How do you get realistic colors/textures over the terrain? I can color it and I can put an image overlay, but is there any good way to render something like what you see in the preview (grass growing where it would, rock where it would be, snow where it would land, etc.). I'm still kind of new to it.

And how do you make an animation?

-Dr. K

How do you get realistic colors/textures over the terrain? I can color it and I can put an image overlay, but is there any good way to render something like what you see in the preview (grass growing where it would, rock where it would be, snow where it would land, etc.). I'm still kind of new to it.

 

And how do you make an animation?

 

-Dr. K

Lots and lots and lots of layers in the surface map. Mess with the height settings(under Advanced Distribution in the edit window).

Pretty sure there's a plugin on the site that'll help with animating, basically you move the camera slightly for each frame, and render it. Takes ages.