New Zealand Ranges & Hill Country Real-World Terrains 260 km²

• Maps - 39 x 16-bit PNG heightmaps at 2017 x 2017 px; every map 16 km square (260 km²) at 8 m spacing
• Height span - 369 m to 1,377 m per map, minimum at 0
• Unity terrains - a single 2049-sample terrain per map, holes cut along the outer edge
• One height level - 11.3 mm on the lowest-relief map, 42.0 mm on the highest
• Demo content - 9 scenes (3 per pipeline) and 3 pipeline-independent prefabs
• Textures - eight 4K layers plus the shared ones: albedo/smoothness, normal, mask
• Ground - native bush to a bush line, tussock tops, hill pasture, rock on the steepest bluffs
• Rendering - anti-tiling terrain shaders, steep-face side projection, bush crowns and plane-mapped detail relief - Built-in, URP and HDRP
• Editor - Terrain Builder, Project Setup, New Zealand Ground (Paint Selected Terrains, Build and Paint); documentation as PDF
• Compatibility - Unity 2022.3 and above

▶ Full 4K video showcase: https://youtu.be/4zmtqlpodbU

39 maps of New Zealand's North Island ranges - bush-clad ridges, fault lines and green hill country, 260 km² per map

Steep greywacke ranges dissected by countless gullies, long fault ridges, deep river valleys and rolling hill country with terraced valley floors. Made from real-world elevation data (DEM) at 8 m per pixel; up to 1,377 m of relief on a single map, each map 16 km on a side.

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✦ WHAT YOU GET

• 39 heightmaps - 16-bit PNG at 2017 x 2017 px, from 369 m to 1,377 m of relief
• Exact Unity terrains - one terrain of 2049 samples per map with no resampling; one height level is 11.3 to 42.0 mm
• Bush-Clad Ranges, Range and Valley, Fault Ridge Hill Country - the demo levels, each in Built-in, URP and HDRP
• Verify - compares every built terrain with the original pixels

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✦ RANGES IN EARLY SUMMER

• Native bush to a sharp bush line - dark bush ground cover on the steep slopes and in the gullies, with crown relief near the camera
• Tussock tops - tussock grassland above the bush line, scree only below real bluffs
• Green hill country - pasture on the gentle low ground and valley floors, drier on the sunny north faces
• Paint any of the 39 maps - the New Zealand Ground painter gives every map the look of the demo levels, with one-click restore
• Clean steep faces - side projection keeps the ground sharp on steep slopes instead of stretched

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✦ MEASURED AT NATIVE 4K

• RTX 3090, player builds - HDRP 99-108 FPS · URP 95-120 FPS · Built-in 186-218 FPS

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✦ REQUIREMENTS

Unity 2022.3 and above, with Built-in, URP and HDRP content in one package. The Project Setup window enables terrain holes in your pipeline asset. The Built-in demo levels have no post-processing and look simpler than URP and HDRP.

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✦ GOOD FOR

Hiking and hunting games, open-world adventures, off-road and farm driving, flight training and nature documentaries.

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✦ THE NEW ZEALAND SERIES

• Volcanic Plateau - Ruapehu, Taranaki and the plateau - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/428788
• Southern Alps - the high mountains of the South Island - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/428792
• Southern Lakes & Ranges - lakes between tussock ranges - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/428794