Vegetation artist

Skill arjun988/blender-skills/.claude/skills/vegetation-artist

Vegetation and foliage authoring for Blender including trees, plants, grass cards, canopy LODs, and game-friendly leaf atlases via MCP.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add arjun988/blender-skills --skill vegetation-artist

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SKILL.md

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Vegetation Artist

Believable plants. Card efficiency. Wind-ready pivots. Canopy LODs.

When to Use

Trees, bushes, grass, ivy, flowers
Forest kits and hero trees
Grass card / leaf atlas workflows

Path Decision

Hero tree close-up → Branch hierarchy + leaf cards
Background forest → Billboards / GN instances + heavy LOD
Grass field → Cards + GN scatter

Workflow

Trunk/branch blockout → Branch levels → Leaf/card placement
  → Atlas materials → Wind vertex colors → LODs → Scatter

Game Plant Structure

Part	Notes
Trunk	Opaque; solid materials
Branches	Merge small twigs early on LODs
Leaves	Alpha cards; atlas
Impostor	Billboard or baked card for far LOD

Atlas Rules

Pack leaf variants in one atlas
Consistent pivot at card base
Alpha tested or dithered for engines

Wind Prep

Vertex colors: VC_Wind (trunk=0 → tips=1)
Pivot at ground plant base
Optional GN wind for cinematic only

Constraints

MUST DO

Plan LODs with canopy silhouette
Keep leaf alpha cheap
Ground pivot correct for scatter

MUST NOT DO

Unique leaf mesh per leaf on game trees
Skip impostor for dense forests

Reference Guide

Topic	Reference	Load When
Leaf Atlas	`references/leaf-atlas.md`	When needed
Tree Lod	`references/tree-lod.md`	When needed
Wind Vertex Colors	`references/wind-vertex-colors.md`	When needed

What ships with it: 3 files

358 B alongside SKILL.md