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Terrain System

The Terrain System provides a means of creating terrain geometry for large outdoor environments that automatically adjusts the level of detail based on proximity to the camera and allows for blending of multiple materials. It is complete with an editor that contains a suite of tools for modifying and manipulating the terrain(s).

The Terrain System is being replaced by the Landscape system once that system achieves feature parity with the current Terrain System.

General Topics

Terrain Editor User Guide - Guide to using the Terrain Editor.
Terrain Design - Guidelines and information on creating terrain.
Using Terrain - Descriptions of Terrain actor settings.

Level Creation Topics

Setting Up Terrain - How to create and set up a new terrain.

Content Creation Topics

Terrain Heightmaps - Creating and importing heightmaps.
Terrain Advanced Textures - Techniques for increasing texture detail and quality.
Terrain Alphamaps - Using externally created texture layer alphamaps.