World machine + L3DT

[JukkaKevät]

Hi, not sure how many of you are familiar with these two programs. I've been using L3DT for as long as I remember, but only recently I found out about World Machine.

After running couple of tests I have to say that this combination is really blowing the hair outta my head. As L3DT has always been really easy to use for the generation of 'basic' landscapes, but with every single bit of information (lightmap, normalmap, heightmap, splats, ...), I've found it hard to generate really interesting or memorable landscapes, unless spending long times on tweaking the design / height map by hand.

This is where the World Machine comes in. This program is intended for the creation of heightmaps only. Basically you create the nodetree which will result in the type of landscape you want, generate the heightmap and then put it into L3DT to calculate textures, lights, water and what not.

Both programs are ridiculously cheap.

http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/
http://www.world-machine.com/index.html

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[EagleEye]

Thanks to you, I downloaded the trial of L3DT, and now... well, I just purchased it after an entire night of playing with it.

I already have a license for world machine...

And... let me tell ya... HOLY... FRIGGIN.... CRAP!!!!

[sciophyte]

nice, I've purchased and been using l3dt for some time now, I will check out world machine on your reccomendation.

[RexWhitten]

with these programs(or others like it)  is there any automation support?

such as batch automated heightmaps+plus other features?

TY

[EagleEye]

Well, with L3DT, the entire process is automated after a certain point... that's kinda the whole point of it.

[AGT]

Well, with L3DT, the entire process is automated after a certain point... that's kinda the whole point of it.

Well..Yes and no.
I wouldn't say so. L3DT has many default settings that's why in most of the case there is little to do, it's not that automated automated as many people may think. In L3DT you can alter almost everything from climates to mountains, plus it has a 3D terrain editor.