What’s new on Scatter 5.1?
We improved our scattering workflow, added a new fun to use lasso fill paint-mode and a new quick-scatter pie menu for all the power users who’d like to be extra fast thanks to a shortcuts based workflow! We also added 3 new brushes to manual mode and a lot more goodies and enhancements! Check out the full release note here.

The Fifth iteration is here for blender 3.0.
We completely improved every single corner of our plugin.
This is a massive remake, with solid foundations ready to stick in time for this new blender era.

Premium Features
There is an incredible amount of features packed in this plugin, here is a glimpse of the functionalities available here below.

Effortless
As the first big scattering toolset of blender, we have developed an effective and proven system over the past years. It’s very easy! Select any objects you’d like, choose your distribution preset, then just click on “Scatter”. Who told you that Scattering was difficult? This operator now support the new asset browser!

ID Maps
The texture pattern feature now supports multiple scatter-users per texture at the same time, influence by sampling colors has also been implemented, making this feature ideal for green-walls or flower-mats. ID maps is also a very useful way to control multiple scatter from one painting layer.

Flexible
The new flexible features of Scatter5 can be used in many various use cases, the only limit is your imagination! For example, use the rotation snap slider to scatter hardsurface greebles on your surface.

Editable
Scatter5 new “manual distribution mode” was born out of a simple idea: We wanted to create an alternative distribution workflow for artists, where users are able to paint instances like you would when painting on a canvas, with a set of various brushes to choose from, that will add, alter or remove matter.

Abiotics
The Abiotic Factors are all the terrain features that can influence your scatter-system, they are essential to give credibility and realism to your virtual world. Especially if you are scattering landscapes! Elevation, slope, curvature, orientation, watershed, Scatter5 got everything that is needed.

Precise
The new rotation and scale settings of Scatter5 are complete and precise, you have total control over how your instances are scaled, rotated, aligned, or tilted. You can for example create billboards effects easily.

Interactive
There are numerous new features in Scatter5 where the scattered instances can interact with chosen objects, for example, remove instances under a picnic table, near a building, or create the illusion of interactive collision by leaning instances near your characters.

Optimized
Scatter5 has top-of-the-line optimization features available; remove instances out of your FOV, add distance culling effects, display your instances as placeholder only in the viewport, ect… Thanks to such features, you will be able to work with a high number of items, unlocking your artistic potential.

Advanced
Achieve advance control on how your instances are assigned to your distributed points with the instances pick method. You will be able to assign instances by rate, by cluster, color ID maps, or even by the scale attribute, to guarantee instances with physically accurate scale.

Clump
The clump distribution method of Scatter4 has been revamped, with way more settings to influence your clump’s children scale/normal/tangent.

Dynamic
Create dynamic environments with scatter-layers that can influence one another. This is done by defining attraction or repulsion rules in the “ecosystem” sub menu.

Wind
The wind-wave feature will create the illusion of wind flowing in your scattered instances. Ideal if you want to add realism in your fields or grassy areas with only one click.

Innovative
Our goal is really to push the limit of what’s possible, scattering-wise, in b3d. We always try to innovate new functionalities. For example, Scatter5 can read generated or painted flowmap information, you can use a flowmap to influence your instances tilt or tangent direction.

Polished
The Scatter5 workflow is highly polished, you can achieve complex set-ups with ease! For example, in this demonstration, we are dynamically distributing smaller clumps of grass near obstacles and borders, to achieve a clean lawn scatter. The .blend file of this demo is available in our manual page.

Curious? Visit our interactive docs to overview all features!

Unveiling the Biomes
One of the most effective ways to work with Scatter5 is to use the biome system, it’s an exciting workflow we implemented in blender back in 2019, with one single click you can achieve amazing results.
It works for you
Sit back, relax, because the scattering will be done for you automatically. The biomes are combinations of scatter-layers encoded and saved with their assets.

Starter Pack Included
The cherry on top, Scatter5 is shipped with a starter pack of 80 biomes, made out of 180 various assets. It’s a nice way to start your journey into discovering the biomes system for blender. Discover the catalog here.

Create your own
With very few clicks you are able to save the layers you scattered to re-use them later, you can save your ecosystems, share them with your friends, or distribute them online freely.

Biome-Packs Available
The biomes files can be grouped in what we call “scatpacks” they are handy compressed-files from free or paid third parties providers you can install directly within Scatter5. Here below are all scatpacks officially supported. Anyone is free to create his own scatpacks of course.