Hello there.

This is a proprosal for Grass Plugin 4 Godot 3.0 (yes, this is too the third refactory of the plugins code) ^_

Since Godot 1.1 the original Grass Plugin has fallen.

Some people dedicate his time to help me, but with new Godot 3.0 the plugin need a rewrite in core.

I dedicate this thread to discuss the implementation in Godot 3.0 render engine and feature requests.

For now the plugin need the basic changes:

1. Rewrite ui integration with editor

The actual ui appears useful, but the integration in editor environment need rewrite on the hack used to put a pencil in screen.

2. Decide the better way, to install/unistall the plugin in Godot

Since 1.1 is not global plugin suport anymore.

Current design of plugins in Godot consider it as used to a part of projects, and shared between team members, but this plugin is not designed to work as a part of a project, and in a team is useful just to 3D creator to put grass in scene; It result in a lot of unecessary files in project file!

3. Change the saved data format to a tscene compatible format

The actual plugin save data in a script inside project, it result in a little performance loss on startup, and some users consider this meta-code very intrusive;

The new default format tscene of Godot is usefull to solve it, save the entire arrays in final objects inside a Godot scene, but I not know how save plugin meta data.

4. Optimize final product to render performance;

Current plugin render use AABB system to swap between lod levels and number of rendered itens; This is effective to increases the performance (I tested in mobile), but I not know the new Godot's internal render to make it better; And need a other work to make this system dynamic in real time.