How to Create Procedural Terrains in Blender

a video that shows how to create procedural terrain in blender, procedurally generated terrains, using Micropolygon displacement and adaptive subdivision
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[@meowyih1]

This tutorial is soooo good and the method to create terrain is really elegant! And it is only 4 min long! Unbelieveable!!

[@zana3d]

I dont believe I stumbled on this 2 years later...thank you! This video was a life (and time!) saver.

[@chuckcg]

I'm glad it was helpful!

[@DoctorWhovianDW]

This is very nice, and I found out if you just subdivide it (In Edit Mode) without using the adaptive subdivision, It will save you Ram if anyone here has that problem

[@KaranKumar-ee6rn]

I was really struggling with, how to use two or more nodes for hight at the same time thanks for your video ❤

[@elgranpollo9832]

Thanks for the tutorial, you save my live from having a extreme headache from not founding any video, THX!!!

One of the best procedural terrain videos. Thanks.

[@chuckcg]

thanks! glad you found this useful .

[@NabilAbdulla07]

More awesome tutorial i've watched in making mountains in blender :) Thanks dude!

[@charlyclark4603]

This is literally the best tutorial on making a landscape.

[@chuckcg]

Thanks! glad you found this useful.

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the Color Ramp to B-Spline. It will make your landscape _so_ much better.

[@umbra7299]

Holy shit this channel is an hidden gem, just discovered it. Your videos are great. tysm for your work

[@chuckcg]

Thanks!

[@totheknee]

Nice video. Short and sweet, with much better results than I have been getting after 2 hours of fiddling with Musgrave textures. 😅

[@chuckcg]

Thanks, glad it was useful

[@SaS-Music]

Super. I love it. Thank you!

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the color ramp to B-Spline for a realistic look.

[@KHASTER]

I'm gonna have to go through this a couple thousand more times.

[@mrhollywood5285]

I DITTO Altans reply ............ great Chuck Cheers

[@theforest8882]

Thank you I needed this

[@defimental]

Thank you very much for this help

[@danol5749]

Amazing as aways

[@salazar665]

exactly what i needed

[@chuckcg]

Glad you found this useful.

[@SuperPuneri]

very useful thanks

[@TruthSurge]

Well, after adding an ANT landscape mesh (16K faces) and adding subd modifier with 2 levels, I have 250K faces. I guess I need to experiment with using a start landscape or a flat plane. Anyway, I'll come to some kind of understanding of this stuff. Thx for the tut!

[@anirudha301]

Thank you very very much.

[@artemkovalevskyi1265]

Amazing tutorial🤩

[@chuckcg]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@hasindunawarathne2713]

It's Amazing Bro... Thank You...

[@chuckcg]

Glad you like it!

[@jamal2592]

Thanks a lot!

[@ghgltggamer]

gt = good tutorial 😁

[@temudjin1155]

Fantastic!

[@chuckcg]

Thanks!

[@johndeggendorf7826]

That’s beautiful. Thanks 🙏🍷🎩🎩🎩

[@chuckcg]

Glad you like it!

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the Color Ramp to B-Spline. It will make your landscape _so_ much better.

[@santhoshmg2319]

Awesome

[@chuckcg]

Thanks

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the Color Ramp to B-Spline. It will make your landscape _so_ much better.

[@DB_Concept_art]

thanks a lot

[@oliverboehm2703]

thanks

[@rosickygaming6888]

Wow nice

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the Color Ramp to B-Spline. It will make your landscape _so_ much better.

[@akino8916]

you are the best !!!!

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the Color Ramp to B-Spline. It will make your landscape _so_ much better.

[@Crispy_Crumb]

cool!

[@chuckcg]

Thanks so much!

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the Color Ramp to B-Spline. It will make your landscape _so_ much better.

[@TruthSurge]

also, I don't see any dicing rate or subdiv setting in my render properties. I'm using blender 3.5.1. probably why.

[@chuckcg]

In render tab, you have to use Cycles render, also Experimental in "feauture set", also in material tab use to displacement and bump, I explained all this in the video.

[@TruthSurge]

@@chuckcg Only difference I did was I didn't click experimental. Maybe then it would have shown up. thanks!

[@jessicaemerson5010]

I dont have a handle on masking yet. If I wanted to apply a second texture, like procedural sand dunes to the flat areas of this terrain, how would i do that?

[@TruthSurge]

I looked at the # of faces for this showing on your screen. 4. ? It literally says there are FOUR POLYGONS and yet you can see in the viewport tons of details. Wow. Seems like displacing this way would be the way to go when creating multiple mountains in a scene. Some far away ones would not need as much detail then closer ones you could just bump up the polys for those and still be way below any poly limit for your PC setup. I see some people moving the scene in viewport in full cycles render mode with over 8 million polys with no lag. I put a low number in voxel remesh one time and had no idea what I was doing. It took like over a minute and then I looked at my face count. over 66 million faces. ! I quickly hit control z. man, it didn't crash tho. but i was too scared to try and orbit the viewport with 66,000,000 faces. hahhah I assumed it would be laggy even in solid mode. I still get baffled by how to displace since there is a displace modifier and I always thought you had to have actual geometry (faces) to displace so... this still is a bit confusing but I see the result and I see the face count which is insanely low. 4? that's crazy. So, when I try displacement again, I'm going to definitely use this approach and see what happens. Thanks a lot!!!!

