The most noteworthy is probably world machine. There are other software out there that is specifically designed to generate terrain only. We don’t have this problem with a noise tool like A.N.T landscape. Just make sure you keep track of the license terms for the map data since this data comes from third-party providers. You can check it out here:Įxternal content: Blender GIS, github page There is also an add-on called Blender GIS that is free. Related content: Blender OpenStreetMap importer add-on: Never model New York again

If you are more interested in getting real world terrain data, you can check out my Blender-OSM review here: You can also generate and distribute things such as trees and rocks to fill your landscape quickly. The settings in Mirage is a bit easier to understand and is therefore easier to use. It uses different procedural noises to generate landscapes.Īnother tool with some more features and ease of use is Mirage. What is A.N.T Landscape and what are some alternatives?Ī.N.T stands for another noise tool. The list will filter and you can enable the add-on by clicking the checkbox left of the add-on name. Find the add-on section and search for “landscape”. If you got the official build of Blender or one of the experimental ones, A.N.T Landscape comes bundled by default. Related content: How to create realistic 3D trees with the sapling add-on and Blender How to install A.N.T Landscape Let’s dive deeper into A.N.T Landscape for Blender. But there is a lot more of customizations to explore here than just a preset and a random seed value. This is the quickest way to get a good-looking landscape going in minutes or even seconds. Pick the one that is the closest matched to your needs, then go to the noise settings section and start clicking through the “random seed” until you find what you like. Press F9 for the operator panel and find the preset drop-down at the top. To use A.N.T Landscape in Blender once we enabled it, press “Shift+A”, go to mesh and select landscape. It can help us generate terrain for our scenes way quicker than it would be to model terrain by hand. This is when the A.N.T Landscape add-on can become handy.

I also realize that if I do, I suddenly have several more days or weeks ahead of me before I finish the rest of the scene in Blender. It has happened to me more than once that I start a scene, then with I'm about 80% through with my main subject I realize that I want to put it into a scene.

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