Everything you need to create breathtaking procedural terrains in real time.

Advanced Filter Masking Engines

Control every procedural effect with a sophisticated, multi-layered masking workflow. Choose from terrain-aware procedural selectors—such as slope, height, and curvature—or drive your designs with dynamic noise generators. Need a personal touch? Use our intuitive painting tools or import external textures to define your filters' reach with absolute precision.

• Hybrid Masking Workflow (Manual & Procedural)
• Terrain-Aware Selectors
• Custom Paint & Image Import
• Dynamic Noise Generators
• Universal Filter Control

Unlimited Terrain Size and Detail

World Creator is designed to handle terrains of virtually unlimited size while maintaining high levels of detail. Build small environments, massive open worlds or cinematic landscapes without being constrained by traditional terrain generator limitations.

• Scale terrains from small scenes to massive worlds
• Maintain detail at any resolution
• Ideal for games, film and simulation

Biomes

Biomes allow you to define how environments are distributed across your terrain. Control vegetation zones, terrain materials and environmental characteristics to create believable ecosystems across large landscapes.

• Define biome zones and environmental regions
• Control vegetation and terrain distribution
• Maintain consistency across massive worlds

Procedural Filters and Masks

Combine powerful procedural filters and masks to create advanced procedural terrain generation workflows. Layer multiple systems together to produce natural landscapes with incredible complexity.

• 6+ Erosion Filters
• 7+ Arid Filters
• 4+ Terrace Filters
• 12+ Effect Filters
• 2+ Drift Filters
• 10+ Noise Filters

Realistic Simulations

World Creator includes advanced simulation systems for erosion, sediment movement, snow accumulation, sand behavior and water flow. These simulations help create believable landscapes that follow real-world geological processes.

• Snow Simulation
• Sand Simulation
• Debris Simulation (Stones, Rocks)
• Fluid Simulation (Water, Glaciers, Lava)

River Generator

Generate realistic rivers and water systems directly inside the terrain generator. River tools allow you to create natural water flow that interacts with terrain elevation and landscape structure.

• Procedural river generation
• Manual adjustments
• Manual river generation
• Natural water flow paths

Terrain Sculpting

Shape your vision with a powerful, real-time brush system designed for professional artists. Whether you’re blocking out large-scale continents or detailing micro-terrains, World Creator delivers a clutter-free environment that puts your creativity first.

• Real-Time terrain editing
• Use custom brushes
• Precise artistic control
• Combine manual and procedural workflows

Next-Gen Terrain Sculpting

Experience a new level of control with our unique grid-based sculpting system. Divide your terrain into intelligent cells and use the Grid Brush to select, modify, and refine specific areas with surgical precision. Whether you’re adjusting elevation, applying filters, or re-shaping entire biomes, the grid-based workflow ensures that every modification stays perfectly organized and highly performant.

• Real-Time terrain editing
• Rapid Manual Creation
• High-Scale Performance
• Combine manual and procedural workflows

Powerful Shape Tools

Shape tools allow you to design terrain features such as mountains, ridges, cliffs, plateaus and craters with precision. These tools combine the flexibility of a world builder with the power of a modern terrain generator.

• Create mountains and geological formations
• Flexible terrain shaping workflows
• Vector Tools for Paths, Rivers and Mountains
• 2D Primitive Tools

2D Terrain Stamping

Instantly integrate real-world data into your landscapes with our advanced 2D Stamping system. Import any heightmap along with its corresponding color map and stamp it directly onto your terrain. With full support for real-time scaling and rotation, you can position your features with surgical precision while our intelligent blending algorithms ensure a natural, artifact-free transition.

• Instant Map Import (Height & Color)
• Real-Time Transformation (Scale & Rotate)
• Perfect Procedural Blending

Advanced 3D Model Stamping

Transform any 3D geometry into seamless terrain data in real-time. Simply import your models and watch as World Creator dynamically converts them into high-fidelity heightmap information. No matter how you scale, rotate, or position your objects, our engine ensures perfect procedural blending with the underlying terrain for a cohesive, natural look.

