Terragen Good alternative? YES NO

Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is already capable of near-photorealistic...

Freemium Mac Windows

Vue Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Commercial Mac Windows

World Machine Good alternative? YES NO

World Machine is a proven terrain generation solution for artists, game developers, visual effects studios and other visualization professionals

Freemium Windows

Bryce Good alternative? YES NO

Bryce is an award winning, fun, feature-packed 3D modeling and animation package designed to allow new users to quickly create and render stunning 3D environments. Bryce...

Commercial Mac Windows

Picogen Good alternative? YES NO

A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic...

Free Open Source Windows Linux

• Discontinued No recent releases since 2010. See https://code.google.com/archive/p/picogen/downloads

Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator YES NO

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...

Free Windows

Geomorph Good alternative? YES NO

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....

Free Open Source Linux

EarthSculptor Good alternative? YES NO

EarthSculptor is a realtime terrain height-map editor and paint program featuring an easy to use interface designed exclusively for rapid development of 3D landscapes...

Freemium Windows

PnP TerrainCreator Good alternative? YES NO

PnP TerrainCreator is a highly integrated tool for large scale terrain creation. Featuring manual as well as automated/randomized terrain generation including...

Freemium Windows

Visual Nature Studio Good alternative? YES NO

Visual Nature Studio 3's redesigned interface makes creating complex scenes easier than ever before! Additionally, faster rendering of animations along with still...

Commercial Windows

DreamScape Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Commercial Windows Autodesk 3ds Max

Acropora Good alternative? YES NO

Voxelogic develops voxel-based modeling tools for terrains as well as 3D objects. Acropora is a procedural voxel modeler for creating complex, organic mesh topologies...

Commercial Windows

Graphite Good alternative? YES NO

Graphite is Quad Software reference renderer for Grome editor. Definition: Middleware reference outdoor renderer, 100% integrated with Grome pipelines, directly from...

Freemium Windows

Grome Good alternative? YES NO

Grome is a game level authoring tool used by professional game developers and companies from 3D simulation industry. Continuous development on the existing proven...

Commercial Windows

Natural Scene Designer Alternative?  YES NO

Natural Creative Power that's Easy To Use Natural Graphics is the developer of Natural Scene Designer -- a powerful yet easy to use 3D program which lets you...

Commercial Mac Windows