How to build beautiful landscapes in Unity using Terrain Tools | Tutorial

[@nuclearapples1412]

still no path/road tools! why can we have splines built in? unreal engine has water and path system.

[@TheVuja011]

I dont think it matters how it looks in the showcase video...they are giving us the tools, it's up to us to make it look good...They just showed us how to use some simple tools using free assets. Great video, and once again, i learned something from it.

[@lemetamax]

It's...it's beautiful 🤤 I know how to use the tools, I usually don't know WHAT to do, I'm not a good artist, so I end up creating something forgettable. Please turn this video into a series.

[@stylie473joker5]

Even great artists have to inspire from something to create

[@giuseppemilana6220]

Grass scatter is not supported in HDRP just for those who are going crazy with that!

[@giuseppemilana6220]

@Dindu Well if you say like that I can say we should use Unrxxx, but it depends on what you need to do isn't it?

[@LethalLizardStudios]

@Dindu If you don't use HDRP everything looks dated 10 years in my opinion it's the only good option

[@robosergTV]

@@LethalLizardStudios what? URP and build in looks great. URP vs HDRP looks almost identical

[@LethalLizardStudios]

@@robosergTV I agree URP Looks good I was mainly talking about built-in which makes everything look like its from 2012

[@mowax74]

@@LethalLizardStudios You don't know what you are talking about, since the built in renderer till now still has more features than the URP. Performance is a different story - but you are talking about the look or what you can achieve with it. SSR alone is worth it to stay with BuiltIn, for those of you who don't want to move to HDRP now. When you target mobile devices, go for the URP. The reason is performance, not the look.

[@felixnotthecat4249]

"How to help BSG to make Escape From Tarkov a better game."

[@dartutorials7859]

Before this Tutorial my Landscapes looked like DOOM! Now my Landscapes look like Skyrim. 😄😄😄 Great Tut as always!! Maybe I'll upload my landscape that I created with this tut soon..

[@arthurjvnb]

Please do that and post the link here :)

[@sebas1111_]

8:22 Ahh, another half implemented set of features Unity is trying to push on us. Not gonna bite, sorry.

[@CornRecords972]

Bounce lights arent exactly a feature they're just directional lights with low intensity to reduce shadow darkness that's been used in the industry since Quake

[@PlusEqual]

Really need to get back into creating cool landscapes, the tools are much better now!

[@alligator4465]

Thanks SO much, I was getting really frustrated trying to download the terrain tools in the package manager and your tutorial fixed the issue for me!

[@vasileiospgr]

09:36 I still don't know why after all these years, the Scene Window Camera still have that bug where anything in front of the camera disappears even when it's not so close to the Scene Window camera and you have to close & re-open the Scene Window in order for it to get fixed. It's still happening here in your video...

[@deekshithr862]

thanks a lot unity i was searching for this

[@josephforjoseph]

So clear and direct. Thank you for this effective tutorial. I will definitly use this for reference

[@unicorne6501]

Great video, Sad that half of it doesn't work in HDRP :( would like a better vegetation tools in the future when HDRP vegetation tools comes around. a triplaner option would also be great :)

[@christhegendersloth2901]

Make grass as trees on the terrain. Loses some functionality

[@LethalLizardStudios]

This is why Unity needs to add grass and details to HDRP terrain so you can actually have "Beautiful" terrain not whatever this is

[@goadplayz9003]

YES THE MOMENTS IN 53 SECOND IN THE VIDEO THAT WHAT I NEEDED THX U

[@unrealdaemon8237]

about old grass. I remembered 7 years ago it was when I was studying Unity

[@paulblart5358]

No decals? Decals can be used to really sell the terrain by adding unique details to the terrain like cracks in the road.

[@RausanSinha]

critical! we need decals!

[@Gasimo]

"You can mitigate this issue by adding multiple directional lights" must be the most hacky unperformant solution to a problem I have ever heard.

[@irtezarahman5370]

I am a regular unity user. Still I will say unity must need to focused on realtime GI and make light calculations more accurate

[@CodingJedi]

This is amazing! Learned a lot!!

