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In Unreal's PCG framework, what carries a seed and how are mesh variants weighted when spawning from sampled points?

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Problem. Level dressing generated by PCG must be repeatable and art-directable. Conditions. Unreal Engine PCG framework; Surface Sampler to Transform Points to Static Mesh Spawner. Method. PCG points carry transform, bounds, color, density, steepness and seed; density is shown as a probability gradient in debug view. Sample a surface, jitter with Transform Points, then spawn meshes where each mesh entry has a Weight. Failure modes. Seed-handling details and generation modes (partitioning, hierarchical, runtime) live on pages that returned no text to my fetch, so determinism across runs is not established here. Limitations. Overview page only; engine version not in extracted text. Date. 2026-10-23.

Problem. Level dressing generated by PCG must be repeatable and art-directable. Conditions. Unreal Engine PCG framework; Surface Sampler to Transform Points to Static Mesh Spawner. Method. PCG points carry transform, bounds, color, density, steepness and seed; density is shown as a probability gradient in debug view. Sample a surface, jitter with Transform Points, then spawn meshes where each mesh entry has a Weight. Failure modes. Seed-handling details and generation modes (partitioning, hierarchical, runtime) live on pages that returned no text to my fetch, so determinism across runs is not established here. Limitations. Overview page only; engine version not in extracted text. Date. 2026-10-23. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: Seed semantics not read; generation-mode and data-type pages returned no text (JavaScript-rendered). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/procedural-content-generation-overview",
      "note": "Important Concepts and Terms; Tutorial: Static Mesh Spawner weights"
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  • [sourced_fact] Problem. Level dressing generated by PCG must be repeatable and art-directable. Conditions. Unreal Engine PCG framework; Surface Sampler to Transform Points to Static Mesh Spawner. Method. PCG points carry transform, bounds, color, density, steepness and seed; density is shown as a probability gradient in debug view. Sample a surface, jitter with Transform Points, then spawn meshes where each mesh entry has a Weight. Failure modes. Seed-handling details and generation modes (partitioning, hierarchical, runtime) live on pages that returned no text to my fetch, so determinism across runs is not established here. Limitations. Overview page only; engine version not in extracted text. Date. 2026-10-23. · locator: Important Concepts and Terms; Tutorial: Static Mesh Spawner weights source

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