Layout, displacement plugin.
The plugin operates on geometry of one object. It is able to find different parts of the object - clones of the same model. It works perfect with RandomCloner. It rotates the clones directly into your camera (or other object) position. It may be very useful for low-poly animation or backgrounds with a great deal of simple objects (trees) that should be visible only from one side.

You can move your camera (object) wherever you need and geometry will follow your changes.

Sometimes you may need to create background terrain with a forest. The action would be taken in the centre of terrain. Foreground you can model high resolution but there is no need to use millions of polygons for the background. You can create one or few poly trees with photo textures, and clone them on the terrain. Unfortunately some of your trees were placed not viewable side to camera. You can rotate manually a great deal of trees but what if you need to place a camera somewhere else on the terrain? You would have to adjust trees rotation again. The better idea is to add Face2Camera to trees object! You would be able to place your camera wherever you need and trees would be rotated correctly to it. If you need to rotate trees into different direction than your camera (for instance into light direction for proper shadow generation) there is no problem.

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