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Verdant is an editable woodland scene and short film built in Feather Engine to showcase terrain, foliage and atmospheric lighting. You can watch its six-shot presentation, then open the project to adjust the landscape and camera shots. Its 24 fps film capture was rendered offline, so it does not show the engine’s real-time frame rate or establish performance on your computer.
What Verdant demonstrates
The official project page describes Verdant as “A woodland study. A new look at the world you can build.” It presents both a finished visual sequence and a scene intended for people to open and change. The film’s trees, camera moves and light beams were rendered in Feather Engine. See the official Verdant project page.
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The design gives the forest floor as much attention as the canopy. Rocky clearings and layered outcrops break up the terrain; ferns, moss, fallen wood and leaf litter add detail at ground level. Trees vary in bark and branching form and are arranged in groves with open space between them. Grass follows the ground, responds to wind and uses distance-based detail, favoring nearer blades.
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How to open and edit the scene
The official page’s described workflow uses an engine build with the new Verdant woodland renderer. You can import the visual template package from the ZIP or find Verdant in the engine Store. Interface labels and availability may vary with the build, and the project page does not establish that every build or package version is identical.
- Open the project. Use an engine build with the Verdant woodland renderer, then import the visual template package from the ZIP or locate Verdant in the Store.
- Preview the film. Press
Playto watch the sequence. PressRto restart it; the creator also saysStopreturns to editing. - Adjust a camera shot. Open
Cinematicand edit one of the six named shots. The project page invites users to change the shots and tell a different story. - Change the landscape. Open
Foliageto work on the landscape. The page specifically suggests moving the sun, reshaping terrain or changing trees. - Add a soundtrack and share. The official page describes adding a soundtrack and sharing a version after editing.
Why foliage and camera placement work together
The six editable shots are composed around one landscape, so changes to trees and terrain can affect what a camera sees. In a creator account, Mario JGT says the team checked camera corridors against wood geometry as well as ground and rock bounds: branches can extend beyond a trunk’s footprint, and the closing views were moved into clear space. These are details of Verdant’s production, not a universal engine requirement. Read the creator’s Verdant article.
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For someone modifying the scene, the practical implication is to review each shot after changing vegetation or terrain. A path that looks clear from above may still intersect a branch or lose its intended framing from the camera’s viewpoint.
What the video’s specifications do—and do not—tell you
The official page lists the film as 48 seconds, 1920 × 1080, 24 fps and captured in Feather Engine at Epic quality. Those are specifications for this offline development preview, not a real-time frame-rate result. The page states: “This is a development preview captured offline, not a real-time frame-rate benchmark.” The creator also reports offline capture at 1920 × 1080 and 24 fps.
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Do not use those figures to infer interactive frame rate, hardware requirements or how the scene will perform on another system. The sources provide no independently published benchmark or measured real-time performance result.
Downloads, asset licensing and audio
The official project page says the download contains the editable scene and visual assets without generated audio. It identifies landscape scans and models as CC0 and the scene code as covered by the included MIT license; asset credits are included in the template. These terms apply to the specified asset categories, not automatically to every part of the project.
The original music and woodland ambience used in the film were generated with Dev MCP’s ElevenLabs tools. Audio reuse is subject to the provider’s separate terms, rather than being covered by the scene-code MIT license or the stated CC0 terms for scans and models. The creator reports that the package version he describes embeds 13 visual assets and no audio; that count is specific to his account of that package, not a guarantee for later downloads.
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Feather Engine’s development status
Feather Engine describes itself as a visual-first 3D game engine with terrain, vegetation and cinematic tools, plus Blueprints or FeatherScript and browser and desktop workflows. Its repository warns that the engine is experimental and under active development, and that APIs and project format may change before a stable release. The repository README lists Node.js 20 or newer and a modern browser with WebGL 2 support for the web editor setup; desktop editing has additional native-tooling requirements. Check the Feather Engine repository for current setup guidance before installing or relying on a particular project format.
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