Climate based Terrain generation is a procedural terrain generation tool for Unreal Engine 4. It allows you to create complex terrains based on climate data. Temperature, humidity and preciptation influence the generation of the terrain and help you define natural looking biomes for large scale terrains. Even after everything is set, you can easily go back to any settings, tweak the settings and watch the magic happen. Climate based Terrain generation allows YOU to iterate over complex large scale landscapes within minutes. Check down below what Climate based Terrain generation can add to your project
Creating complex terrains for your 3D project can be tedious work, especially when you need more than one biome
This tool takes away most of the tediousness, watch the video to see why it is so awesome
Quickly and easily create complex layerd terrain to use as a perfect base
Use temperature, humidity and precipitation to influence the effect of the erosion and define biomes
Complex erosion, based on Houdini 16's terrain erosion, that takes all climate data in consideration
Seamlessley works with Unreal's Landscape tools and works beautifully with landscape materials and procedural folliage
Currently the tool is not available to download, this will probably change in the future.
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If you're still not convinded, you might want to know more about the inner workings
Noises, shapes and effects can be stacked (theoretically) limetless and in any order to get the terrain suited for your project
Climate data can be painted on the terrain to be influence the effects of the erosion and later to define biomes
The RGB colors are used to define the climate data. Red for temperature. Green for humidity.
The erosion is mainly based on Houdini's erosion but alterd to take the climate data into account
The intensity set in the erosion is taken as avarage value. Colors above 0.5 intensity strengthen the effect, everything below weakens the effect
The layers in the final result can easily be used with Unreals landscape materials and procedural folliage
Now that you're convinced this is the right tool for you, let's start learning how to use it!
Watch the tutorial video to see all the steps on how to create a similar terrain to what you saw in the trailer
To use this tool, you need to have Houdini and Houdini Engine for Unreal Engine 4 installed. You can find them here . Due to licensing limitations, only Houdini Indie and higher allow this tool to run in Unreal Engine 4
To make sure everything will work, checkout this check list
To create the ideal terrain for your UE4 project
only four steps are required
Currently it's not possible to get in touch since we're still working on this and some other things