Developed from long standing in-house tools, Geoscape3D combines the process of generating a virtual landscape and creating a realistic texture to map over that terrain.

• Generates Royalty-Free terrains and textures
• Export directly to Dark Basic terrain format for speedy integration into Dark Basic programs
• Simple to use GUI that speeds the process of creating landscapes
• Full undo / redo system
• Save the terrain, texture and settings to a project file for use later or for sending to another user
• Store up to 8 custom view points per project to allow instant navigation to areas of interest
• Multiple viewing options for the three dimensional view including wireframe, textured and shaded
• Customisable height and distance scales enable the user to work in "real world" units or to use the heightmap units
• Customisable water height for use with visualising islands

• Real-Time Terrain Editing Tools including build / dig / level / smooth / sharpen / noise tools
• 2d terrain view with lighting with instantaneous Visual Feedback with 3d view
• Automatic Terrain Generation with Presets to store generation settings for future use
• Variable grid size for the terrain

• Create a unique texture for the terrain with use of texturing layers
• Texturing layers combined using slope constraints, height constraints, weighting, and choice of blend function
• 3D preview of one or more texture layers
• Variable texture resolution
• Masking allows areas of the terrain to be textured with a different set of texture layers to the rest of the terrain.
• Import your own textures or create new textures.
• Export favourite sets of texture layers for use between projects.

• Create your own textures using the Texture Creator for instant use with the texturing layers
• Export created textures as bitmaps for use in other programs
• Presets to store automatic texture creation settings

• Import of Terrain data from bitmaps or RAW files
• Export of Texture data to DarkBASIC Professional compatible Matrix Data Files*
• Export of Terrain data as bitmap or .x file
• Export of Texture data as bitmap
• Plugin Architecture to enable custom import, export of terrain and texture data.  Heightmap plugins to allow custom modification of terrains.
• Context sensitive help

• Terrain editing directly in the 3d view window.
• Paint Texture Tool - allows users to paint directly on to the terrain in the 2d or the 3d views with configurable brushes and textures.
• Select Tool - a selection limits other tools to the selected areas. Drag and drop selected areas within the heightmap.
• Road Tool - create roads and paths through the landscape.
• Saved Point Groups - save a selections of points for re-use. The user can "play" tools on these points to edit terrain or alter masks. These combined with the road tool allows for excellent texturing of roads.
• Project Tree - shows the hierarchical structure of a project and allows quick navigation and editing of the various elements that make up the project.
• Windowed Mode - allows users to focus their editing on a sub-area of a very large heightmaps to increase editing speed.
• Multiple Heightmaps - edit multiple heightmaps in the same project with the main editor. Alter the mask layers quickly and easily. View mask textures.
• Heightmap Combination operations - combine two heightmaps together with a choice of operations, including add and subtract, average and replace.
• New Export options - export to 3DS mesh files and DirectX .X files.
• Mesh Optimisation - reduce the vertex count of the mesh before export, but maintain boundaries so the joins of meshes are seamless even when reduced.
• Single Point Edit - fine control allows access to individual height values in the heightmap.
• Improved texturing - increased speed and increased control over the lighting and shadowing effects. Output larger resolution textures.
• Improved Bitmap Creation - lighting option added to the create bitmap feature to allow even more textures to be created.
• Seamless Bitmap Creation - simple, easy and quick method to make textures seamless. Perfect for using digital photographs and other images in the Geoscape3d terrain texturing.

The 1.2 release sees a significant improvement in both functionality and user interface. Much care has been taken to increase the usability of the product with the main editor receiving a major overhaul. New functionality includes:

• load raster GIS data from various formats
• erosion tool - deform your terrain with fluvial or thermal erosion and then use the deposition map to texture your terrain
• Fixed rotate view mode
• terragen .ter file importer and exporter
• glacial and canyonising filters
• 3D Gamestudio HMP exporter
• Improved plugins
• Enhanced Select tool - add to current selection by holding the shift key - remove from current selection by holding the control key down. Selection shows on the 3d view.
• Tool marker now wraps to terrain in the 3d view
• New aspect constraint allows texture layers to be limited to certain directions of the terrain texture.
• new data entry component simplifies entering values
• custom terrain editing brushes - specify art style brushes for creating your terrain
• crop or extend terrains

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