World Machine (Heightmap-Gen)
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Just want to share: I ran over World Machine. It's free (for non commercial, commercial goes for $40) and fun to play with. Heightmap generation works somewhat like the renderpipeline in XSI. Have fun Jake |
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That looks very good :D I think I'll give it a whirl some day. |
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Yup, very good. I bought it a few years ago,... makes some pretty awesome heightmaps, especially the erosion effects. |
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The pictures they have posted do look really great. How would you say it compares with Terragen or Mojo World? |
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WorldMachine has only terrain, no water - but the real-time fly-mode is cool and fast! Terragen has water but no plants. MojoWorld can at least import models. And don't forget Vue D'Espirit if you're after nice world generators: http://www.e-onsoftware.com/ |
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worldmachine does not really compete with terragen, it works with it. I use WM to create highly detailed heightmaps with special masks for erosion or whatever, and then take all that back into terragen or 3ds Max for rendering |
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Thanks Mustang and Pongo. World Machine sounds interesting enough that I think I'll download it and give it a whirl. (I'm trying to cut down on the amount of programs I download and install for the sake of my operating system :) ) |