• Documentation
  • Getting Started
    • What is NDunes?
    • Installing NDunes
    • Downloading sample data
    • Downloading store packages
    • Troubleshooting installation
    • Hardware requirements
    • Choosing a working directory
    • License
    • The user interface at a glance
  • Changelog
    • Version 1.0.1
    • Version 1.0.2
    • Version 1.0.3
    • Version 1.0.4
    • Version 1.0.5
    • Version 1.0.6
    • Version 1.1.0
  • User interface
    • A multiple documents application
    • Using scenes
    • Sub-documents and groups
    • Generic commands
    • Using the selection toolbar
    • Using the camera toolbar
    • The sun tool
    • The wind tool
    • Display modes
    • Tonemapping
    • Performances
    • Settings
    • Information bar
    • Document tree views
    • Options
    • Commands history
    • Documents caches
    • Viewport picking
    • Measure tool
    • Grid tool
    • Solar field generator
    • Saving an archive of the scene
  • The working directory
    • External resources
  • Controlling the camera
    • Mouse gestures at a glance
    • Translating the view
    • Rotating the view
    • Zooming the view
    • Camera Examine mode
    • Camera Orbit mode
    • Camera Fly mode
    • Camera Top-down mode
    • Get back to previous camera
    • Creating and managing cameras
    • Camera parameters
    • Animating the camera along a curve path
      • Creating a curve path
      • Playing the camera along the curve
      • Exporting the camera video
  • Rendering
    • Safe frames
    • Taking a snapshot
    • Rendering an image
    • Exporting an environment map
    • Rendering a camera animation
    • Batch rendering
  • Using store assets
  • Exports
    • Creating an export area
    • Exporting large amounts of data
    • Defining an export area contents
    • Exporting!
    • Synchronizing with NDunes
  • Viewer
    • Make Viewer Build
    • Launch Viewer and open a scene
    • Viewer functionalities
  • Annotations
    • Creating annotations
    • Image annotations
    • Text annotations
  • Atlases
    • Defining a planet's atmosphere.
    • Defining a planet's cartography
    • Using QGIS to prepare NDunes cartography
  • Blueprints
    • Input data
    • Scene parameters
    • Customization of classes
    • Generating the scene
    • Creating your own stylesheets
  • Biomes
    • A quick introduction to biomes
    • Defining a first biome
    • Learning plants scattering rules
    • Influence of the terrain over plants
    • Defining biome fade colors
    • Biome density multipliers
  • Brushes
    • Overview of landscape brushes
    • Sculpting soils with other soils
    • Sculpting a terrain from scratch
  • Clouds
    • Creating a cloud
    • Prepare the cloud for display
    • Add the cloud to a clouds covers
    • Clouds cover opacity modifier
  • Clouds covers
    • Creating a clouds covers
    • Setting up a clouds cover lighting
    • Adding clouds to a cover
    • Clouds covers rendering options
  • Cities
    • Buildings
    • Fences
    • Sidewalks
    • Roads
  • Decals
    • Creating a decal document
    • Creating a decal area
    • Creating a hole
    • Modifying the terrain
    • Applying a soil
    • Customizing vegeation
      • Randomized plantation mode
      • Grid plantation mode
    • Ordering and blending decal areas
  • Geometries
    • Defining a geometry
    • Adding global illumination
    • Decal linked to the geometry
    • Import model as geometry ground decal
    • Adding reflections
    • Lights overview
    • Materials overview
    • Animating a geometry
  • Graph editor
    • List of graph nodes
  • Materials
    • Material channels properties
    • The realistic material
      • The energy preservation model
      • Bump channel
      • Back diffuse and translucency
      • Masked material
    • The PBR metallic material
      • The PBR model
      • Additionnal PBR channels
    • Emissive material
    • Water material
  • Networks
    • Creating roads
    • Crossing roads
    • The road geometrical model
    • The roadway
    • Roads edges
    • Roads sides
    • Roads surface markings
    • Bridge pillars
    • Creating roads templates
  • Overlays
    • Overlay Creation
    • Overlay Rendering
    • Overlay Placement
  • Plants
    • Overview of the plant display system
    • Defining a plant
    • Calculating the ambient occlusion of a plant
    • Setting up the global illumination of a plant
    • Transitioning from plants meshes to prisms
    • Calculating the prism of a plant
    • Plants splats when far away
    • Animating the plants
  • Scenes
    • Global Illumination
    • Cloud Covers
    • Decals Order
  • Soils
    • A minimal soil definition
    • First level soil vs. secondary soils
    • Adding masks
    • Defining vegetation densities
    • Retouching a soil image
    • Adding flow maps
    • Using ASC files
  • Terrains
    • Overview of the terrain architecture
    • Designing a first terrain
    • Refining a terrain
    • The atlas layer
    • The first level soil
    • Secondary soils
    • Soil blending operators
    • Density modifiers
    • Adding snow
    • Mapping a soil on a vertical cliff
    • Normal maps and normal bending
  • Waterbodies
    • Creating a waterbody
    • Sculpting the waterbody contours
    • Setting up the water rendering
    • Specifying the seabed
    • Creating islands
• Tutorials
  • Startup tutorials
    • Getting started
    • Creating a terrain
    • Adding a biome
  • Sample data
    • Sample scene
    • Cliff house
    • Pine forest
    • Small European mountains
    • Summersky clouds cover
    • Mountain example
    • Eroded low terraced soil example
    • Canyon example
  • Complete workflow tutorials
    • External data
    • Scene setup
    • Creating overlays
    • Project integration
    • Scene edition
    • Create Cameras
    • Global Illumination and Tone Mapping
    • Rendering and animation
  • Plants tutorials
    • Creating a plant
  • Geometries tutorials
    • Setting up a global illumination cache
  • City tutorials
    • Changing a material in a building
  • Networks tutorials
    • Using roads networks - part 1 - simple road design
    • Using roads networks - part 2 - roadways
    • Using roads networks - part 3 - edges and side geometries
    • Using roads networks - part 4 - surface markings and roads templates
    • Using roads networks - part 5 - setup bridges and calculate network shading
  • Clouds and clouds covers tutorials
    • Creating skies
  • Convert 3D files from CAD softwares
    • Export 3D files from Revit
    • Export 3D files from Archicad
    • Export 3D files from Sketchup
    • Export 3D files from Maya
  • Brushes tutorials
    • Using simple brushes
    • Painting complex terrains
• FAQ
  • General
    • Troubleshooting
    • I'm lost somewhere on the planet
    • What happen when a conflict between documents is detected?
  • Terrains
    • Setting a terrain in the current scene
    • Removing a soil from a terrain
    • Disabling a soil output
    • Removing a mask link
    • Moving a soil up or down in the terrain list
    • Disabling a soil in a terrain
  • Soils
    • Reloading a soil after a change
    • My soil don't look correct
    • Quickly creating a terrain from a first level soil
  • Plants
    • Reloading a plant source after a change
    • My plant don't look correct
  • Roads
    • Toggling on and off the point creation
  • Overlays
    • Placing model
  • Download OpenStreetMap files

Getting Started

Quickly start using NDunes. Provides a quick overview of the software and how to use it.