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Old July 11, 2008, 12:46
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World Machine 2 for FREE

Over two years in the making, and building upon the highly successful World Machine, World Machine 2 introduces a great set of new tools to enhance the way you create and texture your terrain.
Available Now!
World Machine combines dynamic previews, powerful terrain effects, vector-based graphical editing, and a graph-based user interface to allow for the rapid creation of extremely varied and realistic terrain.


Visual Design, Procedural Power


Bridge the gap between artistically hand-crafted and fully artificial terrains.

Click the image to open in full size. World Machine 2 allows you to seamlessly use vector-based drawing tools to manipulate your terrain. Combine the power of infinitely detailed fractals with intutively drawn shapes to define your major terrain features.
  • Create Shapes to use as a base for further terrain synthesis.
  • Insert Roads and other shapes that can realistically carve and fill the surrounding terrain.
  • Draw Masks to control or limit effects to particular geographical regions.
  • Interchange vector shapes with illustration and 3D packages using industry-standard file formats (SVG, AI)

Artificial Terrain. Natural Appearance


Click the image to open in full size. Powerful Fractal Generators

The mathematical theory of fractals provides nearly unlimited level of detail to your terrains. However, fractal terrains often lack diversity and are difficult to control.
World Machine 2's Advanced Perlin Noise allows you to create very unique terrain types and styles, ranging from realistic to incredibly stylized.

Click the image to open in full size. Graph Based Interface

The shape of your world depends upon the components used to create it. World Machine uses a network-based (graph) user interface; these have been growing in popularity for a number of years. By stringing together components, you can achieve endless combinations of effects.


Click the image to open in full size. Powerful Erosion Modelling

The natural world is not shaped merely by mathematics. Wind, water, and other chaotic processes are responsible for much of the appearance of our world. World Machine offers industry-leading erosion tools to help create natural appearing terrains.

Click the image to open in full size. Powerful precipitation and river erosion models allow you to simulate millions of years of erosion...without having you wait around too long.


Texture your World


For the first time, World Machine can create not only the shape of your terrain, but the color of it. Create megatexture-style high resolution texture maps for your external renderer or simulation engine, or create and export influence maps for traditional tiled texture rendering. To help deal with the complexity of crafting textures, World Machine 2 ships with a variety of pre-built macros that make assembling fantastic looking surface texture maps quite easy. In fact, most of the images you see here have had their texture maps created solely with one of these default macros!

RGB data is manipulated in full 32bit floating point accuracy, and can be exported to 8 and 16bit/channel formats.


One World. Many Views


The terrain you define in World Machine exists upon an endless plane; you can view or export as large or small a section as you prefer at any time. Your viewing options incude:
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  • Realtime 3D Views Every action you take is previewed immediately for the current rendering viewport in a fully 3D viewport
  • Explorer View Highly dynamic, Explorer View is not limited to merely showing you the current rendering area. Instead, you can fly, drive, or walk through the entire boundless world you have defined.
  • Layout View The complement to Explorer View, Layout View is an orthographic overhead view. Offering Google Maps-style navigation and an astounding zoom ratio greater than 10,000:1, Layout View allows you to design, plan, and inspect your world in full detail.


...and too Much More to List!


The features above only scratch the surface of what World Machine is capable of. What else does it offer? A few examples include:
  • High-precision heightfield import and export
  • Mesh export
  • Extremely powerful macro system for user content creation
  • Raytraced lighting and Normal Map creation
  • Highly evolved
Ready to give World Machine a try? Download the free Basic Edition today!

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Old July 11, 2008, 14:01
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Great program! infact it's so good i had to buy the Pro version :) it's well spent money if you like to create realistic landscapes.
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Old July 11, 2008, 14:47
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I have the free version too. I started playing around with it several years ago and it is a great companion to Terragen (either version, but I still like the simplicity of Terragen 0.9).
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Great soft... i like it...
Thx and have a good day
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Old August 18, 2008, 21:47
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The Pro version is worth it if you want great terrains.
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