FoliageLab - Cluster

Foliage grows where you point.

Point your source collection at your foliage meshes. Place anchor points where growth should start. Cluster handles the rest.

Meshes

• Detects meshes from any Blender collection — LOD0 objects become actors, higher LOD levels are stored automatically for Bake LODs
• Automatically recognizes LOD groups by naming convention (Leaf_A_LOD0, Leaf_A_LOD1…)
• Assign meshes to buckets and set their target anchor index — controls exactly which anchors each mesh spawns on

Mesh Hierarchy

• Base Mesh with its own deformations — Curl, Fold, Twist, Noise
• Organize actors into buckets — each with independent Rotation, Scale, Variance and Deformations
• Parent — each bucket can spawn on top of any previous bucket, or directly on the Base Mesh, building growth layer by layer
• Per-bucket Seed for controlled variation across groups
• Assign multiple meshes per bucket for natural variety
• Duplicate any bucket to reuse its parameters as a starting point

Lighting

• Per-bucket vertex normal control — adjust how instances catch light without touching the geometry
• Global mode — blend normals toward World Up based on actor size, by size bracket (Tiny to Huge)
• Local mode — Smooth, Parent Puffiness, and directional Adjustments (Up, Right, Out, World Up)
• Normal Overlay — visualize vertex normals per bucket directly in the viewport

Manual Adjustments

• Freeze the preview and adjust instances directly in the viewport
• Actor Override — swap the mesh on any individual instance without rebuilding the preview
• Instance Deformations — override Curl, Fold, Twist, Noise per instance independently of the bucket
• Delete selected instances directly in the viewport
• Confirm or Reset adjustments at any time

Output

• Live preview before baking — updates in real time as parameters change
• Explode View — spread baked LODs side by side with adjustable Spacing
• Bake Branch — finalizes the composition as a single clean mesh (LOD0)
• Bake LODs — generates the full LOD chain. Remove Missing LODs option available

Want the full pipeline? the FoliageLab bundle saves you 30% on the complete suite.

Requirements -

• Blender 4.2+ - This tool is not compatible with Blender 5.0+

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New licensing options are now available:

Standard License

• For individual artists, freelancers, and solo developers.
• No redistribution or resale.

Extended Commercial License

• Valid for the purchasing company.
• Covers employees and contractors working on behalf of the purchasing company.
• Unlimited internal commercial use across all company projects.
• No redistribution, resale, or transfer outside the purchasing company.

Note for existing customers: If you already own a Standard License, nothing changes for you. Your license remains fully valid. This update simply clarifies the licensing terms and introduces an Extended Commercial License for studios and companies.