Terrain Nodes Basics

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Published 2021-11-09
Tutorial covering basics of Terrain Nodes add-on. Hopefully my voice won't put you all to sleep, it is a bit longer than I expected. I plan on making another tutorial that will be covering actual usage.
Tutorial Files: onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AOIanFZyol3tJic&id=3…

0:00 Add Terrain
2:05 Add Displacement Grid (Cycles Only)
3:55 Add Displacement (Modifier)
6:02 Grid Input
7:21 Image Input and Texture Bake Tool
11:08 Water Flow and Rain
15:19 Thermal Erosion
19:56 Water Erosion
27:41 Diffusion Reaction Filter
29:14 Diffusion Plates Filter


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All Comments (21)
  • @BlueEtherium
    Because of you i actually know what i'm doing with this addon now so thanks
  • @fabbrobbaf
    You've created something amazing and I had to buy it!
  • just saw this in my notifications. instant thumbs up! thank you! keep them coming Val! secretly you know you love to present your work! you ought to, show us the magic
  • @ccmcgaugh
    Very cool addon, Val! I'm just trying the free version, but will buy paid today. Would like to see a few basic tuts, especially on shading & displacement. But very impressed with your great work, and the price is small in comparison. I've tried 2 other terrain generators for Blender, and couldn't understand how to use them. But am getting somewhere with Terrain Nodes.!πŸ˜‰πŸ‘
  • @warlord76i
    I just purchased but i need more in depth tutorials on usage.... like terrain, shaders etc.
  • @fabbrobbaf
    Hi again and congratulations for your amazing addon. I'd like to ask you whether it is possible to export an image sequence of the erosion process. Thanks
  • @ccmcgaugh
    Thanks so much for this addon. I hope to post something cool. I have VUE & Carrara, but want to see what kind of terrains Blender can make. πŸ˜‰πŸ‘
  • @Johnsavag
    Hey, I've been having some fun with this addon, but a question I have is how to efficiently extend or scale terrain, if I'm happy with how a setup looks how can simply extend it on it's sides, I find adjusting the size in the last node needs to be proportionally adjusted with the resolution and height in a manner that is difficult to scale. Is there a way one could "tile" terrains to be at least mostly seamless? The scale seems the hardest part to tune
  • I'm also not getting a Terrain Nodes panel at the top of my window, though this panel is in the example files you provided.
  • When I add a new terrain in either Blender 3.0+ or Blender 2.93, I don't get any node tree or Geometry Node modifier. Why would that be?
  • @ScottValentine
    Hi. Forgive my non-existant understanding of geometry nodes, but once I have a terrain can I export point data from it.... to an OBJ or something?
  • @Voxavs
    Hi, any chance you could make this work with AMD GPUs in the paid version, maybe in future updates?
  • @Liam-Scott
    Are sculpted landscapes unable to be used with Terrain Nodes? It's telling me I that It's an invalid mesh due to a sub-surf modifier, which I never had.
  • have the newest blender update add terrain works but not "add note tree" the node tree that shape this geometric form is not visible
  • @ongakuwo
    Lovely Addon, but the documentation is poor, as your working on it because you know what each socket actually does, you should go step by step. But your jumping just to achieve your goal. Im kinda lost. Edit: i bought it and im just playing around, its really nice. I think the best way to achieve my own goal is to bake the specific texture, thats a very nice feature or inbuild solution.
  • @ccmcgaugh
    :re: tuts.....maybe I just need to go through the one above several times.