[FREE] Vegetation Studio Pro Extensions (Open Source, GitHub)

Foreword: This asset is independent of the Vegetation Studio Pro thread and unsupported by the publisher of Vegetation Studio Pro, these tools are my own which I created for my own purposes. I thought I'd share in case anyone has use for them.

Most of you who know me probably figured out that Vegetation Studio Pro is one of the most amazing assets on the store for me and that everything I do basically evolves around it. I created several tools which I thought some of you might benefit from. So I thought I'd share. But in any case, if you have your own tools / extensions, please do feel free to contribute

You can find the extensions on GitHub:

http://bit.ly/VegetationStudioProExtensions

VegetationStudioProExtensions

The repository contains custom extensions for Vegetation Studio Pro. Feel free to use in your own projects.

Mask Extensions

Center / Grow / Shrink Vegetation and Biome Masks

Vegetation Mask Area

Adding the VegetationMaskAreaExtension.cs script to your Vegetation Mask Area will give you options to center the gameobject handle, grow the mask and shrink the mask.

Inspector:



Example:



Biome Mask Area

Adding the BiomeMaskAreaExtension.cs script to Biome Mask Area will give you options to center the gameobject handle, grow the mask and shrink the mask.

Inspector:



Example:



Mask Creation Menu

Custom menu in hierarchy for the creation of Biome and Vegetation Mask Area gameobjects. These will also add the VegetationMaskAreaExtension.cs or BiomeMaskAreaExtension.cs scripts:



More to follow, but as I said please do feel free to add your own to this thread

 

When I checked out ProRoad I noticed it doesn't have Vegetation Studio Pro integration yet, so the roads were full of grass. However, it did provide marker points for the created road. I didn't want to wait for the integration and created this general purpose extension:

Automatic creation of a Vegetation Mask Line

With the VegetationMaskLineExtension.cs extension attached to a gameobject you can have a Vegetation Mask Line automatically generated. All you have to do is provide it a container (parent gameobject). The transforms of the children of this container will be used to create a Vegetation Mask Line.

Inspector, empty:



Inspector, container specified:



Example:



Edit: I added a "Closed Path" option in case anyone wants to connect the last position with the first position.

 

A good tip for the markers here: There is a feature in ProRoad to export the active road's midline. This is a Prefab containing a set of GameObjects along the centre of the road placed in 4-meter steps. This GameObjects can be used as markers for your VegetationMask container. To export the data simply select ProRoad object -> Export -> Export midline. The midline will be saved under the root folder which can be set in Unity menu -> Tools/ProRoad/Preferences -> Output Folder.