Getting Started with Terrain Tools in Unity Part 3: Details, Wind and Water

Jared Amlin
Nerd For Tech
5 min readFeb 5, 2022

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Welcome to the final installment this series on using Unity’s amazing Terrain tools. There are a few awesome features that aren’t supported in the HDRP, so I wanted to make sure to cover those here using the URP.

I made a new URP project and then put together a new scene based on what was learned in the past two articles. The atmosphere on this alien planet is unknown, so our player capsule is taking precautions with this space helmet.

Let’s use the flower brush to Paint Details into the game scene.

Press the Edit Details button, and then select the Add Grass Texture option.

Click the disk icon in the Detail Texture option to bring up a list of available textures. I grabbed some free grass textures from the Unity asset store. Before painting…

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Jared Amlin
Nerd For Tech

I am an artist and musician, that is currently diving headfirst into game development with C# and Unity3D.