Terrain Engine

Unity’s Terrain system allows you to add vast landscapes to your game. At runtime, Terrain renderingThe process of drawing graphics to the screen (or to a render texture). By default, the main camera in Unity renders its view to the screen. More info
See in Glossary is highly optimized for efficiency. The Unity Editor provides a selection of tools to create Terrain quickly and easily. This section explains the various options available for Terrain, and how to make use of them.

Additional resources

• 2018.3 Terrain Update: Getting Started blog post
• Terrain section of the Unity Knowledge Base
• World Building forum

• 2019–04–17 Page amended with no editorial review

• Moved links to additional resources section