World building
Terrain, water, plants and paths for characters, built from recipes you can rerun.
Worlds are described as data: a terrain recipe, a body of water, a planting rule. The engine builds the same result every time, and painting forests with a brush arrives in the next release. Collision and navigation come from the same data, so what you see is what characters walk on.
Shipped
Terrain from a recipe
Describe a landscape as a stack of steps (shape, noise, erosion that carves real valleys, flattened pads, shorelines) and the engine builds the same terrain every time. Collision comes with it, and navigation can be baked from it. Materials that put rock on cliffs and snow up high arrive in the next release.
Oceans with weather
A sea that goes from calm swell to a gale, with foam, spray off breaking crests at the Ultra preset, calm harbors you paint with a mask, and waves running up a shore you describe with a height map. Floating objects ride the real waves, and replays on the same machine give the same result. Available in the high-definition renderer.
Rivers and lakes that follow the land
Rivers and lakes form from the terrain's own drainage, and floating objects are carried downstream. Several fresh-water looks are built in. Drawn in the high-definition renderer.
Plants, grass and scattered forests
Grow trees and shrubs from recipes and scatter them over the terrain. Grass and wildflowers move in the wind.
Paint forests with a brush
Paint or erase plants with a brush, and draw thousands as one instanced object, each with a stable identity. Tested headless with a million instances: scene load, memory and physics.
Packages
TerrainBetaShipped
- Terrain recipes and erosion
- Terrain material layers
WaterBetaShipped
- Oceans with weather (Stable)
- Lakes
- Rivers that follow the land
- Beaches and shore run-up
- Waterline and shallows
FoliageBetaShipped
- Trees and shrubs from recipes
- Grass and wildflowers with wind
- Foliage brush
- Instancing for huge plant counts
- Fern preset
Coming in this area
- NowTerrain from a description. Generate whole terrains from a few words, starting from real height data.
- NowGenerated towns and buildings. Generate buildings and small settlements from a recipe, ready to walk through.
- NextHuge streaming worlds. Large maps load in pieces around the player, and pathfinding keeps working across them.
- LaterMore ways to move. Navigation for swimming, flying and driving.
- LaterPrecision far from the origin. Positions that stay precise far from the center of the world, for very large maps.