Hi folks, this week I thought we’d make a simple terrain. We show a few new techniques:

1. Using a Displace modifier to distort a plane into something that looks like terrain
2. Creating a material that colours different parts of the terrain based on their height

Here’s the video:

Any comments or questions, feel free to leave them below.

The blender file can be downloaded from here.

Update:

After I posted the video, I modified the material a bit and I like the result more than the version in the video. If you want to try, modify the terrain material so it looks like this instead:

It varies the texture a lot more and looks very nice, especially on the snowy peaks.