The Plants menu allows you to add all sorts of plants to your LiveCube. Some plants are included with the general content that comes with LumenRT, but now you can add plants that can be made and /or exported from The Plant Factory and other sources.

This is topically Menu Bar > Add plant

The Add Plant icon allows you to select and add single or multiple copies of a plant object to your scenes.

When you choose one of the object icons, a browser displays the objects available to add.

To access this library there are four option. With help of those you can modify your scene with vegetation.

The options are as follows:

Setting	Description
Add Object	It allows you to place a plant from the plant library. From the Type section you can choose the placement mode of the plant. Once a selection has been made from the browser, the object displays in a small window. The two icons to the left are for placing the single object in the scene or painting a group of objects. Objects can be placed individually or placed as random single instances from a collection. Toggling the circular Add Items Button will toggle placement from a single instance to a random selection. Press <Esc> to end adding objects. Otherwise, another copy of that object appears for you to add another copy of that object. Clicking the ellipse icon opens a browser for you to select another object. Select the object and the Selection menu icons display to manipulate the selected plant moving it around, resizing. Press <Esc> to release the object.
Paint Instances	Paint Instance Placement Tool - Objects are painted where you want them to appear with a brush using the brush settings. Size - Sets the application area of the brush. Flow - Sets the emitter intensity Softness - Sets the amount of feathering at the edge of the brush. Erase Brush, Erase Airbrush - If selected, enables the eraser brush which removes objects from the scene. Base Scale - Sets the scale of the object being painted. Scale Variation - Sets the amount of scale variance in the object population.
Populate Along a Spline	This tool allows the placement of plants along a spline curve. Mode - This indicates the method for populating plants along the spline curve. From the right side drop-down list you can select 4 types of Mode, such as Fixed Distance, Fixed number of instances, Mixed Mode, Density Mode. Distance - You can control the distance between two objects by adjusting the slider. You can adjust the Parameter between two objects. The numeric value for the given mode.
Populate Inside an Area	This tool allows you to populate inside an given area. Mode: you can select Random or Regular mode. Distance: You can control the distance between two objects by adjusting the slider.