Visual3D Game Engine provides a robust terrain system which enables you to build multiple infinitely large custom and real world terrain environments anywhere on the globe with easy to use visual tools.

Terrain System Features

• Support for Real Earth Locations:
  Import real world terrain data and render it in 3D. Support for DTED, ESRI, Topographic data, and LCC imagery.
• No Size Limits:
  Build terrain without size limits.
• Move from Outerspace to Ground Level:
  Visual3D Game Engine supports the ability to build and view terrain anywhere on earth through a Google Earth style interface that allows you to zoom from outerspace to ground level seamlessly.
• Stream Terrain Data Remotely:
  Store terrain data on a remote server and stream it to clients anywhere in the world just in time.
• Real-time Terrain Deformation:
  Support for realistic realtime terrain deformations such as craters, excavations, erosions, and more.
• Support for Procedural Content:
  Support for procedural rendering of land-cover features such as trees, river and road networks, buildings, terrain textures, and more based upon landcover maps or user-defined scripts and algorithms.
• Multiple Levels of Detail:
  Move through resolutions from 100km to 1m that seamlessly blend together.
• Urban Area and Building Generation:
  Automatically create buildings from satellite imagery of urban areas.
• GIS Data:
  Load GIS Data and apply it onto your world
• Support For Import/Export of Multiple Terrain Data Formats:
  • 3D Terrain — DTED, DBDB5
  • Raster maps — GeoTiff, CADRG, .bmp, .png, .jpeg, etc.
  • Vector data — DFAD, ESRI shapefiles, .dfd

Build Real World Terrains using Visual3D Game Engine Terrain Editor™

Features:

• Build Terrain on a Global Scale:
  Terrain Editor allows you to build custom terrain environments anywhere on the globe with Terrain Editor's google-map style interface. Build multiple environments across the globe and then manage and command them with a tool that lets you zoom from space level all the way down to 1m resolution.
• Terrain Editor:
  Modify terrain heights and textures and place landcover features visually. Quickly build your desired landscapes with a visual object placement tool that allows you to quickly place trees, brush, buildings and other similar features.
• Procedural Feature Generation:
  Procedurally generate roads, rivers, water systems, forests, urban areas and more with custom procedural scripts that can be directly edited via Terrain Editor.
• Build your Simulation in Tandem:
  Since Terrain Editor is part of the Visual3D Game Engine toolset, you can switch back and forth between Earthbuilder and other Visual3D Game Engine design tools in a single session.