[@adityachaudhary004]

thanks for that much effort

[@gdnerd1113]

Unity should also give us dynamic sky like terrain tools but i like the video unity is awesome.

[@soheil4471]

yes dynamic sky would be cool

[@LuisFernando-nd7cj]

wow. thank you for the amazing video

[@amit22joshi]

Awesome 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏...I am gonna try this💪💪💪

[@rohrichoak9740]

Why are so many people nagging about the quality and how "dated" the scene looks?! It looks amazing and I've played way too many games in the nineties to assure graphics weren't a fraction of that. Plus, now we can make indie games much better visually than those of the nineties, but the fun factor of the nineties can hardly be found in what is done today.

[@Nuwn]

Hoping for a good buildin Path tool for terrains in the future, the paths in video doesn't look like proper paths with no edges etc.

[@AlexeyIovchuk]

OK. What about adding hanging cliffs or caves? Looks like the tool creates some sort of flat hight map and such things aren't supported.

[@firefangzzz]

This might get to you a bit late, but for cliffs, you can just go a gradual elevation by raising the terrain and then doing a sharp/concentrated leveling job (all this done with the paint brush). For the caves I use Maya3D to personally 3D model it. You can use Blender as I believe it's a free alternative. That way you can export the cave and just drop it in Unity as an object so you can duplicate it or whatever. Also, what I used to do is just make a huge box or tunnel using the create>square 3d object and just decorate the inside with prefabs of rocks/crystals to give it a cave look. The same with the outside of it. (hopefully the last part makes sense)

[@johnx140]

This was so good! Thanks!

[@HighPalace123]

Very nice and clear, thanks

[@FernandoMaker]

Fantastic, I can't wait for the splines 😁

[@fardinmoqamzada2771]

Terrains still reduce performance on Android hope u do something about that too

[@heldros202]

Can you please help me? In the 1:08. when u open the terrain .. i dont have this option did i install something wrong? do i need another download? am i on the wrong unityversion?

[@rifat2448]

me too

[@makulVR]

same here

[@2killnspray9]

You need to install terrain tools before

[@simoncodrington]

Great video guys, keep up the good work!

[@sinsawoogamez5859]

I just started using Unity but I ran into an issue idk if its just me but the dragging the Terrain Tools next to the inspector tab doesn't work for me. also I dont see Terrain on the window menu so idk if i'm just doing something wrong.

[@LordAssassinLych]

why my Noise and Erosions brushes aren't working? They just work and Raise or Lower Terrain brush!

[@drvic5498]

World Creator 3 will be the best builder map for me :P

[@hannesr8910]

I cant find terrain tool box. I have preview packages enabled.

[@Ialsas]

Is it better to make a landscape with Blender/Maya etc and import to Unity or directly make the landscape here?

[@2killnspray9]

I don't have "terrain" in "windows"!?

[@2killnspray9]

Why the the most BASIC part is never explained on Unity videos? How we put a texture to the terrain to start?

[@ludologian]

Or you could use height map from real world terrains, get landscape automaterial , and world random creators systems .

[@Xiaoxiao738]

I am using unity 2021.1.3 and the terrain tool box doesn't show up in the package manager at all. What do I do?. I've enabled preview packages as well.

[@МаксимНечаев-з2в]

Same, waiting for an answer

[@soheil4471]

I hope they do smoething for detail brush in hdrp :(

[@daggerone3370]

The like number three thousand !!!!

[@ruhanpotgieter5807]

The layers tab under Paint Textures disappears sometimes.

[@Soraphis91]

there is no solution for paths and rivers out of the box. working with custom trees is a pain (vertex painting for wind has to be done manually, no mesh collider support), unity builtin grass looks horrible und in masses has a bad performance. rocky cliffs... just don't talk about it, this video does not talk about it too. I love unity, but working with terrain is pure pain and its sad to see it promoted as "beautiful landscapes". for the pure environment design shown in the video: it feels like programmer-art. just for an example: in a dense forest you usually don't find grass. the ground should be covered in leaves, you should leave trails behind if you walk through it.

