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TerrainGroundCover

Since 0.7

Grass, flowers and forest-floor cover a terrain grows near the camera in HD, dense where the terrain's channels or layers say and coloured by the ground under it.

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Fields

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultAllowed valuesDescription
presetstringnoA built-in layer set: meadow, forest-floor or meadow-forest (the default when no cover is given).
coverobjectnoOwn layers instead of a preset: a GroundCover document. A layer's source.channel names terrain channels or terrain layers (their blend weight), alternatives separated by |; the densest of those the terrain has wins (meadow|grass).
distanceMnumbernoHow far from the camera the cover reaches, metres, 10..400; default 55.
densitynumbernoScales the blade count, 0..1; default 1.
carpetnumbernoHow much the ground under the cover is darkened toward it, 0..1; default 1.
groundTintnumberno0..1: how far the blades take the colour of the terrain under them; default 0.85.
setsobjectnoCover material sets for a preset's layers: layer id -> project-relative set folder (the same as a layer's material).