• Dynamic 3D-to-Height Conversion
• Arbitrary Transform Flexibility (Scale, Rotate, Place)
• Universal Model Support

Procedural Displacement Filter

Elevate your landscapes with true geometric depth using our specialized Height-Map Filter. Unlike standard overlays, this feature integrates displacement data directly into World Creator’s procedural engine. Every imported detail becomes a physical part of the terrain, fully interacting with all subsequent filters, erosion simulations, and sediment calculations for a perfectly cohesive result.

• Procedural Filter Integration
• True Geometric Depth
• Baked-In Height Data
• Universal Map Support

Advanced Materials Masking Engines

Command your terrain with a sophisticated masking workflow. Select procedural triggers like slope, height and curvature or use dynamic noise generators. For artistic freedom, simply paint your masks manually or import external textures to define exactly where your filters take effect.

• Hybrid Masking Workflow (Manual & Procedural)
• Terrain-Aware Selectors
• Custom Paint & Image Import
• Dynamic Noise Generators
• Universal Filter Control

Material Layering

Build your terrain’s surface with a familiar, Photoshop-style layer system. This natural approach allows you to stack materials from base rock to topsoil, maintaining absolute clarity and non-destructive control. Organize your workflow with ease and mimic real-world surface logic for a perfectly structured environment.

• Photoshop-Style Workflow
• Non-Destructive Stacking
• Real-World Surface Logic
• Clean Layer Management
• Instant Visual Feedback

Rapid Color Blocking

Define your world’s mood and distribution instantly with our intuitive color blocking system. Quickly apply solid colors to create a clear visual guide for biomes and landscapes. It is the perfect starting point to establish scale and composition before moving into high detail texturing.

• High-Speed Visualization
• Simplified Scene Blocking
• Dynamic Palette Control

High-End PBR Texturing

Enhance your layers by adding Physical Based Rendering for photorealistic surfaces. This feature allows you to augment procedural colors with high resolution texture sets. Load complete archives directly into World Creator or assemble custom sets from individual maps. Seamlessly use libraries like Quixel Megascans for unparalleled visual depth.

• Full PBR Workflow Support
• Archive Import
• Custom Texture Sets
• Quixel Megascans Ready
• Maximum Realism

Adobe Substance Support

Expand your workflow by integrating Adobe Substance materials directly into World Creator. This feature allows you to harness the full power of parametric substances to refine your terrains with highly dynamic surfaces. Benefit from the entire range of features that Adobe Substance offers without ever leaving the application.

• Real Time Customization
• Full Feature Compatibility
• Parametric Flexibility
• Professional Quality

Gradient Map Coloring

Accelerate your texturing workflow by utilizing high quality gradients, also known as Sat Maps, to color your entire terrain with extreme efficiency. This feature allows you to map complex color transitions directly onto your landscape, providing an instant professional look with minimal effort. By leveraging color data from real world satellite imagery or artistic palettes, you can achieve natural and diverse distributions across your entire world in seconds.

• Satellite Map Integration
• Rapid Color Distribution
• Artistic Flexibility
• Procedural Efficiency
• Instant Visual Feedback

Synthesize Gradients

Take full control of your landscape coloring by creating bespoke gradients directly within World Creator. This feature includes an integrated color picker capable of selecting hues from any source outside the application. Whether you are sampling colors from Google satellite imagery or professional landscape photography, you can build unique palettes to match any real world environment.

• External Color Sampling
• Satellite Data Integration
• Total Artistic Control

Fluvial Advection and Color Erosion

Simulate the natural transport of materials across your landscape with Fluvial Advection and Color Erosion. This feature mimics how rainfall washes sediments and colors from higher elevations into valleys and basins. The result is a highly realistic distribution of surface materials, creating organic color blends and natural transitions that reflect real world geological processes.

