Grow kinds · meshpup

The kinds you can grow, with their sliders: rocks on lava, roots on a flat material, and Christmas Lights as worked examples.

The Grow box gives every kind the same first controls: Size, Amount, Where, Grows on and Look. Under them, each kind adds sliders of its own. Version 1.5.1 added many of them: every kind has more now, 134 new ones in all. Most percent sliders start at 100 %, which is the kind’s approved look; counts are whole numbers; degrees are angles.

The browser’s Grow entry holds 20 kinds. This page walks through three of them in detail; the table at the end counts the sliders on every kind.

Rocks, on Lava (pure)

Paint the egg with Lava (pure) from the Rock and lava category, add Rocks, and the rocks stand on a glowing base, with the lava showing in the gaps. Rocks grow as separate stones: Amount counts stones (the approved look is 10, from 4 to 40), and Size scales each stone. Where limits them to the top or bottom half.

An egg painted with Lava (pure), covered in grown rocks with glowing lava between them. — Rocks on Lava (pure).

The Rocks settings: Size, Amount, Crack, Overhang, Colour variation, Facets, Dome, Shoulder, Hue range, Shade range, Grows on, Where, Look and Triangles. — The Rocks settings.

Slider	Starts at	Range
Crack	100 %	0 % to 300 %
Overhang	100 %	0 % to 250 %
Colour variation	50 %	0 % to 100 %
Facets	14	6 to 14
Dome	100 %	0 % to 250 %
Shoulder	55 %	20 % to 85 %
Hue range	24°	0° to 90°
Shade range	20 %	0 % to 60 %

Roots, on a flat material

Paint the part with a flat material, such as Plain Sand, then add Roots. For roots, Size is the thickness of the root, and Amount counts where they start (the approved look is 3, from 1 to 4).

An egg painted with Plain Sand with brown roots wrapped around it. — Roots on Plain Sand.

The Roots settings: Size, Amount, Reach, Branch length, Branches, Branch angle, Curl, Taper, Wave, Climb, Hug, Knots, Wave length, Top branches, Grows on, Where, Look and Triangles. — The Roots settings.

Slider	Starts at	Range
Reach	100 %	30 % to 110 %
Branch length	100 %	25 % to 150 %
Branches	2	0 to 4
Branch angle	100 %	50 % to 170 %
Curl	100 %	0 % to 200 %
Taper	100 %	0 % to 200 %
Wave	100 %	0 % to 200 %
Climb	100 %	30 % to 130 %
Hug	100 %	0 % to 200 %
Knots	100 %	0 % to 400 %
Wave length	100 %	30 % to 250 %
Top branches	1	0 to 3

Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights hang as strings of bulbs. Amount counts the levels of string (4 is the approved look, from 2 to 6), and Size scales the pieces.

The Christmas Lights settings: Size, Amount, Bulbs per level, Sag, Stagger, Bulb tilt, Wire thickness, Bulb fatness, Bulb spacing, Colour pattern, Grows on, Where, Look and Triangles. — The Christmas Lights settings.

Slider	Starts at	Range
Bulbs per level	4	3 to 8
Sag	100 %	0 % to 250 %
Stagger	50 %	0 % to 50 %
Bulb tilt	25°	0° to 50°
Wire thickness	100 %	50 % to 188 %
Bulb fatness	100 %	60 % to 140 %
Bulb spacing	5	1 to 5
Colour pattern	2	0 to 4

All twenty kinds

Kind	Sliders
Craters	6
Pumpkin	8
Gem	4
Beehive	7
Rocks	8
Crystals	14
Shards	14
Roots	12
Mushrooms	15
Flower 1	14
Flower 2	14
Flower 3	14
Flower 4	23
Alien Tentacles	15
Octopus	15
Sprout	18
Sprout Leaves	12
Islands	7
Christmas Lights	8
Snow	5

Craters, Pumpkin, Gem and Beehive shape the part’s own surface, so they only work while the part’s Shape is Off or Bumps: see Shape.