[@ethanmartin1398]

Heads up the terrain tool that was linked is the 2.0 version. I didn't work for me. I found the newest 4.0 version and downloaded that and all is well for anyone having the same issue.

[@JustinS06]

Thanks for pointing it out dude! I couldn't find out why I had less brushes than the tutorial, now I know :)

[@shubhampanwar7647]

Thanks, it is really informative. Also is there anything for making tiling less noticeable?

[@stylie473joker5]

I'd suggest using 2 textures together to add variation

[@shubhampanwar7647]

@@stylie473joker5 yes i did it 👍. I was using urp terrain material so i copied the original shader and modified its code a little. I used the same texture but superimposed its 4x image on itself

[@haachamachama7]

I couldn't figure out how to get Terrain Tools because I had another asset called terrain tools and was confused as to why it wasn't working. Classic Unity, making us download some extras that probably should've just been included in the base engine lol

[@NulleDulle]

Great, Terrain Tools nowhere to be found, thanks :) .

[@christopherborchert6951]

Did you turn on "Enable Preview Packages" im Edit > Project Settings > Package Manager ?

[@NulleDulle]

@@christopherborchert6951 i did, it was really nowhere to be found, had to force it through link install instead.

[@christopherborchert6951]

@@NulleDulle Weird. I'm glad you were able to get it eventually though.

[@NulleDulle]

@@christopherborchert6951 but by using it seems way more difficult.. as if i accidently click outside of the terrain, i have to restart unity to be able to use the brushes again, so i restarted Unity 10 times during 15 minutes.

[@zayasan6289]

Guys get a cube a click add componet. Search up terrain and it should show up.

[@hereticatch3333]

"Beautiful" - Maybe 10 years ago.

[@johnhio1843]

10 years, and then some.

[@shikhermyv]

It depends on your skills.

[@2killnspray9]

Because you think a game like Minecraft is "beautiful"? And the camera is higher quality than what you see during the building part

[@2killnspray9]

You can make it higher quality in the settings check tuto about it.

[@waterlanestudios6670]

Good Vid' - Cheers (PS - More terrain material layers for HDRP please ('had to ask)). :-)

[@grantscott1686]

the windows tab in unity doesn't show a "Terrain" option...??

[@upgradedcupcake]

Thanks! Very helpful tutorial for beginners. Your terrain looks great!

[@TheIndieGamesNL]

@Unity you should add a Mass Grass placer like you have for Trees.

[@yojanamamgain2732]

I luv unity.....😘😘

[@Pioneerprawn]

Speed Tree's package is deprecated. Does anyone have a better option?

[@escanor8696]

Most of the free assets in URP is showing pink and is always showing error, It is very time consumming to change the texture of each object.. This has been reported many times but still nothing is happening..

[@TheKiwiCoder]

Lol this is so complicated. I just want to create a level with hills, vegetarian, roads, rivers and buildings. I don’t want to ‘think like nature’. Please figure it out for me, and the materials while you’re at it, thanks!

[@alganongun1903]

Wow you are here to

[@bencemervay]

When will you add detail brush to hdrp? :D

[@iamtibit]

Prob around summer time or by falls 2021 release.

[@bencemervay]

@@iamtibit would be great :)

[@unity]

@@bencemervay We're looking into adding an improved detail painting brush to the Terrain Tools package. It is on our roadmap for this year, and it will work in HDRP.

[@bencemervay]

@@unity Cool! I am more than excited! :)

[@juleswombat5309]

My Unity Terrains Trees and Grass just end up looking rather metalic, with bright green trees and grass, with no colour depth on the flowers. So the default lighting or materials must be messed up somehow. It is still not obvious how to get decent looking Terrain with the default setup.

[@mostlypixels2975]

Auto-Materials and a World Composition system like Unreal are needed.

[@zainh.6790]

i cant find the tool please help

[@su-8946]

I hope I can do this someday

[@stephanzoes8010]

Wait for me I'm using 2021.1 and instead of "Preview Packages" it's "Pre-released Packages" and even when I have that checked, it won't show the Terrain tools to download.

