Procedural Vines

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Procedural Vines creates branching vine geometry beside collision surfaces. Start with the default wall mode, or enable Allow Horizontal Surfaces for floors, spheres, ramps and supported transitions between connected meshes. Choose a seed and tune branching, taper, smoothing, root flare and foliage. World-space exclusion boxes keep architectural openings clear. In the opt-in surface mode, one strand can continue across supported seams between separate collision meshes. Set an initial local growth direction and tune the step distance to the geometry. The route needs nearby collision support; it does not bridge unsupported air gaps or follow moving geometry automatically. Save a Vine Settings Preset to reuse growth settings and optional materials. Keep the current actor seed or explicitly override it. Tune Stem Twist and Leaf Size Variation in Details. The supplied wind materials animate leaves; generated stems stay rigid and the surface route is unchanged. Use procedural leaf quads, one instanced static mesh or a collection of leaf variations. Rebuild in the editor or request regeneration from Blueprint, then check completion and measured generation timings. Reveal or retract generated paths with growth progress, forward/reverse playback, pause and speed controls. Leaves keep their deterministic placements as the cached geometry is revealed. Disable foliage and tune radius, taper and root flare for thick roots. With Snap To Surface disabled, Tip Curl Angle and Tip Curl Start shape a free-space tentacle-like tip; growth playback follows that bent cached path. The separate Vine Climb Component gives a Character collision-based vertical and lateral traversal, release, jump-off and a top-edge mantle attempt. Connect your own inputs and animation logic. The component can climb any compatible blocking geometry, including the supporting walls. Explore the separate Overgrown Sanctuary example environment, with original stone architecture, ivy meshes and materials. Walk its terraces and stairs, try growth playback on the selected pier ivy, and inspect the editable camera sequence. Growth playback reveals cached geometry; it does not simulate biological growth or skeletal tentacle deformation. Material wind is a separate visual effect. Character animation, IK and network replication are not included.