Hills

Hills is a patch of rolling countryside you place in a scene like any other object: soft, rounded downland under grass, easing down to its base at the edges. The object's scale is the footprint, so it can be a small green mound beside a product or a stretch of country behind it.

How it works

The patch uses the same landscape model as the scene's endless terrain, cut to a footprint you control. For hills the ridges are almost entirely rounded off, and the shapes are bent so the slopes curve and branch the way real valleys do rather than looking like lumps of noise. Grass covers the low ground and the tops, and rock only shows where a bank turns steep.

Settings

• Shape and Ground: pick a landform such as Downland, Steppe, Moorland, Meadow valley or Tundra, and a ground such as Green hills, Dry grassland, Forest floor or Moorland.
• Size, Height, Ruggedness and Rock & snow: the quick sliders.
• Edge fade: how far in from the border the land eases down; 0 ends in a cliff.
• Landform and Textures tabs: every number, including Ridge Sharpness, Warp Strength and Erosion, and a real photographed texture for each ground layer.

Use it for

Countryside and park scenes, gentle dioramas, playful product stages, games and kids' worlds. Related: Mountains and Dunes.