth Strength:

    • Increases the smoothing operation based on the Macro Radius that smooths out areas on the mesh that are designated as areas that are not drastically changing angles.

  • Iterations:

    • Times the operation is ran sequentially.

  • Macro Radius: Increases the radius taken into consideration between vertex neighbors in the overall operation.

  • Threshold: Neighbor distance threshold.

  • Preserve Details: Attempts to preserve details associated with pinch strength.

  • Edge Contrast: Increases the weight of transition neighbors between edge transitions.

String Instancing:

• Offset Value

  • Global distance between string collection instances, can be overridden.

• Snapping On / Off

  • Snap the value to the grid on closest rounded value.

• Direction

  • Positive or Negative along the selected Axis.

• Axis

  • The axis designated to spawn the string along (X, Y, Z).

• Spawn Clearance

  • Distance away from the origin of the world.

• Add Slot

  • Add a collection slot.

  • Assign a letter value.

• Remove Slot

  • Remove a collection slot.

• Stride Value

  • Distance of length that the collection is supposed to occupy.

• Pattern String Text Input

  • Use letters assigned to the slot collections to generate strings

    • e.g. Add slot collection with letter A and another with B

    • Input A,A,A to get three instances of collection A that utilize either the global offset or the stride value if not 0.00.

    • Input A,B,A to get the collection instance B surrounded by collection instance A utilizing either the global offset or the stride values set per collection.

• Generate Modular String

  • Operation that utilizes the Pattern string to generate the instances.

• Sync Instances to Source

  • Updates the generated modular string instances to match whatever updates were made to the source collection.

Tile Bake Setup:

• Plane Scale

  • Resizes both the target plane and the cage plane synchronously.

• Target Offset

  • Offsets the distance of the target plane.

• Cage Distance

  • Offsets the distance of the cage from the target plane.

• Face Axis

  • Choose the axis (X, Y, or Z) on which to spawn the baking setup.

• Generate Target & Cage

  • Generates the cage based on the above parameters.

  • Recommended to remove the setup if it already exists-- currently it doesn't properly adjust pre-existing setups when changing axes.