Alpha Trees - Render massive forests, fast

[Strike_Digital (Andrew Stevenson)]

I’ve just updated my other addon Weight layers to Blender 3.0!

Weight Layers addon (Free)

[Weight Layers logo banner thin] Hi, guys, for the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a new addon for creating fast, procedural weight maps (vertex groups) that can be edited in the form of layers: https://giant.gfycat.com/LiquidBoilingAfricanfisheagle.webm https://giant.gfycat.com/ThoseBowedDotterel.webm Some of the features are: Customisable layer system Ability to bake layers down to vertex groups Ability to output result to any attribute (vertex groups, vertex colours, geo node…

This is important for Alpha Trees because Weight Layers is going to come packaged with it, and will be used to control density and scaling of trees (this will be automatic, you won’t have to install anything other than the base Alpha Trees addon).
It will mean that you will be able to create complex and realistic distributions easily in the form of layers.

Here’s a couple of demos of it working:

https://gfycat.com/thoseboweddotterel

https://gfycat.com/liquidboilingafricanfisheagle

If you want to try it out before then, you can get it here (it’s free!):

Weight Layers Blender addon