[@GetsoTv]

did you solve the problem? i have it too

[@GreenGnoblin]

I followed the instruction but there is no "terrain" on the window tab.

[@anon94736]

on the top right in the search, enter the word "terrain"

[@шкаф-ц3г]

@@anon94736 Thank you!!!

[@Celcious]

really nice

[@St4rdog]

Or just use MapMagic combined with MicroSplat/MegaSplat, because who wants to hand-paint terrain in 2021 and only have a diffuse/normal map that tiles???

[@MadpolygonDEV]

Its embarrassing how primitive those tools and workflows are. Unity is sleeping prioritising the wrong things. You should probably make the tools much more intuitive and more features out of the box instead of having 80% of your userbase go for marketplace solutions but I guess you guys benefit from users buying marketplace solutions so you guys will probably never change until the competition eventually decimates the engine entirely

[@vikrambansal6736]

U def a memphrican

[@jj_realm7040]

Can you explain more? I am about to jump into Environment design. I choose unity instead of Unreal engine and blender

[@seldemirov]

Are you serious? Have you made a promo tutorial for an asset that hasn't been updated since May 22, 2019?

[@SacWebDeveloper]

Can this be used to make a game world the size of GTA 5 with seemingly infinite draw distance (when viewed from high points e.g. flying in jet or standing on mountain) or do I need to make a custom sliced mesh LOD system?

[@priyanshuprashar9623]

Prolly unity ignored unreal 5 trailer

[@C-TofficialMusic]

When I click on window i dont have the option to click on terrain? 01:10

[@zayasan6289]

get a cube a click add componet. Search up terrain and it should show up.

[@keelfly]

Great features... except HDRP Grass Layer :P Did I mention how outdated this looks?

[@thekite3h]

HDRP and DOTS terrain never

[@attakforce93]

The more they are releasing tools the more they are going far away from artists imop. Maybe it is a selling point but to me, it is just a bad decision. All the Unity tools are improving but still really not intuitive and "appealing" out of the box. Also.... we have SRP/URP/HDRP.... It is getting a nightmare sometimes... Work in modules with 1 solid starting point is it THAT difficult? ...we will see cheers

[@stigmamax9996]

when I place trees, I can't modify them individually afterwards.

[@alexandravega9474]

hey i have a problem, when i enabled the previe packages it still doesn't show the "Terrain Toolbox" tab but the "Terrain tools", and it's not the same, doesn't show the same options. Please help ASAP. :(((

[@StigDesign]

Anying bug is the Unduo buffer if you increase texture size on the terrain i hope it gets fixed, and also yes spline tool for road simular to what Torque3D/Torque Game Engine had :) Make Hole in Terrain is Great for making tunnels etc, but light mapping is bugged if doing that :(

[@5252emre]

why its dont use heightmap and occlusion blending between the Terrain Layers ? Its look 100 times better and its not difficult to intergrate.

[@DarkDao]

Are there built-in ways to do fast world streaming already? Or things like SECTR are still the only viable option if you don't want heavy lags in open world projects.

[@unity]

Hey there. For now, only via third party systems, like World Streamer.

[@DarkDao]

@@unity Okay. Maybe consider hiring/funding World Streamer 2 devs and make it a part of the engine, like you did with ProBuilder. Unity desperately needs this feature built in.

[@Wladyslaw1440]

@@unity I am very new to unity and this helped me get used to making a terrain but there’s one problem, I can’t get grass, I tell my friends for help because they have more experience than me but they tell me to download from a website or make a mesh, none of these work as they both turn out weird if that makes sense, where do I get grass do I download it and if so where? (Sorry for my bad English)

[@ssj3mohan]

Thank you .

[@donaldblattner3474]

This is haunting me! I have updated from 2020-3-13F1 AND 2020-3-15F2 and have the "Terrain Tools" and "Terrain Tools Sample Asset Pack", but do not have the ability to do "Edit Terrain Layers" to add Layers to the Terrain (under Paint Texture). I get the same common 6 subjects in Terrain drop-dow, but not the extended list from "Terrain Tools Sample Asset Pack". Any ideas?

