Working with the Terrain Editor

Working with the Terrain Toolbox

Challenge 1: Create and sculpt a Terrain

Challenge 2: Paint textures onto the Terrain

Challenge 3: Add Foliage and Details to the Terrain

Recorded Live Session - Introduction to Terrain Editor

Submission - Introduction to Terrain Editor

The Unity Terrain Editor enables you to create detailed and realistic terrains. Using the provided sets of Terrain tools, you are able to efficiently design optimized landscapes with ease. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and customize a terrain using specific tools and techniques, ranging from shaping the landscape, adding trees, and using brushes to enhance your terrain with additional details. By the end of the tutorial, you will have a solid understanding of how powerful and versatile the Terrain Editor can be, and how easy it is to create customized terrains for your projects. 

Getting Set Up With Your Project

Creating a Terrain

Creating Neighbor Terrains

Sculpting Terrain Features 

Terrain Textures Overview

Getting Set up with Sample Textures

Painting Terrain Textures

Using the Trees and Details Brushes

Getting Set Up with SpeedTree

Using the Paint Trees Tool

Painting Details

The Terrain Settings Tool

Next Steps

Based on what you learned in the preceding tutorials, the following exercise is designed to challenge you on painting the terrain you created in 

Before you begin

Add textures to the paint brush.  

 Use the brushes to paint the texture onto the terrain. 

Based on what you learned in the preceding tutorials, the following exercise is designed to challenge you on adding details and foliage to the terrain you have created.

 Add the Conifer tree prefab to the trees tool in the Terrain window 

Select the Conifer tree and use the brushes to paint trees in the scene

Add a grass detail to the Terrain window

Use the brush to paint in the grass textures

Add and configure a water Prefab to the scene to finish it off

If you went above and beyond in the Introduction to Terrain Editor live session or just by working on this project on your own, please submit a screenshot or video of your project here! 

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Introduction to Terrain Editor - Assets.zip

This project covers the basics of Unity’s Terrain tool, the project demonstrates sculpting terrains, painting textures, adding trees and models, as well as details such as grass. In addition to the terrain tool, the project takes advantage of Unity’s standard assets to add water and speed tree assets to the scene. 

2019.4

Introduction to Terrain Editor

All content in this course uses:

All content in this course uses:

Unity Version 2019.4