Scenery generator

Basic elements of landscapes created by scenery generators include terrain, water, foliage, and clouds.

Common techniques include Simplex noise, fractals, or the diamond-square algorithm, which can generate 2-dimensional heightmaps.

For example World Creator allows for terrain sculpting which uses a similar brush system as Photoshop and allows to enhance it additionally with its procedural techniques such as erosion, sediments, and more.

[citation needed] Other tools in the World Creator program include terrain stamping, which allows you to import elevation maps and use them as a base.

Typically the models used for the placement objects are the same as to lessen the amount of work that would be done if the user was to create a multitude of different trees.

For example, Industrial Light & Magic used E-on Vue to create the fictional environments for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

In the case of animated movies such as Kung Fu Panda, the raw generation is assisted by hand-painting to accentuate subtle details.

[citation needed] With recent developments neural networks can be built to create or texture the terrain based on previously suggested artwork or heightmap data.