UltraScenery – Realistic Landscape System [UD 2021-05-24]

UltraScenery is an advanced solution for creating highly detailed landscapes in DAZ Studio. UltraScenery builds upon the instancing technology of DAZ Studio to place 1000s of trees, plants, stones, etc – giving lifelike foliage or ground cover density without the overhead of needing millions of polygons.

UltraScenery creates landscapes upon a terrain mesh measuring 64 x 64 meters – large enough to give a sense of space and scale but small enough to enable adding the required density of instanced vegetation to portray realism.

UltraScenery uses a simple 4 step process to create scenes that will be familiar to users of UltraTrees.

1. Create a heightmap for the terrain

2. Choose a landscape feature (road, stream, pond, etc)

3. Choose an Ecology (the plants and other elements)

4. Build the Scene.

Randomize the terrain and the ecology, turn on or off different vegetation layers or adjust the water settings to create a landscape that is uniquely yours. UltraScenery – Realistic Landscape System helps you build your very own world!

Resolved Issues

2020-04-24 Updated:

Fixed very slow generation of instances in Studio 4.12

Fixed water absorption in Studio 4.12

Fixed misnamed normal map channel in terrain shader

Changed normal map to bump map on river stones

the script now remembers the selected camera

Added author and package params to JSON files for future filtering

2020-07-15 Updated

New water materials and settings tab

New ecology layers section on the build tab – users can now specify masks per layer

Slightly updated look’n’feel to the UI

Woodland 4 typo fix (previously uploaded as an update but not in store yet)

Instances are now grouped by layer instead of all being dumped together

2021-05-24 Updated

Backend change to allow for instances of props to be placed on the terrain in feature definition JSON files