The Best 22 World Construction Set Alternatives

  • Terragen

    Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows

  • Vue

    Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse clicks. Vue Pioneer is a great way to learn 3D.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Bryce

    Bryce is an award winning, fun, feature-packed 3D modeling and animation package designed to allow new users to quickly create and render stunning 3D environments.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • World Machine

    World Machine is a proven terrain generation solution for artists, game developers, visual effects studios and other visualization professionals

    Freemium Windows

  • Picogen

    A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator

    Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator is a relatively new terrain generator that takes a step in a completely different direction. Unlike traditional generators where the...

    Free Windows

  • Geomorph

    Geomorph is a height field generator and editor for the Linux operating system. A height field is a kind of topographic map. It is a 2D projection of a 3D landscape....

    Free Open Source Linux

  • EarthSculptor

    EarthSculptor is a realtime terrain height-map editor and paint program featuring an easy to use interface designed exclusively for rapid development of 3D landscapes...

    Freemium Windows

  • PnP TerrainCreator

    PnP TerrainCreator is a highly integrated tool for large scale terrain creation. Featuring manual as well as automated/randomized terrain generation including...

    Freemium Windows

  • Visual Nature Studio

    Visual Nature Studio 3's redesigned interface makes creating complex scenes easier than ever before! Additionally, faster rendering of animations along with still...

    Commercial Windows

  • DreamScape

    DreamScape is sophisticated set of 3DS MAX plug-ins for creating and rendering realistic landscapes, seascapes, skies, clouds, outdoor lighting and more. In contrast to...

    Commercial Windows Autodesk 3ds Max

  • Acropora

    Voxelogic develops voxel-based modeling tools for terrains as well as 3D objects. Acropora is a procedural voxel modeler for creating complex, organic mesh topologies...

    Commercial Windows

  • Graphite

    Graphite is Quad Software reference renderer for Grome editor. Definition: Middleware reference outdoor renderer, 100% integrated with Grome pipelines, directly from...

    Freemium Windows

  • Grome

    Grome is a game level authoring tool used by professional game developers and companies from 3D simulation industry. Continuous development on the existing proven...

    Commercial Windows

  • Natural Scene Designer

    Natural Creative Power that's Easy To Use Natural Graphics is the developer of Natural Scene Designer -- a powerful yet easy to use 3D program which lets you...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Outerra

    Outerra Engine is a global world rendering engine capable of seamless real time rendering of planets from space down to centimeter details on the surface. It can use...

    Commercial Windows

  • VizTerra

    VizTerra is fast, powerful 3D Professional Hardscaping and Landscaping design software. VizTerra gives you the power to quickly and easily design incredibly detailed...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • VistaPro Renderer

    Vistapro Renderer has the ability to add oceans, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, clouds, snow, haze, trees, shrubs and buildings. The creation of computer generated, 3D...

    Commercial Windows

  • WorldBuilder

    WorldBuilder, a stand-alone scene builder and renderer with unsurpassed compatibly with Max, Maya, LightWave, and SoftImage, is the premier tool for laying out and...

    Commercial Windows