ValTerra Puts Sun, City and Camera in Place
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World Creator 2026.4 adds expressions and decals
World Creator 2026.4 brings expressions, decals, terrain normal blending, VRAM scaling, and a free Community Edition that lets you learn, not deliver.
Let’s Build a Blender Hut This Weekend!
A free Blender Geometry Nodes hut generator with adjustable detail and clear reuse rules for personal and commercial projects.
World Creator 2026.1 polishes the boring bits
World Creator 2026.1 focuses on stability, pen input and modest performance gains rather than new features.
Terrain Wrapping Made Easy: Kiri Engine’s Free Blender Add-on
Kiri Engine releases Mesh Wrap, a free Blender add-on that makes projecting and scattering 3D-scanned terrain pieces onto base geometry fast, precise, and non-destructive.
World Creator 2025.3 adds ORBX , Godot bridge and caves
World Creator 2025.3 brings ORBX export for OctaneRender, Godot integration and cave-mask terrain tools, adding flexibility for terrain export and engine pipelines.
World Creator 2025.1 paints biomes and scatters rocks
Biomes, scattering, emissive lava and even GTAV maps: World Creator 2025.1 brings a full ecosystem update to GPU terrain generation.
River in a Click: Baga River Generator v2 Brings Automated Terrain Carving to Blender
Baga River Generator v2 for Blender adds terrain carving, procedural foam, and scatter modifier support for rapid river creation in 3D scenes.
Gaea 2.2 Unveils Frosty Nodes and Selective Erosion
QuadSpinner’s Gaea 2.2 delivers 10 new terrain nodes, major Erosion_2 upgrades, 60 examples and bridges for Unreal Engine 5.6, plus 150+ fixes.
InstaMAT 2025 Graduates: Terrain, Ray Tracing, and Polyverse. Now That’s a Release!
Free for small teams, a next level texture-workflow, collaboration tools, a finely tuned asset library and much more!
Terrain3D 1.0: Godot’s Landscape Tool Levels Up
Terrain3D 1.0 for Godot Engine 4.4 introduces enhanced 3D projection, dynamic collision, and up to 10 LODs for foliage, optimizing landscape creation.
Road Creator Pro: Paving the Way in Unreal Engine 5
Road Creator Pro introduces a versatile spline-based workflow for creating realistic roads in Unreal Engine 5, featuring customizable components and seamless terrain integration.
Terragen 4.8 & Sky Update: Shaping Clouds and Worlds
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.8 and updates Terragen Sky, introducing GPU previews, cloud exports, and a cloud-painting tool for CGI and VFX professionals.
World Creator 2024.3: Enhanced Terrain Generation for Game Dev and VFX
The latest update to World Creator introduces faster terrain generation, streamlined workflows, and deeper integration with engines like Unreal and Unity.
D5 Render 2.9: Enhanced Terrain and Workflow
D5 Render 2.9 updates: Terrain tools, AI-based lighting, and pipeline optimizations for smoother real-time rendering.
Drawing with VR glasses – and in 3D space?
Open Brush 2.0, the latest version of the open-source VR sketching app, introduces an eight-layer system. A release note.
The definitive terrain generator for Blender?
The 3D software Blender is getting a new version of Terrain Mixer - a node-based tool that can be used to raise terrain. A release note.
Draw the sky with Terragen Sky!
Planetside Software expands its software portfolio with Terragen Sky - allowing 360-degree HDRIs of the horizon to be pulled up. The sky is the limit?
Gaea 1.3.2 simplifies terrain generation?
Software developer Quad Spinner releases a new version of the terrain tool - and with it new functions such as rock noise, object-to-heightfield and supersampling screenshots.
Book generator for Unreal Engine 4 & 5 released!
For 37.29 US dollars, you can equip entire walls of shelves with the Book Generator from Meshingun Studio. Build your own library of Babel!
Landscape Stamping Tool for Unreal Engine
Jakob Menz's Landscape Stamping Tool adds more than 100 non-destructive terrain brushes for Unreal Engine 4, 5 and World Partition.
World Creator 3 Rebuilds the Terrain Tool
World Creator 3 removes Unity dependencies, adds a revised workflow and website, while World Creator 2 remains available for missing features.
Blender Artist develops generator for battered buildings
If you want to know how to use Blenders Geometry Nodes to make wooden huts fall apart, you should click on this CG Generalist.
