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Randomizing terrain with Houdini to shape player goals in Pacific Drive

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The tiny team making the spooky survival sedan driving game Pacific Drive explains how their procedural terrain tech supercharged the game's artist and level designers.

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GeoGen – Procedural Terrain and Planet Generator

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GameFromScratch.com GeoGen – Procedural Terrain and Planet Generator Today we are checking out GeoGen, an application for generating terrain/landscapes as well as planets procedurally, from JangaFX, the creators of EmberGen and the free Game Texture Viewer.

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TerraBrush C# Based Terrain Add-On For Godot

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GameFromScratch.com TerraBrush C# Based Terrain Add-On For Godot One of the major missing features of the Godot game engine compared to it’s peers is the complete lack of a Terrain system. Today we are looking at TerraBrush, a heightmap based terrain system for Godot 4.x

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Creating Terrain in Godot Tutorial

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Creating Terrain in Godot Tutorial We recently discussed using the Godot Game Engine for AAA games, specifically areas it needs to improve and one of the most obvious is in terrain support. Out of the box the Godot game engine has no support for creating terrain.

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Atlas Terrain Editor for Unity

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GameFromScratch.com Atlas Terrain Editor for Unity Currently part of the 30 for $30 Unity Mega Bundle Atlas Terrain is an extension for the Unity terrain system that gives you several new abilities. At it’s core it enables you to use multiple terrain height maps like prefabs, quickly stamping out your terrain.

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Terrain3D – A New Terrain Engine for Godot

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GameFromScratch.com Terrain3D – A New Terrain Engine for Godot Terrain3D was just released, a free and open source terrain engine for the Godot game engine. on of the most requested missing features is a system for creating and editing terrain. With the recent release of Godot 4 (and Godot 4.1)

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Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

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This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. What Sebastian Lague did to work-around it when generating new terrain chunks on runtime is to use multithreading. Before we start. Freezing is simply annoying and kills the flow.

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