Field Spacer

A spacer field is an object, specifying geometry areas of grass and water that should not be rendered. Inside the spacer field, geometry is cut off gradually starting from the center of the field.

The spacer field allows you to dynamically adapt grass and water surface to other objects in the scene. For example:

• A field spacer can be used to specify area under a building and around it where grass should not grow. Moreover, by using the attenuation factor, it is possible to create thinner grass around the building.
• A field spacer can be set for a boat so that water is not rendered inside it.

Boat without the spacer field: water is inside the boat	Boat with the spacer field: the spacer field cuts water off

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To add a spacer field in the world via UnigineEditor, do the following:

1. On the Menu bar, choose Create -> Effect -> Field Spacer.

   

2. Place the spacer field in the world so that it intersects geometry required to be cut off:
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   Make sure that the Spacer interaction flag is set for materials applied to grass or water.
   • In case of grass, the spacer field should intersect the surface, on which grass grows.
   • In case of water, the spacer field should be submerged into water on the required depth. For example, the following pictures demonstrate the same spacer field submerged on different depth:

If you are going to use the spacer field with dynamic objects, it is better to add the field as a child node to this object so that it can correctly affect grass or water geometry.

On the Field tab of the Nodes panel, the following parameters of the spacer field can be adjusted:

Setting Form of Spacer

Setting Bit Masks

Setting Size and Attenuation

Size	Size of the spacer field along the axes in units. If the Ellipse option is unchecked, this is the size of the spacer field box along the axes. If the Ellipse option is checked, these are the ellipse radius values along the axes.
Atten	An attenuation factor indicating how much geometry is cut off gradually starting from the center of the spacer field. By the minimum value of 0, all geometry inside the field spacer will be rendered. The higher the value, the less geometry will be rendered inside the spacer field. Atten = 5 Atten = 15