((UNDER CONSTRUCTION! Help me fill this out by adding suggestions)) Sharing our strategies for using PG output with CAW Sharing what we know about how to use that software, through tips and mini-tutorialsģ.

Indexing resources such as software and tutorialsĢ. The purposes of this thread is to introduce Procedural Terrain Generation to creators by…ġ. We are only limited by the restrictions of the CAW height map. It can be used for transformations both subtle and dramatic. With Procedural Generation (PG for short?) we can either generate new terrain algorithmically OR we can apply algorithms that mimic weathering or other distortions to our existing terrain. It can be quite tricky getting that data to look they way you want it to in CAW, especially with getting the scale right and dealing with smoothing, and more often than not, we want to generate our own shapes for use in CAW. However, there are lots of limitations with simply working with DEM data, DEM software, and a graphics editor to generate your height map. In my profession I worked with a lot of real-world Digital Elevation Data, and so naturally I got my start in CAW importing that data. Hand sculpting and painting terrain in CAW can be incredibly rewarding and produce lovely results, but sometimes we want our landscapes to look more realistic. We can use such programs to generate height maps for CAW. Procedural generation is the process of using algorithms to generate landscapes with programs that mimic natural landscape processes.

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