Terrain Development Guide

Chapter 3: Optional Terrain Development

Coastlines

Although coastlines can be generated automatically using the ecology map and the blending feature, more detailed coastlines can be generated if they are created using a separate layer and transparency textures.

An example of a coastline map is provided below:

Coastline textures should use a alpha/alpha channel so that they merge well with any underlying ecological textures. Below is an example of how the coastline texture should be constructed, and how it can be merged with an ecology texture.