Fractal Terrains

Want to create an entire world in under five minutes? Welcome to FT. Want to export that world as an image, animation, icosahedral, VRML, or CC2 file? Welcome to FT. Want to generate maps from real world Earth data? Welcome to FT.

Worlds can take so long to map. Coming up with a reasonable world in the midst of a sci-fi gaming session involves either drawing upon generic stock, or risking the inaccurate. Drawing realistic global maps can take hours - days even. Not any more.

For the fastest world generation, simply click the Next World icon. A fractal-filled moment later, FT delivers you an entire world - complete with climate, rainfall and temperature zones. Not the the world you imagined? No problem, just click the icon again, and again, and again.

But with FT you can be even more God-like. Starting from a random world, real-Earth data, or a flat plain if you prefer, you can "paint" altitude or climate adjustments to suit your whim. You can raise mountains from nothing and consign entire continents to the deep. FT's fractal calculations apply your changes with deft realism, requiring minimum artistic skill from you.

If that's not enough, you can get right into the FT's world generation settings to adjust coloration, percentage water, land sizes, maximum and minimum heights, world circumference, axis inclination, roughness, and more.

You have complete control over your view of the world. You can rotate to any point and zoom in to any level of detail. FT can display the world in any of 13 map projections, including Mercator, Gnomonic, Mollweide and Orthographic. To help navigation you can apply a grid to the surface, with lines of longitude and latitude spaced to your preference.

FT works stand-alone, or as an add-on to CC2. If you've got CC2, you can export a single map of your whole creation, or multiple map tiles of increasing detail. The maps are linked with clickable hotspots, allowing you to create an in depth atlas-style in one fell stroke.