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Hey people

I wanted to make a open-world (yeah yeah over saturated market, blablabla, i have to make something right? ) but turns out I suck for the designing part of it, so why not use something already out there?

What I'm looking for is a 3D Terrain, that is well textured and big enough for a decent open world. No need for buildings, land marks and that stuff.
Or maybe you can show me some assets that make the terrain creation a lot easier.

PS: I'm using Unity as engine if that helps you on your helping me
PS2: I've used Terrain Toolkit for Unity3D, but it's not very realistic terrain in my opinion.

Thanks as always

http://vterrain.org/Packages/Artificial/

I have used a bunch on that list but was back in my 3D mmo days so cannot give much advice.

Thanks a lot

I know it was a long time ago, but maybe you can tell me the first I should look, considering the portability to Unity?

Yeah, terrains are not typically given out as game assets since they are so specific to each game. A good terrain builder will give you an editor where you can set up rules, raise or lower terrain heights, paint textures on, etc.

Like Halls, it has been a long, long time since I used one as I don't do 3D anymore. The tool I used to use was called T.E.D., and it looks horribly outdated now.

Well that's just the problem, I can't find the best "rules" to make my own terrain, it just doesn't look that good... 3D kinda sets the bar high for games that try a modern-look approach, but that's ok.
I would use Unity Terrain editor, but the problem is that Unity sees that terrain as something dynamic, and increases the drawcalls by a lot, if it was just a simple displaced plane, with a general HD texture the drawcalls wouldn't be that high, I guess..

I need to explore those tools given by halls, and try to find the best one that suits my needs

Thanks guys

Yeah the heightmap route might be your best bet.

I've tried a simple heightmap displacement on 3dsmax, the problem is the textures... I wish there was some kind of "paint" in which you could paint the textures in the model like the Unity Editor ...

http://www.world-machine.com/ Is nice for (heightmap) terrain generation, there is a free version too. You can export to unity. I'm not sure anymore how big you can make them, but probably large enough for you.

+1 for world machine. A great and nifty little tool. I tried the free version and the paid version. Offvourse the paid version has a lot more features, but for a basic terrain, the free version works great.

Thanks ill give it a try