Video Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6eONHXtEmw&ab_channel=Seborn3D

This pack contains 59 unique game-ready & scientifically accurate tropical plant meshes made for use in Unreal 5 with Nanite and Lumen, ready to be used in large-scale environments. The assets consist of 5 species of tropical plants, as well as 4 additional unique dirt-filled pot meshes for use in smaller indoor environments:

• Taro (Colocasia esculenta)

• Monstera (Swiss Cheese Plant, Monstera deliciosa)

• Lemon Surprise Dracaena (Dracaena Deremensis)

• Norfolk Pilea (Friendship Plant, Pilea Involucrata)

• Nerve Plant (Fittonia Albivenis)

Each species consists of multiple variations for use in creating tropical landscapes, as well as vertically growing Monstera for use along walls or trees. For the 3 small species, there are versions combined with the pots for easy placement in indoor environments. The textures were created using real-world photographs of the plants and hand-modeled based on real-world reference, with extra care used to keep them scientifically accurate.

All of the meshes were made from the ground up to be used with Nanite: no texture transparency is used, meaning the plants are fully modeled and offer both high-fidelity and high-performance when using Nanite. No photogrammetry was used in their creation, allowing the textures to be intentionally laid-out and optimized. All of the plant materials are instanced from a single master, further increasing performance without sacrificing visual quality. The materials include a configurable simple wind, using distance-based WPO to add believable movement to the plants without sacrificing performance.

The pack comes with meshes already configured as foliage types for use with landscapes, as well as an example scene showing off the performance of the assets when thousands are used in a single scene (over 200,000 foliage instances).

Mesh makeup:

• Taro:

  • 7 full plant variations from juvenile to mature, 5 loose leaf meshes (12 total)

• Monstera:

  • 8 full plant variations from juvenile to mature, 4 vertically growing versions, 5 loose leaf meshes (17 total)

• Dracaena Lemon Surprise:

  • 5 full plant variations, 5 fallen petal mesh variations for each flowering color (10 total)

  • 5 combined plant+pot meshes for each type of pot (20 total)

• Norfolk Pilea:

  • 5 full plant variations, 5 fallen petal mesh variations for each flowering color (10 total)

  • 5 combined plant meshes for each type of pot (20 total)

• Nerve Plant:

  • 5 full plant variations, 5 fallen petal mesh variations for each flowering color (10 total)

  • 5 combined plant meshes for each type of pot (20 total)

• Pots:

  • 4 styles of pot, both dirt-filled and empty (8 total)