The Visual Engine | Terrain Elements Module

⚠ Requirements

The latest version of the Vegetation Engine is required for the module to work!

The Vegetation Engine is a set of high-quality shaders and tools designed to unify 3rd party vegetation under the same system. Enable high-quality wind motion, interaction, seasons, wetness, subsurface, height-based blending, etc. for all vegetation assets with Standard, Universal, or HD Render Pipeline!

○ Overview

The Vegetation Engine • Terrain Elements Module is a set of element shaders designed to control the vegetation color, size, overlay, leaves, wetness, and wind power for each individual painted terrain layer, based on splat maps.

The Vegetation Engine • Terrain Elements Module works with any terrain painting system capable of generation or exporting splat maps, such as the Unity Terrain or MicroSplat.

○ Compatibility

Terrain Elements supports the following Render Pipelines:

✓ Standard Render Pipeline 2021.3+

✓ Universal Render Pipeline 2021.3+ / 2022.3+ / 2023.3+

✓ HD Render Pipeline 2021.3+ / 2022.3+ / 2023.3+

Terrain Elements has integration with the following 3rd party tools:

✓ Amplify Shader Editor - Full shader editing support

Terrain Elements supports the following modules:

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Amplify Impostors Module

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Mobile Shaders

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Polygonal Shaders

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Terrain Details Module

○ Features

✓ 16 terrain layers supported

✓ Demo and full source included

✓ Colors Elements: Color

✓ Extras Elements: Emissive, Wetness, Overlay, Alpha

✓ Motion Elements: Wind Power

✓ Vertex Elements: Size Fade

○ More Assets

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Unified shaders for any asset

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Amplify Impostors Module

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Mobile Shaders Module

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Polygonal Shaders Module

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Terrain Details Module

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Terrain Blanket Module | NEW

✓ The Vegetation Engine • Terrain Shaders Module | NEW

✓ Atmospheric Height Fog • Optimized fog for consoles, mobile, and VR

✓ Polyverse Skies • Low poly skybox shaders

✓ Free Skybox Shader • Cubemap Extended shader