Procedural Level Generator in Unreal Engine 4
Developer J.G.'s C++ 3D autotiler samples volumes and places modular tiles to generate levels for the roguelike Galaia.
Is the Shanghai building generator for Blender coming?
This Blender Artist pulls you through procedurally generated urban canyons.
Book Generator | Generation Generator
The best books for Blender: With this swanky-edural tool, you'll be a bourgeoisie (on the virtual bookshelf).
Houdini | Tutorial Tuesday
Great terraforming in just 13 videos? The game artist from Belgrade makes it possible - with dust, fire and water!
Knitwear generator for Substance 3D Designer!
Great tool: With the Knitted Fabric Generator you can show Tom Ford who makes the catwalk purr!
Procedural Ivy Generator for Blender 3.0
Antoine Bagattini's free Blender 3.0 generator controls procedural ivy density, surface distance and spread.
Houdini to Unreal Terrain Tutorial
A 30-minute tutorial demonstrates a terrain workflow using lidar data, Houdini and Unreal Engine for environment production.
MegaFier Terrain Plug-in Brings Landscape Tools to 3ds Max
MegaFier's Terrain plug-in offered a perpetual 3ds Max landscape workflow for importing and working with terrain data.
Terrain Mixer Brings Procedural Landscape Workflows to Blender
Terrain Mixer offered Blender artists a procedural workflow for importing, combining and texturing terrain heightmaps and diffuse maps.
Efeu-Generator | Unity
We're getting green fingers: more green branding with the ivy generator!
Instant Terra Plugin Connects Real-Time Terrain Workflows to Unreal Engine
Wysilab released early access for an Instant Terra plugin supporting Unreal Engine 4.26, 4.27 and 5 terrain workflows.
Houdini and Unreal Engine Power a Scalable Cliff Generator
ArtFX technical artist Lucas Dziura explains a scalable procedural cliff generator built with Houdini and Unreal Engine 4.
Instant Terra Tutorial Exports Terrain to Clarisse
Wysilab demonstrates how to create terrain in Instant Terra and import the result into Clarisse, with downloadable project files.
XMD Source Releases Terrain Brushes for ZBrush
XMD Source’s Terrain Brushes pack for ZBrush includes 46 brushes, high-resolution crack brushes, 2K alphas and a VDM brush.
Wysilab Receives Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra Link
Wysilab received an Epic MegaGrant to develop a live connection between Instant Terra and Unreal Engine.
Houdini City Roads Generator | Tool
Build roads, pavements, car parks and more with Denis VFX's tool.
Polysnow for 3ds Max: Building Procedural Snow Cover
Polysnow generated editable snow cover in 3ds Max using particle-based previews, painting, merging and baking tools.
Procedural Legoliser | Houdini
The Lego bricks pile up as the camera travels through the desert canyon.
Unigine 2.12 Terrain Tutorials
Unigine tutorials cover landscape sculpting and texture-based terrain, plus quick tips for C#, VS Code debugging and cached shadows.
Instant Terra Painted-Mask Tutorial
Wysilab demonstrates how to build a mountain and island in Instant Terra from a painted mask, then composite terrain and vegetation.
Free Terrain Software: TerreSculptor 2
TerreScultpor 2 is newly released: The procedural terrain software is now available free of charge and comes with export formats for DCCs !
Directed Erosion Possible in Gaea
The new Early Access build now also has this practical tool.
CityEngine 2018 Update
Esri towers further into unimagined heights with the latest updates to the popular engine.
World Machine 3021 Rises
The popular terrain generator is available in a new version and with new features.
Max 2019 Terrain Plug-in
The latest 3DS Max version has now also received the corresponding terrain plug-in. Included is a new beta feature for your own DEM data.
SideFX: Houdini Foundations PDF
Houdini Foundations: 100 free pages of basic knowledge for Houdini 16.5 in PDF form. SideFX offers a new introduction to the node-based procedural workflow.
World Machine: New Free Version
More landscape possibilities: with World Machine, you can now use all the features of the Standard Edition in the free version too.
3D Terrain with World Machine
World Terrain is software that can be used to create procedural 3D terrain. Here is the appropriate tutorial.
Google Maps Integrates Topographic Maps
Terrain mode focuses on mountains, valleys and vegetation.
IBC: Curious Software Presents World Maps 6.0
Three additional tools for the new World Maps 6.0 are designed to simplify working with and presenting map material