Starting off a small series of tutorials I take a look at some of the tools that help create terrain for 3D artists.

Aerialod is a superb lightweight application that packs a punch and comes with it's own render engine, letting import heightmap data and render amazing results rapidly.

it also gives the option to export out PLY which can be imported inside Blender

Download here: https://ephtracy.github.io/index.html...

Some of the Mapping Website for generating heightmap and textures.

OpenTopography
https://opentopography.org/

UK Data
https://environment.data.gov.uk/Defra...

Terrain Party
https://terrain.party/

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