Apparance Procedural Generation System v5.3

Apparance is a procedural generation plug-in designed to allow the interactive visual authoring of detailed and expansive 3D worlds. A play-space for procedural logic and their use in the generation of environments and objects. A fusion of programming and modelling that gives extensive control over your applications procedural elements.

The Apparance project is inspired by the flexibility of non-linear and node-based editing systems used in film, television, and games. The amazing compression achieved by the demo-scene using mathematics and procedural generation points towards the vast possibilities of large scale procedurally built game worlds.

Build Smart Objects

Build smart procedural objects out of your assets.
Drive placement of meshes, blueprints, components and their properties.
Parameterise in any way you need to drive generation logic.
Experiment with procedural generation of meshes* too.

Add Variety, Save Time

Increase variety in your game with unique generated assets
Save time and resources populating the spaces in your world
Build re-usable and modular objects

Fully Interactive Editing

Enjoy fully interactive editing of parameters, graph structure, and all internal values.
Scrub through the parameter space to find the results you are after.
Rapidly test thousands of combinations as you work.

Rapid Iteration

Rapidly iterate on your designs, play with graph configuration, explore your parameter space.
Drag-and-drop connections and procedures to experiment.

High Speed Run-time Generation

Fully run-time multi-threaded background generation
Mesh* accumulation and instanced rendering support
Allows for endless unique creations and experiences

Node Based Editor

Use node based scripting to author* your procedural logic.
Create powerful hierarchies of procedures yet manage graph complexity by building up a library of re-usable parts.
It's procedures all the way down until you reach a fundamental operator that does the work.

Comprehensive Documentation

Detailed documentation available online for plugin and editor
Directory of fundamental procedural operators
Support forums for questions, reporting, and discussion