• Natural Sediment Transport
• Organic Color Blending
• Gradient Synergy
• Dynamic Surface Aging
• Procedural Realism

Micro Detail Displacement

Elevate your terrain by using displacement textures to highlight and raise micro details across your landscape. This feature projects high frequency surface data directly onto your geometry, creating authentic visual depth and physical relief. Achieve a level of realism that standard mapping cannot replicate by displacing the mesh for tangible surface texture.

• Authentic Visual Depth
• Micro Detail Enhancement
• High Fidelity Results
• Dynamic Light Interaction

Advanced Scattering Masking

Command your terrain with a sophisticated masking workflow. Select procedural triggers like slope, height and curvature or use dynamic noise generators. For artistic freedom, simply paint your masks manually or import external textures to define exactly where your asset placement take effect.

• Hybrid Masking Workflow
• Terrain-Aware Selectors
• Material-aware object placement
• Custom Paint & Image Import
• Dynamic Noise Generators

Procedural Scattering

Effortlessly populate vast terrains using advanced algorithms to distribute thousands of objects in seconds. This feature eliminates tedious manual work by applying intelligent rules to create natural forests and meadows. Simply define your density patterns and watch your entire world come to life instantly.

• Universal Asset Import
• Massive Instance Handling
• Infinite Variation
• Automatic Avoidance
• Dynamic Adaptation

Manual Asset Placement

Take direct artistic control by placing individual objects exactly where you need them. This feature is perfect for hero assets and fine tuning compositions that require a human touch. Combine procedural speed with handcrafted precision to create unique focal points in your world.

• Precise Positioning
• Individual Transformation
• Artistic Composition
• Seamless Layering
• Intuitive Interaction

Instancing & Performance

Handle millions of objects without compromising system speed through advanced hardware instancing. This feature ensures that even the densest forests and complex ecosystems remain fluid and responsive. By optimizing GPU data paths, you can build massive worlds while maintaining high frame rates throughout the design process.

• Massive Object Counts
• GPU Optimized Rendering
• Real Time Interactivity

Terrain Conformity

Seamlessly integrate structures by forcing the terrain to adapt to your assets. This feature automatically flattens or modifies the ground exactly where objects like houses or ruins are placed. It eliminates manual sculpting by ensuring the landscape geometry perfectly matches the footprint of your 3D models.

• Automatic Ground Leveling
• Smart Footprint Matching
• Seamless Edge Blending

Universal Format Support

Ensure a friction free workflow by supporting nearly every industry standard 3D file format. Whether importing high poly assets or optimized vegetation, the system handles data seamlessly. This flexibility allows you to pull models from any library or pipeline without compatibility hurdles.

• Broad Compatibility
• Optimized Loading
• Production Ready

Real-Time Path-Tracer

Render landscapes with a built-in real-time path tracer that produces cinematic lighting, reflections and global illumination directly while you design your terrain.

Volumetric Clouds

Create dynamic skies with volumetric cloud systems that add scale, atmosphere and realism to your terrains and landscapes.

Realistic Water

Simulate believable lakes, rivers and ocean surfaces with advanced water rendering that reacts naturally to terrain and lighting conditions.

Reflections & Global Illumination

Enhance realism with accurate reflections that respond to terrain surfaces, water bodies and lighting environments.

Emissive Materials

Add glowing materials and light-emitting surfaces to highlight elements of your environment and enrich cinematic scenes.

LUTs

Apply color grading with LUT support to create consistent visual styles and cinematic moods across your terrain renders.

Render Views

Switch between multiple render views to inspect terrain details, materials and final cinematic presentation inside the real-time viewport.

HDRI Maps

Use HDRI environments to light and reflect your landscapes realistically while previewing your world in a production-ready environment.

Atmosphere, Haze & Fog

Add depth, distance and environmental realism with atmospheric scattering, haze and fog systems that strengthen landscape scale.

Lighting

Control sunlight, sky lighting and environmental illumination to define the mood, readability and time of day of your terrain.

Epic Shadows

Generate strong and accurate terrain shadows that enhance depth perception and reveal the structural beauty of landscapes.

Depth of Field

Create cinematic focus and emphasize terrain composition with depth-of-field controls designed for high-quality landscape presentation.