Norway Real-World LIDAR Terrains 8K

Glacial valleys, alpine lakes, cirque ridges and high mountain plateaus of Norway at their real size

56 real-world terrains from LIDAR elevation data. High fjell plateaus, glacial valleys, cirques, ridges and lakes of Norway, with snow on the highest tops. Every heightmap covers 8.128 x 8.128 km (about 8 x 8 km, 64 square km) with 1 m between samples. Every Unity terrain sample is an original heightmap pixel - nothing is stretched or resampled - and 1 Unity unit is 1 metre.

✦ GOOD TO KNOW

This pack holds 56 Norway maps. Scotland is a separate collection of 93 maps (two packs, Part 1 and Part 2). No map appears in more than one pack.

✦ WHAT'S INSIDE

• 56 heightmaps - 16-bit PNG, 8129 x 8129 px, height range from 261.1 m to 1756.1 m
• 3 demo levels x 3 render pipelines - 9 ready scenes to fly or walk through: Alpine Lakes, Glacial Valley, Cirque Ridges
• Terrain Builder - one click turns any heightmap into seamless real-scale Unity terrains
• Norway fjell ground look - 8 ground layers in 4K (meadow, forest floor, dry earth, scree, rock, gravel, snow, lake bed), painted automatically from slope, landform and height
• Water - lakes: mirror lakes that reflect the real mountains, with gently moving ripples and deeper water towards the middle, in Built-in, URP and HDRP

✦ FEATURES

• Exact scale - size and height range are in every file name and inside every PNG, and the builder reads them for you
• Anti-tiling terrain shaders - every layer blends three texture sizes by viewing distance, so no repeating patterns
• Cliffs without stretching - textures are projected from the side on steep faces, so cliffs show real rock texture instead of vertical streaks; flat ground is unchanged
• Seamless 2 x 2 tiles - each map is split into 4 terrains of 4097 samples (Unity's limit) that share their edge pixels
• Verify - compares every terrain height with the original pixels

✦ PERFORMANCE

• Native 3840 x 2160 - no upscaling, demo scenes in player builds: Built-in 87-156 FPS · URP 66-107 FPS · HDRP 98-116 FPS (RTX 3090)

✦ DEMO CONTROLS

Mouse look · WASD move · Shift fast · G walk at 1.8 m eye height · F fly · N / P next / previous level · H help

✦ UNITY 2022.3 AND ABOVE

Built-in, URP and HDRP in one package. Tools > Lidar Terrains > Project Setup switches on terrain holes in your pipeline asset with one click.

✦ USE CASES

Open-world games · flight and driving simulators · hiking and survival games · cinematics · terrain studies. The heightmaps also work in other tools: 16-bit PNG, north up, size and height range in the file name.