# Terrain

The Depence rendering engine offers real-time tessellated terrain sculpturing and atmosphere scattering to render realistic outdoor scenes. To create terrain and an atmosphere click on **Main Menu** > **Objects** > **Create Environment**.

This will automatically add a terrain and atmosphere object to your scene.

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