Edit Mode

Provides specialized selection and manipulation tools for instances.

Flora provides a specialized editor context for working with instances—allowing you to select, move, rotate, and delete instances in both containers and terrain trees. This is especially useful in scenarios where instances do not have associated GameObjects.

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Instance Editing Features

With the editor context active, you can use Unity’s built-in transform tools to:

• Select individual instances (e.g. trees or container instances)

• Move and rotate instances directly in the Scene View

• Delete instances

This functionality is available as long as:

• Flora is enabled on the terrain, and

• The edit context is active

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Activating the Context

To activate Flora's instance editing mode:

1. Look for the overlay toggle above the Scene View toolbar.

2. Click the icon with three stacked dots to enable the context.

Note: If your shaders are not properly configured for instanced selection, picking may not work correctly. The "ScenePickingPass" must have the following pragmas:

#pragma target 4.5
#pragma multi_compile _ DOTS_INSTANCING_ON

Additionally ensure the fragment shader returns unity_SelectionID and not _SelectionID .