World-machine.com Website Review

use tools like erosion to create realistic cg landscapes. then export to unity, ue4, or your favorite 3d tool. for nearly a decade, world machine has been the go-to terrain generation tool for 3d artists. more than 8,000 customers have chosen wm to create terrain for aaa game titles, visual effects, or their own artwork. world machine has allowed me to quickly and efficiently create mas*ive game areas both terrestrial and otherwise. the feature set and work flow get better with each release. a must have tool for any environmental artist. i have used world machine on a number of film projects and find it an invaluable as*et for environment creation. world machine was instrumental in creating the terrain for our supersonic sled demo. we needed a very large landscape and wanted something natural-looking but with enough control that we could place canyons and hills exactly where needed. world machine handled all of world machine gives us the power to create very realistic terrains in a short amount of time.. its erosion filters are the best i have seen but also give a lot of control over the final look. i would recommend this to any development studio that needs very realistic -kenny lammers, technical art director, microsoft games studio world machine works well with our proprietary terrain editor in that we can not only create height maps, but alphas for our terrain paint. layers as well. this saves a bundle of time and with results that look more detailed and professional. -rebecca shearin, senior environment artist, electronic arts i have been using world machine since version 1.25 and haven't found anything else that can compete for ease of use, versatility and unlike traditional brush-based terrain editors, world machine uses a procedural approach. shape the terrain using basic building blocks such as fractals.. then hit them with simulations of nature to create realistic features. import a hand drawn mockup if you'd like, or design completely within world machine. you have plenty of tools available to tame those crafty