World Machine Alternatives

Terragen

Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is already capable of near-photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation. Terragen has been used in a variety of commercial applications including film, television and music videos, games and multimedia, books, magazines and print advertisements.

Features:

• Data export/import
• Mounting WebDav folders

Vue

Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse clicks. Vue Pioneer is a great way to learn 3D. It's so easy to use that you'll be composing amazing 3D landscapes in no time. There is a commercial version available.

Features:

• 3D modelling
• Vfx

Geomorph

Geomorph is a height field generator and editor for the Linux operating system. A height field is a kind of topographic map. It is a 2D projection of a 3D landscape. Geomorph generates square images and shows a 3D preview of the resulting landscape. The resulting 2D image can be processed with a tool like Povray for rendering the landscape. Geomorph actually exists in an alpha stage, localized in French, English and German. Here are some screenshots. It is generally stable.

Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator

Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator is a relatively new terrain generator that takes a step in a completely different direction. Unlike traditional generators where the user must depend solely on the generators generation abilities, this generator gives its users complete 3D control over what their terrain looks like. Users start off with a flat piece of landscape, then add to it with one, or a combination of many powerful generation options.

Picogen

A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic day/night-illumination and detailed plant populations.

DreamScape

DreamScape is sophisticated set of 3DS MAX plug-ins for creating and rendering realistic landscapes, seascapes, skies, clouds, outdoor lighting and more. In contrast to other terrain creation tools for 3DS MAX, DreamScape Terra uses new rendering technologies that occupy much less of your computers memory (RAM) making it possible to render large detailed terrains on even a modest system.

PnP TerrainCreator

PnP TerrainCreator is a highly integrated tool for large scale terrain creation. Featuring manual as well as automated/randomized terrain generation including heightmaps, texturing, vegetation, seas and rivers, static objects and environmental sounds enabeling you to build a complete diversified terrain with just one tool.

Visual Nature Studio

Visual Nature Studio 3's redesigned interface makes creating complex scenes easier than ever before! Additionally, faster rendering of animations along with still shots guarantees faster delivery of final product. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a visualization may be the key to receiving government or public approval on a proposed project.

Terresculptor

Generate high resolution heightmaps for terrain generation.

World Creator

With a powerful array of creative tools and improved efficiency, real-time editing in the viewport, fully GPU powered procedural terrain and landscape generation, and more, World Creator makes terrain and landscape generation faster and more fun than ever before.

Features:

• 3D modelling
• Procedurally generated