Generating natural-looking terrain from a few known peaks

[jeremydouglass]

Applying Perlin noise to intersecting cones isn’t going to get you the features you want. Try hydraulic erosion @jb4x @solub :

Generating terrain with hydraulic erosion

Hi, After watching that video: Coding Adventure: Hydraulic Erosion - YouTube And reading that paper: https://www.firespark.de/resources/downloads/implementation%20of%20a%20methode%20for%20hydraulic%20erosion.pdf I decided to take a go at generated terrain using hydraulic erosion. The code below definitively gives some results although they are not completely as expected. Here some before/after pictures: [image] To play with the code, just hit play, zoom a bit with the middle mouse button…