Best Way to Create a Terrain

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Hello everyone, today I had a quick question. I want to create a forest, but I don’t think it would look very natural if it was completely flat. What would be the quickest way to make a natural and realistic looking terrain? In other words, what tools should I use? I’ve heard of Terrain Edge and World Machine, but could someone please elaborate on what they do?

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TSX_Crytek

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one phenomenally easy and great tool is the unity terrain. simply create a new terrain from the gameobject menu at the top of the screen. the tools are very straightforward and there are plenty of tutorials to help you with terrains if you can’t figure them out on your own.

Quishtay™ all the way!

forgot to mention, you don't need to import any assets or anything, this comes with the free version of unity.

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Oh my bad, I forgot to mention that I've already tried Unity's built in tools and found it hard to create a terrain with rolling hills. Am I doing something wrong?

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Thank you rednax20 (and Commander Quackers) for helping me create a terrain. I have made a nice looking terrain by combining the uses of Unity's terrain tools and World Machine to create a great looking result.

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good for you! hope your game is everything you want it to be, Good Luck!

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