Powerful Editor Features

Instant Previews

With the new ‘Mt Rainier’ edition, your edits build fluidly in the background. This is the fastest World Machine yet.

Graph Based Workflow

You should sculpt only if you want to! Using a graph based approach, you can create terrain by connecting together components that create and modify your terrain.

Check out how easy it is to build a terrain at up to 8k resolution in realtime!

Keep it organized

Graph-based approaches can sometimes get messy. World Machine helps you understand your graph:

• Groups & routing – declutter, label, and organize your devices
• Macros – powerful user-created devices that abstract an entire subgraph as a single device.
• Blueprints – easily add sets of devices you typically use together

Full edit history

The new ‘Mt Rainier’ version is built around undo/redo.

• Jump back in time to view and compare previous edits
• Preserve your entire editing history for a project (Professional Edition only)

If you’ve ever used a version control system for software, you’ll feel right at home.

Create Fractal Terrains

Powerful Fractals

Terrains based on fractal noise are a mainstay of computer graphics… but all too often, they look too similar and are difficult to control.

World Machine’s fractal generators allows you to create very unique terrain types and styles, ranging from realistic to incredibly stylized. Everything from typical noise-based terrains to extremely unique localspace fractals are possible!

Simulate Nature

Water Systems

Rivers

World Machine lets you add water that has real elevation, gradients, and flow

The river tool allows you to sketch a river course and automatically apply geological features such as meanders, ripple-pool sequences, and realistic valley walls.

The water flow vectormap is automatically calculated from hydrodynamic principles. All of this (geometry and flowmap) can be easily exported with your terrain.

Material Texturing

Physically Based Rendering

World Machine supports the popular PBR standards, so you can bring in your existing library of PBR materials to texture your world. Or create entirely new materials custom within World Machine.

PBR materials support standard diffuse, normal, height, roughness, metalness, and AO channels.

You can create and export your terrain texturing in several ways, depending on your desired workflow:

Weightmaps

Texture weightmaps (also known as splat-maps) are a set of one or more RGBA bitmaps whose channels act as weights controlling the distribution of materials at any given location in the world.

All selectors and erosion masks can be combined as you see fit to create your weightmaps. The Weightmap device will make sure your map channels are always normalized and coverage adjusted to your preference.

Unique World Texture

Modern projects often avoid the repetition of tiled textures and create a unique high resolution material for every point in your world (sometimes called Virtual Texturing or Megatexturing).

World Machine’s high-resolution output abilties lets you create these unique textures down to the sub-meter level. This works particularily well with tiled export in the Professional Edition.

Export to your favorite Tool

GLTF Full Scene Export

New to ‘Artist Point’ and beyond, you can now easily package and export your entire terrain as one scene with glTF. This makes it easy to view, share, and import elsewhere.

GLTF is a rising standard supported by many applications, and there are many convenient browser-based viewers.

Standard Industry File Formats

Whether you’re creating terrain for a game, feature film, or a visualization you can export your art assets from World Machine.

• Full scene export via GLTF
• Geometry export via heightfield or triangle mesh OBJ files.
• Export color, elevation, or mask data via popular formats like PNG, TIFF or OpenEXR

World Machine is compatible with game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Amazon Lumberyard, Crysis Engine, and many others.

And of course, World Machine also exports for all your favorite 3D rendering package such as Blender, Maya or Cinema4D.