Landscape

Overview

Landscape Layers provide the ability to add controlled procedural landscapes quickly to your terrain. Depending on the landscape type they offer various forms of customization.

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Available Landscape Layers

At the moment the following Landscape Layers types are available. Future updates might include new types, if you require specific shapes let us know on the discord server.

Alpine

A large alpine landscape with valleys and peaks.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Property	Description
Valleys	Controls the width of the valleys and subsequently shrinks peaks on higher values.

Canyon

A large scale canyon structure with options for riverbed and valley customization. Design wise it is best adjusted from the bottom up, so river, river bank, terraces and mountain as the last step.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Shape

Property	Description
Inner/Outer Scale	Flattens either the right or left side of the rivers surrounding mountains.

Rivers

Property	Description
River Range	Controls the width of the river.
River Depth	Controls the depth of the river.

Bank

Property	Description
Bank Range	Controls the width of the bank area.
Bank Height	Adjusts the height of the bank area.
Bank Curvature	Controls the curvature of the river bank.

Terrace

Property	Description
Layers Range	Controls the width of the terrace area.
Layers Height	Scales the height of the terrace area.
Layers	How many terraces will be formed in the terrace area.
Random Widths	Randomizes the width of the terraces.
Terrace Slant	Shifts the angles of the terraces.
Wall Angle	Shifts the angle of the terrace walls.

Mountain

Property	Description
Mountain Height	Sets the height of the mountain.
Mountain Steepness	Adjusts the slope of the mountain.

Cliff

A single cliff with options for steepness and additional noise.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Property	Description
Steepness	Controls the steepness of the cliff.
Distortion	Adds distortion to the cliff.
Distortion Scale	Adjusts the scale of the noise used for distortion.
Noise	Adds additional noise in the lower and upper flat areas.
Noise Scale	Scales the additional noise.

Cracks

A cracked surface with various controls for crack customization.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Property	Description
Depth	Controls the height of the cracks.
Width	Controls the width of the cracks.
Smoothness	Angles the cracks into the cells.
Protect Width	Creates a flat gap on top of the smoothed area is enabled. If disabled the smoothing will start right in the center of the cracks.
Center Shift	Offsets the center of the cells upwards or downwards.
Center Mode	Controls the way in which the center is shifted.
Random Height	Randomizes the height of the cells.

Crater

A single crater with control over falloff curve, depth and rim details.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Crater

Property	Description
Radius	The radius of the crater.
Depth	Adjusts the depth of the crater.
Inner Falloff	Smooths the inside falloff of the crater.
Height	Adjusts the rim height.
Outer Falloff	Smooths the outside falloff of the crater.

Noise

Property	Description
Additive Noise	Adds additional noise to the terrain.
Distortion	Distorts the crater.
Scale	Scales the noise used for additive noise and distortion.

Crater Field

Several scattered craters, that can be randomized, scaled and distorted.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Property	Description
Density	Controls the density of craters over the terrain.
Rim Height	Adjusts the rim height of the craters.
Crater Falloff	Adjusts the outer falloff of the craters.
Crater Depth	Controls the depth of the craters.
Size	Controls the min and max size of possible craters.
Size Distribution	Adjusts the amount of small vs large craters (references the Size parameters).
Smaller Size Reduction	Reduces the amount of smaller craters to create a more realistic distribution.

Dunes

A large scale desert with options for distortion and dune shaping.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Property	Description
Edge Smoothness	Smooths out the dune edges.
Distortion	Distorts the dunes.
Distortion Scale	The scale of the distortion noise.

Furrows

A pattern of parallel ditches, that can be used for hills or mountain chains.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Property	Description
Irregularity	Lower values will create a parallel noise, higher values a more randomized, less repetitive pattern.

Island

Creates a highly adjustable island shape with a surrounding ocean. Similar to the canyon it operates in a bottom up logic, meaning beach comes first, followed by forest and then mountain. So adjusting it in a bottom up way is advised.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameter

Island

Property	Description
Island Size	Adjusts the size of the island.
Terrain Scale	Scales the features of the terrain (e.g. mountains).

Ocean

Property	Description
Ocean Noise	Adds additional cell shaped noise to the ocean area.
Ocean Depth	Controls the depth of the ocean.

Beach

Property	Description
Beach Range	Adjusts the size of the beach area.
Beach Height	Changes the height scale of the beach.

Forrest

Property	Description
Forest Range	Adjusts the size of the forest area.
Forest Height	Changes the height scale of the forest.

Mountain

Property	Description
Mountain Height	Adjusts the height of the mountain.

Mountain 1

A simple mountain shape with one singular peak.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameter

Property	Description
Roughness	Adds smaller scale noise into the mix, leading to a rougher result.
Peaks	Increases the strength of sharp peaks.

Mountain 2

A simple singular mountain shape, that offers multiple differing styles of mountain compared to Mountain 1.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Property	Description
Style	Swaps between several different styles of mountain shapes.
Scale	Scales the base noise used for the mountain.
Roughness	Scales the detail noise used for the mountain, resulting in a rougher result.

Noise

Offers a full scale noise generator with various advanced noise types, fractal options like fbm and domain warping.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Since the parameters of the noise is exactly equal for the noise landscape layer, filters and distributions we have compiled them in a clean list in this article.

Single Crack

A singular crack, with several customization options.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Crack

Property	Description
Depth	Controls the depth of the crack.
Length	Adjusts the length of the crack.
Width	Adjusts the width of the crack.
Shrink	Shrinks the ends of the crack to create a pointier result.
Smoothness	Smooths the vertical edge of the crack.

Noise

Property	Description
Inside Noise	Adds noise on the bottom of the crack.
Outside Noise	Adds noise outside of the crack.
Small Strength	Applies a small uv scaled noise distortion to the shape.
Large Strength	Applies a large uv scaled noise distortion to the shape.
Noise Scale	Controls the scale of the noises.

Iterations

Property	Description
Amount	Spawns several cracks.
Random Rotation	Randomizes the rotation for each crack.
Random Width	Randomizes the width for each crack.
Random Length	Randomizes the length for each crack.

Volcano

A cone like volcano with a crater at the top.

Result

base shape

with materials

final terrain

Parameters

Volcano

Property	Description
Mountain Radius	Adjusts the volcanos size.
Mountain Falloff	Controls the slope of the volcano.
Roughness	Increases the noisiness of the volcano.
Peaks	Extrapolates the height, creating more peaks.
Outside Noise	Adds additive noise.
Noise Scale	Scale the outside noise.

Crater

Property	Description
Crater Radius	Controls the size of the crater.
Crater Depth	Controls the depth of the crater.
Crater Falloff	Controls the slope of the crater.
Micro Distortion	Adds distortion to the crater.
Inside Noise	Scales the distortion noise.