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6000.3.8 or later
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Move, rotate and scatter props with real physics, paint prefabs onto any surface, and give meshes colliders that actually fit. Editor only, full undo.

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About this asset

Dressing a level by hand is slow in small, annoying ways. A crate floats a few centimetres off the floor. A barrel sinks into a ramp. Two rocks sit inside each other and nobody notices until a playtest. Placement Forge fixes that by letting the objects collide while you place them.

Physics Move and Rotate

Same handles as Unity's Move and Rotate tools, but the object bumps into things. Push a crate into a wall and it stops there, with a readout showing how far the handle ran ahead. Drag the object itself and it slides along the ground. Hold Space and it drops under gravity; let go and it stays exactly where it is. Rotating a group turns everything around one pivot without anything cutting through a wall.

Arrange and Scatter

Hold Space to push a group of props together until they touch, or spread them apart. Fix overlaps, level a group onto one height, and line things up in rows, grids and rings based on their real size. Array can drop copies into a pile and let physics settle them. Scatter blows a stack apart, heaps loose props into a pile, or nudges a row so it stops looking placed. Every effect plays out in the Scene view, and Esc puts everything back.

Prefab painting

A brush for palettes of prefabs, with spacing, density, slope and height limits, random rotation and scale, and erase, swap and vary modes. Objects sit on the surface whatever their pivot, and "Settle after stroke" drops painted rocks with physics so they rest on the ground instead of hovering over it.

Colliders that fit

Select some meshes and press Generate. Simple shapes get a box, sphere, capsule or cylinder. Everything else gets a collider built from the mesh itself, and tables and arches keep the space under them. Analyse tells you what each object will get and why before anything changes. You can bake colliders straight onto prefab assets, and they are ordinary Unity colliders with no runtime code.

Also included

  • Drag a prefab in from the Project window and it lands sitting on the surface.
  • Select everything made from the same prefab, of a similar size, or resting on the same floor.
  • Audit a scene for duplicates, floating props, strays, missing scripts and empty groups, then fix them.

Your scene's physics is never touched

The simulation runs in a separate hidden scene built from copies of your objects. Only the final positions are written back, so your Rigidbodies stay asleep and your physics settings stay as they are. Objects without colliders still collide. Every action is one undo step, and a recompile or pressing Play in the middle of a drag puts everything back cleanly, including with Domain Reload turned off.

A demo scene, a Quick Start PDF, a full manual, an FAQ and a scripting reference are included. Questions or bugs: [email protected].

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Technical details

Tools (keys can be changed in Edit > Shortcuts)

  • Physics Move (U), Physics Rotate (I), Arrange (O), Scatter (J), Paint (Shift+X), Select (K)
  • Drop to create, Colliders, Clean and Selection commands in the Placement Forge window

Colliders

  • Auto plus 10 shapes: Match mesh, Box, Oriented box, Sphere, Capsule, Cylinder, Convex mesh, Exact mesh, Compound boxes, Decomposed
  • Performance / Balanced / Precise quality
  • Bake onto prefab assets from the Project window

Requirements and compatibility

  • Unity 2022.3 LTS or newer, including Unity 6
  • Editor only. Nothing runs in your build; the optional marker components have no Update and can be stripped with one menu command.
  • Works with Built-in, URP and HDRP. The included demo materials are URP; use Tools > Placement Forge > Help > Create Demo Scene to build the demo for Built-in or HDRP.
  • Works with Domain Reload disabled (Enter Play Mode settings)
  • 3D only. The tools work in Edit mode, not Play mode.

Package contents

  • C# source for everything, in the PlacementForge and PlacementForge.Editors namespaces, with XML documentation
  • Demo scene with example prefabs and a palette
  • Documentation: Quick Start (PDF), Manual, FAQ, Scripting reference, Changelog

No third-party code, fonts or assets are included.

Compatibility

Render pipelines supported in each Unity version
Unity version Built-in URP HDRP
6000.3.8f1 Compatible Compatible Compatible

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