Turn empty surfaces into living, detailed environments directly in the Daz Studio viewport. C66 Ecology Painter is an interactive scene-population tool for Daz Studio 6. Paint trees across terrain, scatter rocks and litter, add ivy to architecture, hang vines beneath floating islands, populate branches with birds, or distribute props throughout a scene with natural variation.

Select one or more target objects, choose the material zones you want to use, load an Ecology Set, and paint directly onto the visible surface. Ecology Painter handles placement, scaling, rotation, surface alignment, opacity masks, collision spacing, and efficient instancing while you concentrate on the final look.

Ecology Painter offers three interactive modes:

• Paint Mode places assets onto selected surfaces.
• Remove Mode removes painted items beneath the cursor.
• Edit Mode lets you detach an individual painted instance, adjust it with Daz Studio’s standard manipulators, and return it to the instance group.
• Choose between expressive 3D tool cursors and compact 2D precision cursors.

Each layer can use its own placement method:

• Y-Up for trees, rocks, buildings, litter, and ordinary ground placement.
• Follow Normal for moss, ivy, decorations, and objects placed on curved or vertical surfaces.
• Y-Down for hanging vines and objects designed to grow downward.
• The optional Falling mode places objects above the painted surface using a randomized height. Full 360-degree rotation can create convincing falling debris, airborne objects, or surreal scenes.

A per-layer Sink In control can move assets into or away from the painted surface for better contact and artistic adjustment.

Complex models often contain many material zones. Ecology Painter integrates with Daz Studio’s Surface Selection Tool so you can choose paintable areas directly in the viewport.

Activate Surface Select, click the desired surfaces, and the material-zone list updates automatically. The selected target objects are protected during this process, helping prevent accidental clicks from replacing your carefully prepared selection.

Opacity-mapped surfaces are recognized, allowing painting to follow the visible portions of supported materials instead of filling transparent holes. Tiled opacity maps are identified in the material list when their UV tiling prevents reliable opacity sampling.

Select one layer to paint only with that asset, or use all active layers according to their probability values.

Painting Density can be increased for richer population, while individual size ranges can be set for size randomization.

Enable Avoid Object Collisions when painting objects that should not overlap. Ecology Painter uses the placed object’s transformed bounds and adds the chosen minimum spacing. A zero-distance setting allows objects to sit close together while still avoiding overlap. Select to avoid collisions with all painted layer or just the current painting layer. This makes it possible to paint add larger trees first and then small flowers without the tree layer unnecessarily blocking tree placement.

Follow Normal and Falling placements use full three-dimensional collision checks, allowing reliable placement across figures, walls, curved objects, and other non-horizontal surfaces.

Painted assets are organized into Daz Studio instance groups, making it practical to populate large areas without duplicating the full geometry of every prop.

Master objects are managed automatically and parked safely below the scene. Unused masters are removed when changing sets, helping reduce unnecessary memory use.

Painting results are stored beneath their target object, which allows a painted object to be moved around and the painted layers follows as they are parented.

The included Ecology Painter Editor lets you create and maintain your own Ecology Sets. Build layers from Daz Studio assets, configure their probabilities and placement settings, and save reusable sets to any supported content library.

Editor features include:

• Create and edit Ecology Sets
• Import selected assets from Smart Content or the Content Library
• Import sets from HedgeMaker, Alienator, Traffic Patterns and UltraScenery 1 & 2
• Merge layers from existing Ecology sets into new sets.

Ecology Painter can be used for:

• Forests and orchards
• Grass, flowers, mushrooms, and ground cover
• Moss and ivy on buildings
• Hanging vines beneath rocks and structures
• Stones, branches, bones, and leaf litter
• Bottles, cups, rubbish, and road debris
• Cars and roadside objects
• Birds and ornaments on trees
• Buildings placed along roads
• Falling objects and airborne effects
• Any suitable prop added to a custom Ecology Set

Ecology Painter comes with an extensive 36 page manual to guide you through the product to learn how to maximize your productivity. Whether you need a vast natural environment or a few carefully scattered details, C66 Ecology Painter provides a fast, visual way to build richer Daz Studio scenes.