Easy environment design with Unity Terrain features
Blog post from LogRocket
Unity Terrain is a comprehensive tool within Unity for creating and modifying terrain in game environments, utilizing height maps to shape landscapes with features such as elevations and craters. It offers a variety of functionalities through its Terrain Toolbar, including sculpting, painting, and adding environmental details like trees and grass, while managing optimization techniques to enhance performance. Users can import real-world height maps for terrain creation and adjust various settings like mesh resolution and texture resolutions to fine-tune the terrain's appearance. The tool supports the addition of vegetation and rocks with options to use custom prefabs, while also allowing for manual adjustments to ambient occlusion to improve lighting realism. Additional visual enhancements can be achieved through skyboxes and post-processing effects, which help unify the scene and elevate its aesthetic quality.