Adding Noise to Terrain

To create terrain with added noise, perform the following tasks:

  1. Select Activate terrain editing () to enable terrain editing within the Design View.
  2. Within the Terrain Editor window, click Noise.
  3. Optionally, specify a custom brush radius, a brush softness, a number of features, the feature scale, a number of octaves for the features, and the persistence of the features:
  4. To create noisy terrain: Within the Design View, position the cursor where you want noisy terrain and left-click. You can also left-click and drag to define areas of noisy terrain.

 

The following figure shows some noisy terrain using the default settings.