New Zealand Southern Lakes & Ranges Real-World Terrains 260 km²

• Heightmap files - 46 PNGs, 16-bit, 2017 x 2017 px, 8 m per pixel, 16.13 km per side
• Relief - 614 m to 1,981 m per map
• Build - every map as one Unity terrain of 2049 samples, exact pixel values, holes on the unused strip
• Height resolution - 18.8 mm to 60.5 mm per level
• Demo - Long Southern Lake, Lake and Island and Schist Uplands - 9 scenes, 3 prefabs, lake water
• Ground layers - 8 layers + shared ones; 4K albedo/smoothness, normal and mask
• Ground painter - snow and bush lines, sun side, pasture, gravel, scree and lake settings; any terrain, earlier paint restorable
• Terrain shaders - stochastic hex tiling, steep-face projection, tussock tufts, fine relief; Built-in, URP, HDRP
• Editor windows - Terrain Builder, Project Setup, New Zealand Ground; PDF manual
• Supported - Unity 2022.3 and above

▶ Full 4K video showcase: https://youtu.be/QrcGJ7ACveo

Southern lakes and ranges of New Zealand - 46 maps of glacial lakes, schist uplands and tussock country

Long glacial lakes between steep ranges, flat-topped schist uplands, tussock-covered slopes and wide river basins. From real-world elevation data (DEM) at 8 m per pixel; each map covers 16 x 16 km (260 km²) with 614 m to 1,981 m of relief, and one height level is 18.8 to 60.5 mm.

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✦ INCLUDED

• 46 lake and range heightmaps - 16-bit PNG, 2017 x 2017 px, north up
• Unity terrains from the exact pixels - one terrain of 2049 samples per map, unused edge strip cut with terrain holes
• Long Southern Lake, Lake and Island, Schist Uplands - 9 demo scenes across Built-in, URP and HDRP, with clear lake water
• One-click ground painter - the same ground on all 46 maps - or on terrains of your own

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✦ TUSSOCK DOWN TO THE SHORE

• Tussock grassland - bunch-grass tufts near the camera, green on the shaded south faces and a little drier on the sunny ones
• Deep blue-green lakes - lakes found in the elevation data, soft shorelines, gravel lake beds
• Scree and snow - scree on the steepest faces, the last spring snow on the high tops
• River flats - grey gravel and pasture on the wide valley floors

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✦ PERFORMANCE

• Player builds at 3840 x 2160 - HDRP 90-134 FPS · URP 84-158 FPS · Built-in 120-286 FPS on an RTX 3090, no upscaling

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✦ UNITY 2022.3 AND ABOVE

Built-in, URP and HDRP in one download; Project Setup enables terrain holes. Built-in demo levels have no post-processing.

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✦ IDEAS

Open-world driving and boating games, adventure and fishing games, walking simulators and scenic film backdrops.

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✦ OTHER LANDSCAPES OF NEW ZEALAND

• Volcanic Plateau - Ruapehu, Taranaki and lava domes - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/428788
• Ranges & Hill Country - North Island ranges - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/428790
• Southern Alps - peaks, screes and braided rivers - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/428792