Unlike traditional brush-based terrain editors, World Machine uses a procedural approach. Shape the terrain using basic building blocks such as fractals... then hit them with simulations of nature to create realistic features.

Simply wire together action boxes to create your world.

Here's a great landscape created in less than two minutes.

Import a hand drawn mockup if you'd like, or design completely within World Machine. You have plenty of tools available to tame those crafty fractal generators.

Create superb texturing by using information gathered during erosion.

Get nice results quickly by using some of our built-in macros and presets, or dive in deep and create sophisticated texturing networks of your own.

Whether megatexture or splat-map based, you'll create some awesome texture coverage for your terrain model.

Import into your 3D app in a few simple steps. We provide workflow guides for the most popular software.

Export meshes, heightmaps, megatexture-style bitmaps, splat or weightmaps.

Or maybe some vegetation distribution or special zones.. the possibilies are endless.

A full suite of procedural tools for creating terrain from nothing. Or load from a file for a starting point.

Tame procedurals by controlling how and where they work

Simulate the real world: erosion, talus slopes, snow.. Let us take care of the natural effects for you.

Non-destructive editing of your terrain by connecting together device nodes

Sophisticated color schemes beyond height and slope controls

Export your terrain to use with virtually any 3D software or game engine using heightfields, meshes, textures, weight maps...