Export to Unreal

Every workflow ends in an engine-ready asset. Natsura was built with Unreal in mind from the start, with a dedicated path to UE5 Nanite foliage, skeletal mesh assemblies, and tools that run live in-engine.

Create Nanite foliage

Natsura was built with Unreal in mind from the start, and it offers a dedicated workflow to create UE5 Nanite foliage and Nanite skeletal mesh assemblies for trees.

Nanite Assemblies

Exporting UE5 Nanite foliage assets from Houdini to Unreal Engine 5

Create Nanite Assemblies

Export rigged trees built for Nanite; import and animate immediately in your Unreal Engine 5 scenes.

Nanite-ready trees rendered in Unreal Engine 5

Run tools in-engine

Create tools that run live inside Unreal using Houdini Engine, as seen in Project Elderwood, for in-engine foliage authoring.

Houdini Engine foliage tools running live in Unreal Engine

Create living worlds

Send libraries of trees or entire ecosystems to Unreal in a few clicks using the Unreal Wizard for fast environment art iteration.

Nanite pine forest scene in Unreal Engine 5

Wind that travels with the tree

Every tree that comes out of a Simulate is rigged by default. The Wind Config node assigns layered wind to parts of the tree, and the setup is carried into Unreal via wind.json alongside the USD export.

Wind for Unreal

Wind-ready Nanite pine forest in Unreal Engine 5

Docs: Export to Unreal in depth

The features above are the highlights. The docs walk through the whole workflow, concept by concept.

Docs: Take Your Tree to Unreal

Foliage & Instancing

Leaves, canopies, and the instanced assemblies that build them, placed by trait and posed without breaking instancing.

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