Terrain

• A 3D object
  • Right click > 3D object > Terrain
• You can change the terrain width and length
• Paint terrain
  • Left click mouse
  • Press Shift while left clicking to reduce the terrain
  • You can change the brush size through the inspector, or by pressing [ or ]
    • The opacity - the lower, the more slower the brush moves
• You can set height
  • It creates a plateau
  • If you Flatten All everything is set to the height you set it
• If your terrain plane is at 0,0,0 and you have it flatten all to height 100, you can set your transform position to -100 so that it’s actually on evey level while letting you be able to have valleys
• You can move around while pressing right click + WASD and uncheck camera acceleration under the camera icon
• Jitter
  • Jitter is basically the randomness

Texture

• Paint Terrain > Paint Texture > Layer > Add layer
• Choose layer
• If it seems like it’s not showing very well, increase the size (X and Y was 2 x 2, but now changed to 20x20)

Terrain tool package

Terrain tools > additional unity package that lets you do more stuff

• Just test with things
  • Erosion → wind
    • creates path as if it’s eroded by wind
  • Sculpt → Clone, Sculpt → Bridge
  • Transform → pinch
    • you can “pinch” your terrains
  • Transform → Smudge
    • smudging everything (supder handy)
  • Paint hole
    • you can ctrl and click and fill in hole again
    • caves, pass throughs, and other useful features

Scene view hotkeys

• A - Brush strengh (opacity)
• S - Brush size
• D - Controls Brush rotation
• Control - Inverts the Brush effect for most Brushes; acts as a modifier for others
• Shift - Temporarily enables the smoothing Brush