{"id":151,"date":"2008-07-04T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-07-04T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T16:24:09","slug":"version-2-of-world-machine-now-available-for-procedural-landscape-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/04\/version-2-of-world-machine-now-available-for-procedural-landscape-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 2 of World Machine Now Available for Procedural Landscape Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/WorldMachine2a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"world machine 3d environment\" width=\"501\" height=\"145\" style=\"margin-bottom:12px;\"\/><\/a>\n<p>\nIt was almost exactly a year ago that I discovered Stephen Schmitt&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Machine<\/a><\/em>, a procedural generator for 3D terrain. It&#8217;s a wonderful product. He&#8217;d already been at work for quite some time on the 2.0 version of this powerful piece of software and today I find that he&#8217;s just released it at last.\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/WorldMachine2b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"world machine landscape\"  width=\"152\" height=\"376\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;margin-right:-25px;\" \/><\/a>\nMy own upgrade copy isn&#8217;t here yet &#8211; here are some gallery images from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>World Machine<\/em><\/a> site. Some of the new features I&#8217;ve been following on his blog include realistic beachfront erosion and a method for generating occlusion maps for the terrain &#8211; that, and some other new things he&#8217;s been working on, should be a big help in masking out different types of materials to appear selectively on the landscape. In fact the new version will even render out a color map, based on the terrain shape, though I&#8217;m thinking that better methods for creating masks is more in my line.\n<\/p><p>\nAnyway, as I say I haven&#8217;t been able to play with the new version yet, but based on the old one I think it&#8217;s going to be a terrific tool. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go look<\/a>!\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was almost exactly a year ago that I discovered Stephen Schmitt&#8217;s World Machine, a procedural generator for 3D terrain. It&#8217;s a wonderful product. He&#8217;d already been at work for quite some time on the 2.0 version of this powerful piece of software and today I find that he&#8217;s just released it at last. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}