The new version of 3DVIA Studio has released! The software update contains several new features, including a terrain editor and customizable environmental effects, enabling 3DVIA.com users to build and publish realistic 3D worlds faster than ever. Read below to learn about each new feature in detail.

Terrain Editor

Use the newly added terrain editor to generate dynamic terrain, as shown in the video above.

Terrain Editor Features

• All-in-One: edit and manipulate terrain in one panel.
• Height Map Generation: generate terrain with simple effects and erosion using eight to 32-bit height maps. Also, manually apply erosion.
• Brushes: built-in, high quality brushes. Plus the ability to import custom brushes.
• Level of Detail: up to 4096 x 4096
• Procedural Materials: using material layers, paint materials onto the terrain. Rock layers with tri-linear projection, ground layers and high-detail textures with no tiling effect supporting an infinite number of painted material layers.
• Custom Maps: diffuse maps, normal maps, splat mask maps, as well as custom maps from external terrain generation tools like World Machine.
• Advanced Real-Time Rendering: optimized run-time rendering, displacement map, level of detail, tiles and deferred shading support.

Learn how to use the terrain editor with the following tutorial.

Environmental Effects

Drag and drop customizable skies, water systems and other environmental effects to build a world around your terrain. Below is a list of the various environmental effects at your disposal in the updated 3DVIA Studio.

Sky: a fully customizable, drag and drop sky environment. This effect includes a time of day manager, light scatter effect and high dynamic ranger (HDR) rendering.

Water: customizable water effect with realistic water behavior, surf, optimized height map system and projective grid computed on GPU. This effect is available in VSL through the vkWaterGenerator class, but will be made into a drag and drop effect soon.

Pro Camera Effects: camera effects that add bloom, depth of field and high dynamic range (HDR) rendering.

Pathfinding Enhancements

Allow computer-controlled characters to easily navigate highly detailed environments with automatically generated navigation meshes and material boundaries.

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