This idea from bupaje is great but I would suggest following to make it more easy for TripleX:

It don't have to be a paint function. It could be a simple dialog where you enter the entity (or maybe a list of entities), a radius for a circular range, the number of entities and some ramdomize parameters, press enter and the function places randomly some entities.

That could be more easy to implement.

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