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Plant forests with the Foliage Tool, PCG or the Forest Scatter, which plants from a seed at runtime and can follow a density mask to keep roads, villages and water clear. Untouched trees stay merged Nanite meshes, with collision only near players and working villagers. The tree the player hits becomes interactive on the spot. With Prebuild Trees turned on (off by default), the trees nearest the player are prepared ahead of time and the swap takes about 0.2 ms. 12,000 trees run at 28-30 fps on an RTX 3070 Ti (1600x900, Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps), and an example map holds 1.5 million trees.

Cut a tree at the base, or cut a single branch where the tool hits. The tree falls with physics, breaks its branches and leaves a stump, and the trunk becomes logs to process into planks, wedges and beams. Building a tree is about four and a half times faster than in the Blueprint version. Any tree mesh, such as one from a Fab pack or a SpeedTree export, can also be made choppable: it falls whole and leaves a stump.

Turn on the forest (one project setting, off by default) and every tree that was touched keeps its state (chopped, felled, stump, growing back) under a stable id, even when its area streams out and back in. The forest's changes export as a few bytes per touched tree for your own SaveGame. Your game drives the forest's time, so trees grow back over game hours, and it sets the season, wind and weather that the trees' materials show.

Functions for Blueprint and C++ find the nearest free tree, reserve it, and give where to stand and where it will fall. They chop without traces and work or collect the wood without aiming. Trees far from every player and working villager are felled on paper: the stump appears and the wood is reported at once, with no falling tree spawned. Remove Trees In Box clears a building plot. Events report each fall, impact and collected piece, including who collected it.

20 named species, each in 4 ages, with its own leaf atlas and 15 bark materials shared among them: English Oak, Silver Birch, Scots Pine, Norway Spruce, Silver Fir and more. Lighter leaf clumps give merged trees 5 to 10 times fewer triangles, and the Scots and Black Pine needles grow from the branch tips at their real size. The tree shapes are more natural and can be adjusted per tree. Shape trees in the level with the Tree Designer and bake their merged meshes in the editor.

One command in the Tools menu creates the two collision channels on any free slot, and the plugin finds them by name. Place one tree manager in each level with trees. The cutting tool is added to the player's pawn, whatever pawn it is, and brings its own keys or uses your input. All content is cooked into packaged games, and the example maps play with an included demo character. For Windows, Unreal Engine 5.7 and 5.8, single player.

The prompt, chopping bar, demo panel and tool beam can each be switched off or replaced. Interface skins restyle them, and every interface text can be translated. Synthesized sounds cover every moment (chops, the crack and fall, the impact, breaking branches, wood work, collecting) in sound sets you can swap, including one per species, and wood-chip effects play at each chop and at wood work. You can also turn them off and drive your own audio from the sound event.

Trees can block the navigation mesh, the game's own sight and projectile channels, and carry your actor tags (a building system's 'blocks placement'). Forest shadows ignore the wind (on by default, the wind stops beyond 60 m), which keeps Virtual Shadow Maps affordable. Windows, Unreal Engine 5.7 and 5.8, single player, Nanite and Lumen with dynamic lighting.