Introduction to World Machine

This lecture covers the basic user interface from moving and zooming with the mouse, to describing the options and panels that are available, opening projects, preferences, etc.

This lecture covers the view where you'll do the most work. You'll drop nodes, connect them, select them, and modify their properties. You'll learn what outputs, inputs, masks, and parameters are. You'll learn how to modify the preview color, change the lighting, freeze node previews, and more.

Render your terrain in full detail by watching this lecture. You will grasp the relationship and importance of the extents and heightfield resolution which is vital in achieving a believable terrain.

Generators are where your terrain is born. We'll cover generators and what options are available for each.

Instead of rolling the dice on getting the look you want, the Layout Generator allows you to draw shapes with tons of options, making it one of the most powerful tools in World Machine.

Advanced Fractal Perlin is a commonly used and flexible noise generator, so it deserves special attention. We'll cover its parameters to help you understand it all.

Blend terrains, masks, and colors using the Combiners. You'll get much use out of these, so this lecture is quite important. Combiners let you blend with many different blend modes similar to those in Photoshop.

Filters are the workhorses in World Machine. Once you use a generator, you'll need filters to manipulate the terrain profile to get the shapes you need, often in sequence. This video covers them all.

Give your terrain some age by eroding it using several very special devices.

You may have made a terrain and colored it, but how do you export the data? This lecture will cover what you need to know.

Selectors enable you to mask areas of the terrain to help you perform blending tasks. Let's see what they can do here.

Generate normal maps, splat maps, split RGB channels, Colorize by gradient remapping.. Converters do all this.

Parameters and flow show off the parameterization capabilities of World Machine. Once you being making macros, you'll see how useful this can be.

The Tools tab has some UI and graph workflow options for you to consider.

Learn about the extents size and heightfield resolution in this lecture.

Let's being to make the shape of our new terrain by using a variety of masking techniques and generators.

We'll ensure the borders of our terrain are generally flat by blending the mountain with a ground. The ground will be created in a special way using high pass, showcasing what a procedural workflow can do.

World Machine isn't just for terrains. Here we'll add small rocks to our terrain to help create a sense of scale.

World Machine isn't just for heightfields. We'll examine many different ways of coloring your terrain.

Macros allow you to modularize your heightfield development and are a crucial part of the workflow. They're also very easy to make.

I've taken the terrain and colored it using various methods, all of which I'll cover here.

Textures can be applied using the File Input node, then manipulated like any other bitmap in the Device View.

Let's construct a splat map to export into a game engine. What they are and how to make them are covered in this lecture.

It's easy to get your terrain from World Machine into Unity. This lecture shows you the simple steps involved.

Export the heightfield, setup the correct scale and layer materials, all for the Unreal Engine.

There is more to learn from your installation of World Machine. Special scenes are included, so be sure to check them out.