Canyon

Terrain terrain.canyon

A winding canyon with a flat floor and stepped walls, cut into the input terrain (or into flat land at Surface height).

Output with default settings, rendered by LibreTerrain.

Inputs

Port	Type
In	Heightfield	Optional

Outputs

Port	Type
Out	Heightfield

Settings

Setting	Default	Range / options	Description
Direction	0 °	0 to 360 °	Direction the canyon runs in. 0° = +X (right).
Depth Mask port	450 m	0 to 10,000 m	Depth from the rim to the floor, in metres.
Width	1,800 m	1 to 100,000 m	Width from rim to rim, in metres.
Floor width	300 m	0 to 100,000 m	Width of the flat floor, in metres.
Steps	3	0 to 12	Number of ledges in the walls (hard rock layers). 0 = smooth walls.
Meander	900 m	0 to 100,000 m	How far the canyon winds from side to side, in metres.
Meander length	3,000 m	10 to 1,000,000 m	Distance between bends, in metres.
Roughness	0.5	0 to 1	Amount of irregular, noisy detail.
Surface height	800 m	-10,000 to 20,000 m	Height of the land the canyon is cut into, when no input is connected.
Position X	0 m	-1,000,000 to 1,000,000 m	East/west offset from the centre of the world, in metres.
Position Y	0 m	-1,000,000 to 1,000,000 m	North/south offset from the centre of the world, in metres.
Seed	0	0 to 999,999	Change for a different variation.

Mask ports

Settings marked Mask port can be driven by a mask. Click the setting's Mask port button and connect a mask to the new green input: black scales the value to 0, white keeps the value you set.

See also

Crater · Dunes · Mountain · Plateau · Ridge