[@dorukcoskun601]

I'll be honest, this doesn't look like the standard of 2021 at all. It looks like the 2005 - 2010 era. Brushes are not intuitive, unity doesn't provide enough variety out of the box. Performance is an issue and the end result looks bad. I would be ashamed to release this in 2021, February...

[@augermeister3626]

its indie games not minecraft with optifine

[@theearthburner6159]

Well but you're probably an indie game dev, you're not challenging GTA 6

[@augermeister3626]

@@theearthburner6159 good thinking

[@theearthburner6159]

@@augermeister3626 yeah, I don't understand why everyone thinks this looks bad, it looks pretty impressive

[@5252emre]

haha soy ismini bas ismiyle deistirisen eski okulumdaki bir cocugun ismi oluyor

[@cosmotect]

I find it hillarious that even an official Unity tutorial has to set brush strength to 0.01 in order to not create kilometer high spikes. That basically makes the shift mode unusable, since the soft brush at 0.01 does basically nothing. Please FIX!

[@Internet_Enjoyer]

this really just looks like unreal engine 15years ago. im having a hard time finding the will to learn these tools when the results seem so out of time.

[@DarkHeliosGamesInteractive]

The video showcases the tools and the basics the principles in order to start creating maps if you have powerful pc with pro assets and some creativity....well unreal , unity , cryEngine you name it is the same more or les.

[@da_drood-digitalart]

I think it's a shame that triplanar mapping of textures on terrain isn't a built in feature (at least in version 2022.3.12). How is one supposed to create good textured canyons for example, using terrain instead of modeled meshes?

[@xwestlightx]

i know its an old video but i still try to do the same as you did. i downloaded the tool asset pack (even tho on the link is it a different name). i even did get through the package manager and installed the terrain tools but for some reason i do not get the window for terrain tools. im searching and searching but i just simply cant find the reason for it. can someone help me please? i cant even use the shortcuts A,S and D for the brush.... its like im missing something important here :/

[@sungerbob1786]

look at all the negative comments :( i wish i didnt have to start using unity because of the new job i got..

[@LanciaSiluri]

what is the max possible terrain size?

[@slavomirro]

I would be excited about this like in... 2015 but even then unity plugins offered much better control over terrain than this . If i have to paint all textures manually and same goes for foliage then I'm not interested. In 2021 I expect non-destructive workflow based on layers and masks. Tutorial above is good for kids that just want to make some basic terrains and have fun not learning anything useful.

[@CornCobKing]

I can't seem to alter the brush with the keyboard short cuts any ideas?

[@countinfinity776]

And the end result looks like crap.

[@psychologe112]

programing with unity tutorials is like about 1 hour programing and 10 hours find out why the fck the tutorial is not working.. there is no terrain in window

[@redjohn4886]

I'm total with you. Every time I start Unity everything is somewhere else and I can't find it. I have the same problem their arent terrain under the window tab -.-

[@iamtibit]

Maybe use HDRP next time? This is just old news by now.

[@EgoJacky1]

The Tree Package is not available anymore

[@diebygaming8015]

You showed the more obscure "erosion" tool but you didn't show the smooth height tool, which is probably the most important terrain sculpting tool. The smooth height tool isn't working. All the other tools are, but they are basically useless without the smooth tool available. Why doesn't the smooth height tool work on some of my terrains when the other brushes all work fine? this is happening in multiple projects and versions of unity. In some projects with multiple terrains, the smooth tool works on some terrains and not on others. Please address or help me fix this asap

[@ph0ax497]

it works, when you have high density mesh (meaning, it is high resolution) the average normals of the faces are much tightly packed, and there is less of pinch to smooth. Smooth tool does not correct the height values of landscape, but corrects stretching of the mesh, preventing texture distortion. Its more of optimalisation really, than actuall terraforming tool. I can suggest you, to use flatten slope tool, with the help of thermal erosion. Thermal erosion "melts" geometry, and flatten slope tool, fade out wierd pinches.

[@moviedudes5387]

How to convert world coordinates to terrain coordinates?

[@doanhnhan2118]

The tutorial is out of date. Every thing is changed in version 2021.