Features of Artifex Terra 3D

Explore the powerful features of Artifex Terra 3D, designed to make terrain creation easy, precise, and visually stunning. With intuitive tools, real-time adjustments, and advanced brush control, Artifex Terra 3D puts a whole world of 3D landscape design at your fingertips.

1. Advanced Terrain Editing

Create realistic landscapes with our flexible and user-friendly editing tools.

  • Lower, Raise, and Flatten Tools: Shape terrain to your specifications by raising hills, flattening surfaces, or creating valleys with ease.
  • Blur and Smooth: Achieve natural terrain transitions and softened edges for seamless environmental blending.
  • Specialized Brushes: Use unique brushes, such as Boil, Plane, and Flatblur, to add subtle details and contours to your designs.

Screenshot and video demo showing the tools in action.

2. Dynamic Texturing and Splatting

Bring depth to your scenes with Artifex Terra 3D’s advanced texturing options.

  • Multi-layer Splatting: Paint with up to 9 unique textures on the same terrain, allowing for complex textures and detailed terrain appearance.
  • Triplanar Texturing: Textures blend seamlessly, maintaining realism across different angles and steep slopes.
  • Real-time Adjustments: Tweak RGB values, brightness, contrast, and saturation on-the-fly, so you can see your changes immediately.

Screenshot and video demo of texture layers in use.

3. Color Layers and Custom Shading

Add life to your landscapes with rich color control.

  • 8 Extra Color Layers: Customize colors with multiple layers, each rendered into a single texture slot for high performance.
  • Layered Painting: Easily blend colors and textures to achieve depth, highlights, and shadow effects that add realism to your work.
  • Dynamic Lighting: Artifex Terra 3D supports dynamic light sources, allowing you to preview scenes under different lighting conditions.

Screenshot of layered color effects.

4. High-Performance 3D Brush System

Achieve intricate detail with the Artifex Terra 3D brush-centric approach.

  • Brush Variety: Choose from 10 brushes and create unlimited custom brushes tailored to your project.
  • Pressure Sensitivity: Fully compatible with Wacom and other pressure-sensitive tablets, giving artists full control over brush strokes.
  • Responsive Controls: Designed to feel intuitive and efficient for quick, precise adjustments.

Short demo showcasing brush techniques with a graphic tablet.

5. Built-In Real-Time Lighting and Shadow Mapping

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Enhance the realism of your landscapes with Artifex Terra 3D’s dynamic lighting.

  • Automatic Lightmap Generation: Generate lightmaps automatically to add natural shadows and highlights across terrains.
  • Normal Mapping Support: Integrate details into textures, creating fine shadows and realistic depth without affecting performance.

Screenshot of normal mapping and shadow details.

6. Model Packs and Object Integration

Populate your scenes with an extensive library of ready-to-use assets.

  • Library of Trees, Plants, and Buildings: Drag-and-drop trees, shrubs, rocks, and buildings directly into your landscape.
  • Customizable Asset Placement: Fine-tune object placement and alignment to create detailed and realistic environments.
  • Backblending Textures: Achieve seamless blending by integrating textures without repetitive patterns.

Screenshot showing asset placement and model packs.

7. Open Source Integration and Developer Support

Artifex Terra 3D is built with developers in mind, supporting open-source integration.

  • Ogre3D Compatibility: The open-source scene loader class allows for easy integration with Ogre3D projects.
  • C++ Scene-Loader Class: Simple integration with game development workflows.
  • SQLite Storage System: Efficient and structured storage for terrain data, project files, and custom objects.

Link to integration resources and developer documentation.

8. Real-Time Animation and Special Effects

Add interactive elements to your environment with animated details.

  • Paintable Animated Mesh Grass: Apply animated grass textures directly to the terrain for added realism.
  • Transparent Textures: Support for transparency lets you create water bodies, glass, and other semi-transparent surfaces.

Video demo of animated grass and transparent textures.