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Biomes & Collections

The Biomes & Collections features are not yet released and will be available in version 1.1.7. Coming soon!

PF2B offers two ways to work with grouped plants: Biomes and Collections. Both systems help you quickly bring plants from PlantFactory into Blender, but they serve slightly different purposes.

Shared Library

Both systems write to the same .blend asset files, giving you a unified library.

  • Plants imported with Collections are instantly available to Biomes and can also be accessed directly in the Asset Browser.
  • Plants imported by Biomes are similarly available in the Asset Browser for direct use outside of biomes.

Biomes

In PF2B, a biome is a ready-made collection of plants designed to quickly build natural environments. Biomes are more than just plant lists, they are structured setups designed to work exclusively with third-party scattering plugins developed by bd3d:

These plugins handle the actual scattering of plants in your scene, making it easy to generate meadows, forests, wetlands, and other natural landscapes.

Choosing a Scattering Plugin

Biome-Reader is a free, simplified version best suited for hobbyists and beginners. Geo-Scatter is the full professional toolset with advanced controls, optimizations, and support.

Since Biome-Reader is free, you can start using PF2B biomes immediately, it works perfectly for exploring and scattering your first biomes.

The number of available biomes will continue to grow over time as new ones are added.

Collections

Collections are plant groups for bulk importing into your Blender Asset Library. They let you quickly populate categories of plants for use in the Asset Browser, without waiting for on-demand imports.

The number of available collections will also continue to grow over time.

When to Use

Feature Best For What You Get
Biomes Ready-made scattering setups Curated ecosystems integrated with Geo-Scatter or Biome-Reader
Collections Bulk asset import Direct access to plants in Blender’s Asset Browser

Notes

  • Both the Biomes and Collections importer are smart: they won’t import duplicate assets.
  • PF2B checks your existing Asset Library before importing to avoid unnecessary duplicates.
  • You can use menu options to review the status of plants in each category at any time.