Terrain Sculpting Tool

The Terrain Sculpting Tool allows you to manipulate the terrain surface with your mouse by simply drawing on it. Activate the Tool on the left toolbar.

The Tool offers 5 different modes:

Lowering Tool:

This tool will pull down the terrain depending on the options and limits.

Rising Tool:

This tool will rise the terrain depending on the options and limits.

Uneven Tool:

This tool will randomly uneven the terrain depending on the options and limits.

Smooth Tool:

This tool will smooth all uneven ground in a given radius depending on the options and limits.

Flatten Tool:

This tool will pick the height of the position you click and create a flat area on this height.

Simply draw on the terrain using the left mouse button.

Tool Settings

Tool Radius	Changes the radius of the tool itself.
Strength	Defines the intensity and power of each draw cycle.
Hardness	Defines the hardness/softness edges of the brush.
Height Limits	These limits can be used to make sure not to operate below or above a specific height.

Loading a Heightmap

Heightmaps are grayscale images defining a terrain structure by its white value where black is the lowest and white the highest point on the map. Various heightmaps are available on the web and can also be exported from programs like Google Earth. It is recommended to use power of two images sized like (1024x1024, 2048x2048..).