Dunes

Terrain terrain.dunes

A field of transverse sand dunes: gentle windward slopes, steep slip faces and sinuous crests.

Output with default settings, rendered by LibreTerrain.

Outputs

Port	Type
Out	Heightfield

Settings

Setting	Default	Range / options	Description
Wind direction	0 °	0 to 360 °	Direction the wind blows towards. Steep slip faces face this way. 0° = +X (right).
Spacing	450 m	1 to 100,000 m	Distance between dune crests, in metres.
Height Mask port	35 m	0 to 20,000 m	Height of the feature above its base, in metres.
Base	0 m	-10,000 to 10,000 m	Height of the surrounding ground, in metres.
Asymmetry	0.75	0.5 to 0.95	Share of each dune taken by the gentle windward slope. 0.5 = symmetric.
Sinuosity	220 m	0 to 100,000 m	How far the crests snake back and forth, in metres.
Height variation	0.5	0 to 1	How much dune height varies across the field.
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

Canyon · Crater · Mountain · Plateau · Ridge