Visual Nature Studio Alternatives

Visual Nature Studio is described as '3D terrain modeling software offering photorealistic landscapes, rapid animation rendering, CAD and GIS import, and scene editing for site visualization' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Visual Nature Studio for Windows, Mac, Linux, Autodesk 3ds Max and Steam. The best Visual Nature Studio alternative is Vue, which is free. Other great apps like Visual Nature Studio are Infinigen, Terragen, World Machine and Gaea.

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  1. Vue icon
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    Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. Infinigen icon
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    Infinigen is a procedural generator that creates everything entirely from randomized mathematical rules, including all shapes and materials, from macro structures to micro details. Infinigen can create unlimited variations.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. Terragen icon
     33 likes

    Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations.

    26 Terragen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. World Machine icon
     9 likes

    World Machine is a powerful terrain generation software used by game developers, visual effects artists, and independent creators to create realistic 3D landscapes and terrains.

    29 World Machine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Gaea icon
     1 like

    Node based heightfield terrain and texture generation program.

    28 Gaea alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Geomorph icon
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    Geomorph is a height field generator and editor for the Linux operating system.

    A height field is a kind of topographic map. It is a 2D projection of a 3D landscape.

    Geomorph generates square images and shows a 3D preview of the resulting landscape. The resulting 2D image can.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Picogen icon
     4 likes

    A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic day/night-illumination and detailed plant populations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator is a relatively new terrain generator that takes a step in a completely different direction. Unlike traditional generators where the user must depend solely on the generators generation abilities, this generator gives its users complete 3D...

    23 Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. DreamScape icon
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    DreamScape is sophisticated set of 3DS MAX plug-ins for creating and rendering realistic landscapes, seascapes, skies, clouds, outdoor lighting and more. In contrast to other terrain creation tools for 3DS MAX, DreamScape Terra uses new rendering technologies that occupy much...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Autodesk 3ds Max
     
  10. EarthSculptor icon
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    EarthSculptor is a realtime terrain height-map editor and paint program featuring an easy to use interface designed

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. PnP TerrainCreator is a highly integrated tool for large scale terrain creation. Featuring manual as well as automated/randomized terrain generation including heightmaps, texturing, vegetation, seas and rivers, static objects and environmental sounds enabeling you to build a...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Acropora icon
     2 likes

    Voxelogic develops voxel-based modeling tools for terrains as well as 3D objects.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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