Foliage Renderer

The Foliage Render is a replacement renderer for Unity Terrain Tree’s and Details rendering, using Instance Indirect rendering for faster rendering.

The Foliage Renderer replaces Unity Terrain’s Tree and Detail rendering with a faster, indirect rendering path.

Features:

• GPU based rendering, freeing up significant CPU time
• Cell based Streaming and Culling of terrain details
• GPU based Frustum Culling
• GPU based HI-Z Occlusion Culling in BiRP, HDRP & URP
• Supports up to 4 LODs per object with LOD Crossfade Support
• Supports LODs on Unity Terrain Details
• Support for Single Pass Stereo Rendering
• Ability to pass Height, Normal, and Albedo of terrain, as well as user defined per-terrain data to vegetation shaders.
• Custom shaders and shader code to allow conforming objects to the terrain
• Custom shaders and shader code to allow tinting objects with the terrain’s albedo
• Can overload visible distance and shadow distance per object
• Can overload max LOD usage for faster shadow rendering
• Compressed data structures for faster processing and reduced memory usage
• Works with The Vegetation Engine shaders
• Includes it’s own shader and stackables for Better Shaders, which supports albedo tint, conforming to the terrain, wind animation, and instancing support.
• Shader graph node for adding indirect instancing support to existing shaders
• Shader patcher to modify external 3rd party shaders
• One menu item selection to convert existing terrains to Foliage Renderer
• All source code included

Documentation

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