Desert & Dunes is part of the StampIT! Collection, a set of high resolution 4K heightmap stamps and brushes which can be used to stamp features and entire heightmaps on the Unity terrain.
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This is a paid asset, but now you can download the “Desert & Dunes – StampIT!” for FREE. Please keep in mind that this package is provided only for learning purposes or to test before buying the product, NOT FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.
Desert & Dunes – StampIT! v2.1.0
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Description
Desert & Dunes as part of the StampIT! Collection consists of 20 high quality textures in stunning 4K resolution. These heightmap textures can be used as brushes with the Unity terrain tools in order to paint features on your Unity terrain. Or you could use these heightmap textures in other assets like Atlas, Map Magic 2, Gaia, etc.
The asset consists of the heightmaps and the brush presets, the terrain textures are not included.
You can see a preview of the Stamps in the Package Content tab.
FREE Upgrades
The community made requests about additional stamps over time. Since the support of you guys is so awesome, you’ll get these as a FREE upgrade with this asset:
Dune Shapes – StampIT!
Sand Covered Desert Rocks – StampIT!
Showcase Video
The video shows an example about how to use the terrain stamps and apply terrain texture using the free Substance 3D for Unity plugin.
Please check out the youtube video description about all the assets that were used to achieve this look combined with the heightmap. Most notably:
* MicroSplat – Texture Clusters
to achieve removal of otherwise visible terrain texture tiling
* MicroSplat – Wind and Glitter
to have wind flow along the dunes
* Substance 3D for Unity
for creating a sand texture from a substance
* Stylized Sand Uniform by Robert Myśliwski
the sand substance which was used to create the sand texture
Another recommendation for sand textures are the ground textures in NatureManufacture’s R.A.M – River Auto Material.
MicroVerse Compatibility
This collection of heightmaps is compatible with MicroVerse and contains presets which allow you to conveniently drag the height stamps into MicroVerse directly from the Content Browser.
Stamping
Stamping features on the terrain is a process which is supported by Unity out of the box. Simply put stamping is blending of various textures with each other. This process has been existing for a very long time and has been used in various applications, most notably image processing applications like Photoshop, Krita, Gimp, you name it.
Unity provides a very convenient means to blend those images together with their built-in terrain tools. The Unity terrain tools provide an editor with a brush preview which allows you to adjust a stamp in detail before you apply it.
For an even better experience the free Unity Terrain Tools package which can be installed in addition to the built-in tools via Package Manager is an excellent choice. It extends the terrain tools palette with even more tools which allow you to fine tune your stamped terrain to achieve the look of your personal artistic preference.
World Creator
In case you need complete terrains imported into Unity including textures, then the awesome World Creator is a preferred application. Highly recommended!
Technical details
In order to learn more about the brushes please visit the official Unity documentation about Brushes and in particular the information about Stamping.
