Is this great tool the right tool for me

[Tbernard]

I was building my world with voxel plugin and you can create pretty much whatever you want with it. I have a world that is exactly what I want. But i’m not making a voxel game and the overhead is high. Just super easy to generate your terrain. I’ve decided I need height maps for ue5 landscape, so this program is perfect.

I am not seeing a whole lot of comples landscapes however. Not on youtube or anywhere else.

I basically need to create a 32km impact crater. with a few different levels terrain as you make your way from the outside to the inside lowest point that will become a small sea with islands.

I want to buy the pro version so I can export tiles to ue5.

Are there resources to help me make a more complex landscape, is it even possible with world machine?

[damaggio]

There are many good Tutorials on Youtube, including from users from this Forum, anything you need to learn is there and the helpful example files within worldmachine , from simple set ups to complicated ones for advanced level.

[HYLK]

@Tbernard

I am not seeing a whole lot of comples landscapes however. Not on youtube or anywhere else.

I suggest you take a look at the Minecraft terraforming community, as a lot of them use World Machine to create very exquisite and complex terrains, with multiple biomes. Check out @Consue_IdeaGen (@Consue) on twitter for example. Her is a render of one of her many maps:

As for creating a basic crater, here is an example of an old one of mine:

You could easily create one that’s 32 Km in size and create areas within. For example, this crater has three “layers”. The bottom, the slope with some rock and a lot of sediment, and the cliff edge. You could add an arbitrary number of transition areas, to your liking. It would be a multi-biome map, just placed within a crater.

[Tbernard]

Thanks for your reply,
I still have more of your vids to watch.

It looks like if I use a series of circle shapes smaller and smaller adding them in each time and then invert the whole batch I can achieve what I’m looking for. I only have the free version right now so it looks like i can’t play with any of the falloff and height settings of the shape, they are all greyed out on my screen so I can’t confirm that this kind of nesting actually works, but it looks like it will. I’m pretty impressed having played with it a bit more. EDIT I just opened the file again to play with and I can now adjust those settings. Cool.

[Tbernard]

Yep, I still don’t know jack and I was able to put something close to what I want together in a couple of hours. This is 15km map, I will have to upgrade next week so I can get the higher res and tiled output.

[Tbernard]