[@chuckcg]

Yes this is a cycles feature, micropolygon displacement and adaptive subdivision, but I recommend to use a GPU for rendering.

[@TruthSurge]

@@chuckcg I have a 4070 TI and 64G RAM. I just upgraded over a month ago. I always use GPU for rendering and denoising. Way faster than CPU. But I did not click experimental so that's prob why I didn't see all the settings you had AND why my poly count was way up above yours. Ok, thanks for the help!!!

[@paulrandolph963]

The title said procedural terrain, it was even IN UPPER CASE, PROCEDURAL. That means using Python scripting. This is something else.

[@chuckcg]

Yes, it's procedural docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/render/blender_render/textures/types/procedural/index.html

[@pxgstudios]

Hello, anytime I insert a camera, it clips, any solution for this?

[@latiel2207]

I'm not sure if it's because of the version difference but I didn't get the same result in 1:46 with the Displacement height. All it did when I change it is it moves up and down, didn't give me the same mountain look.

[@chuckcg]

Make sure to use Cycles, also change to experimental in feature set, and add the subdivision surface with adaptive subdivision, also enable displacement and bump in material properties, i explained all this in the video, make sure to follow all the steps.

[@yasminabarnhardt9268]

This is fantastic, I'm following this tutorial for a project of my own and was wondering, how would you go about exporting it from blender into unreal engine 5?? I'm currently trying to figure that one out 😅

[@chuckcg]

Unfortunately we can't do that, because we are using blender procedural textures, but if you want to export for game engines, you can create the terrain with A.N.T. landscape addon, wich is included in blender, here i talked about it kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn3JeYeKmripqZo

[@yasminabarnhardt9268]

Oh dang, do you think that there's a way to turn it into a mesh in blender??

[@chuckcg]

@@yasminabarnhardt9268 As far as i know we can't convert to mesh,The problem will be the amount of detail that this has, there would be millions of polygons if we convert to mesh, that's way the best option is to use a normal map, take a look here for PBR rock textures ambientcg.com/list?category=Rock

[@yasminabarnhardt9268]

Oh ok, yeah makes sense thank you so much for the responses!! ☺️

[@chuckcg]

@@yasminabarnhardt9268 You're welcome.

[@Utsab_Giri]

Thanks for the tutorial! How do I add a texture to the flat part of the terrain?

[@mordfustang1933]

I’m going to try sculpt brush

[@faryanblender8946]

Just put a plane a bit above the flat part this works normally

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

Set the Color Ramp to B-Spline. It will make your landscape _so_ much better.

[@musatepe1543]

how did you get the render?

[@TheDJkarsy]

The only problem with procedural terrain is that you can't add a particle system to it (or at least it won't go on the deformed terrain properly). Unless there's a way that I don't know about... But this does look very good and very quick too, nice one.

[@chuckcg]

Thanks, yes i think the only way is to add the objects by hand.

[@legopatbuilder]

You can bake textures into geometry, but then that means you can no longer procedural edit things, so you have to be sure that's the exact terrain you want before moving on to the particle stage.

[@nemex_old_channel]

why the render says "out of memory"? help :((

[@chuckcg]

increase dicing rate render, you can find it in render properties under subdivision tab.

[@nemex_old_channel]

@@chuckcg it fucking worked !! thanks mate :DDDDD

[@cryptic_owl4245]

can i export this as a heightmap from blender and import it into UE4?

[@chuckcg]

this works only in blender

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

@@chuckcg You can still make a normal output height map and import it.

[@milkywaygalaxymedia4311]

Chuck your channel has THEE Most potential... You are a Legend but do you know that? Or your wife keeping it a secret so not to go to your head 😉

[@chuckcg]

ha ha! thanks so much, glad you like it!

[@jasontrainor5870]

How do you export it to unity?

[@chuckcg]

you can't export it, this is only for blender, if you want a terrain for export, you can use the ANT landscape addon in blender or just use GAEA

[@nokiaairtel5311]

Well, my 4GB 1050ti can't handle it :( Saying optiX failed ☹☹☹ Can anyone help ☹☹

[@chuckcg]

try to use cuda instead of optix.

[@nokiaairtel5311]

@@chuckcg Thanks sir, it worked ! But sadly it occupies 3.9GB(out of 4GB) of graphics memory :( So I don't think , I can add anything extra to the scene ☹

[@chuckcg]

@@nokiaairtel5311 i recommend increasing "Dicing rate render" by default is 1 px, for exemple to 1.2 or more, for preview i was using 4 pixels.

[@nokiaairtel5311]

@@chuckcg OK I'll try and let you know 🙂

[@Thesupperals]

The problem with this method is that many are probably looking into exporting this somewhere else and use it.

[@chuckcg]

Why is a problem? this is for blender and the title says it

[@Thesupperals]

@@chuckcg Because when you boil down to it, this is only a rendering technique when we're talking about a final result..

[@chuckcg]

@@Thesupperals if you don't like it,, then don't use it!