Realistic Terrain Generation, Texturing, and Shaders

Unity Engine
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Hi. I am trying to create a fantasy RPG sort of game and would like to have a vast and stunning terrain. I am unsure of how to utilize shaders, textures, lighting and terrain generation itself. I was wondering what external tools I can use to make this happen. If you have any ideas, let me know.

Thanks

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I found a combination of GeoControl, Worldmachine and L3DT quite useful for Terrain Generation.
I paint the Isolines of Mountains and other things in GeoControl2, add a bit Noise, Variation and Erosion in L3DT and finaly do some finetuning in Worldmachine.

For the Textureing Part i use the ats Colormap Shader. For a long time i used RTP3 but it doesn’t Support diffrent UV Tiles on every Texture. ats Colormap does.

Textures are mostly self made. But GameTextures.com is also a good source.

For Lightning i use the Standart Unity Lightning with the Asset UniStorm. I would love to use IBL but ats Colormap does not support it.

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Look into Lux (it’s free) and the Advanced Foliage Shader, both by the same author as the ats Colormap Shader (which comes in free and ULTRA versions) mentioned above.

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Just saw Lux yesterday. Looks nice.