Procedural Terrain Generation with Unity (Udemy.com)

invaluable content on the topic, goes in depth on lots of things. but the delivery of the material is a bit lacking in my opinion, as theres lots of moments with the instructor narrating over any code she writes and copy pasting it into script files instead of explaining what is being done and why. Again the code, the way it works is all invaluable and fun to learn, but its some details that i felt were rushed, theres no overarching project being built its all separate content and by the end up have a perlin noise 3x3 terrain, there is no single package to download for the course, need to pay attention to see when the instructor mentions there are new assets, theres no overarching project being built its all separate content and by the end up have a perlin noise 3x3 terrain. I just finished the course and my biggest dissapointment, all the code worked on throughout the course only applies to single terrain generation! so it all needs to be refactored to function with multiple terrain objects seemlesly. I had other gripes with the project but this issue took the cake i had to edit this review to warn about this. its nice to study the algorithms and all, but by the end the course leads you off a cliff instead of integrating the content to work with multiple terrains from the start. a bit distracting since you have to actually write the code yourself, i end up stopping the videos so I can concentrate and read/write the code being shown instead of understanding what is being done and coding/solving along with the tutorial. also theres no github repo commit associated with each lecture so I have to watch hours of videos to see get an explanantion of each section's final code version. its more of a "heres a tried and tested how to do this" kind of approach, uses outdated methods and goes fast with little hand holding, things like: "here we have a multidimensional array of heightmap pixel points that we iterate over in a nested for loop to yada yada" little to no explaining of how its working.

I've taken several of Dr. de Byl's courses, and while this one is still excellent, it's the most in need of repair and updating. In particular, it makes extensive use of the "Standard Assets" that were no longer included even when the course was made, and several other small things have changed since then. The "water" section, I think, needs a pretty much complete rebuild using volumetric built-in tools rather than continuing to rely on the old standard asset set. If it's being updated, I think it would also be valuable to add a lecture or two on large terrains -- how to make these techniques work across more than one terrain object in a cohesive way so that they can be streamed in for the now-ubiquitous "open world" sort of landscapes. I final suggestion: the course does several steps (adding controls to the editor and serializing them) very frequently. Even after more than a dozen iterations of effectively the same code, the instructor still "walks through" the solution for several minutes each time. A significant amount of course time is spent on what amounts to doing the same thing over and over. I'd suggest that after the third or fourth time, the challenges change to "do this, and if you have trouble, my solution is attached," rather than go through the steps again and again.

Amazing course like as other Holistic's courses. Very interesting subject of this course. There are a lot of interesting topic of generating terrain. First we study how to create terrain manaully and the we get more and more advanced knowledge. Course is interesting included many challenges ad lectures are s presented in simple way. Every people who will be get these knowledge want will be glad of this course. Additional I talk that Holistic community love to help in your game development adventure. Thank you Penny and Holistic Team :)

Great course, concepts and algorithms were explained very well and had a lot of fun. And most importantly learnt about how the terrain system actually works. I can say for sure, this course has given me the right foundation for further developing / testing out new ideas as I understand things much more clearly now. Though, a very few things might not work quite properly in newer versions of Unity like splatmaps disappear from the terrain paint settings after saving or restarting Unity or even in play mode, but regardless of that if someone wants to know how the terrain system works and how to generate environment procedurally, then this course is absolutely worth it, as it gives solid foundation to the necessary algorithms but also gives enough knowledge to try and test out new and different algorithms for generating terrain.

Great course, Penny is amazing at explaining! Some parst are objectively super tough though, like errosion mechanics. Too bad terrains are rarely used in real game developement, and I also faced the problem with Tree objects that can be only trees apparently. Even though it seems like you can place any 3D model and give it a Tree behaviour, it doesnt really work. Maybe Unity will change that (if still hasn't). Other that that, I think these methods are possible to use with not a Terrain type of an object as well, but you need to be an advanced programmer to figure it out and modify the code. On top of everything, I actually did use procedural terrain generation on the run for an actual game (university project), but on a simple level like Perlin noise for making random hills, grass, texturing and using Terrain data to randomly scatter interactable objects on it. It also requires the code modification, but it works. So the course was even practically helpful for me. The last part of the course dedicatred to clouds, weather effects, fog and post-processing is not Terrain-specific and is universally useful to know if you make games with Unity. That was super nice to watch! Thank you, Penny!

This was such an amazing course. I cannot believe how much I have learned just from watching and attempting to do exactly what was shown. I have been left inspired and ready to continue learning with Holistic. I think my next project is to make a nice scene and share it with the other students and eventually my classmates in college. I highly recommend this course for you if you are wondering what I should tackle next because it will give you an amazing tool that you can use for the future games you can create with amazing terrains. Thank you for making such a wonderful class. It was quite fun leering about the different algorithms. See you all in the next course.

Was a splendid trip in the "deep" of mathematics and back to the "sun" of creation. A perfect solution for us that we do not have the initiate imagination to create an interesting terrain from zero!!! A perfect solution for us who are lazy to paint and populate via hand our terrain!!! The Instructor was very clear and in depth in all the sections she touched. She is giving the main tools and knowledge to expand/modify the final result to something bigger and more powerful. The introduction to Custom Editors through the Project is an additional asset. 100% Satisfied with trip and the result. Keep up to Good Work Ms. de Byl. P.S.: If in future is there an update of the Course. One nice addition would be the "smooth" connection of other terrains on the main one.

This course gives you an almost complete procedural terrain editor that is explained excellently. In my view, the mathematics that is used are briliant! The course is taught in a very good, clear and fun way by the instructor. And it works! The terrains that you can get out of the system are of very good quality. Only downside for me is the programming part. Important principles such as S.O.L.I.D are not used. Unfortunately the S of single responsibility has been largely overlooked, making the classes and functions very large. Fortunately, all this can be refactored and can be seen as a good exercise. One little thing what I missed is how you pasted multiple terrains together. Conclusion: A real excellent course with an excellent instructor who answers your questions and teaches the course in a really fun way!

This was my first Udemy course and it was exactly what I needed. I've played around with Unity for a while, but never had a specific goal. Or I had way too many and didn't know where to start. This course gives an excellent overview of Unity's terrain system and the various hooks one can create using custom editor menus to control exactly how you want your terrain to look. There is tons of room for modification on the learner's part and I found myself drifting into experimentation the further I went. The instructor was very clear and easy to understand and was internally consistent with both her code and explanations. Each lesson could almost stand by itself though, so repeating sections once you've gone through it may help you refresh your memory on why you are doing certain things. I've already purchased a few other courses from this instructor, and I can't wait to implement knowledge from those into the terrain I've made!

This is one of the best and most interesting courses I have taken on Udemy so far, and I learned so much about Unity that I now have an entirely new perspective on how it can be used. The topic of terrain generation was very well thought through and presented, I especially liked the chapter on erosion. The knowledge about the various algorithms will be useful for other things, I am sure. I have a lot of ideas to evolve the terrain generator for my particular interests, and I think the course has given me the inspiration and most of the tools I need, so BIG THANKS! Would love to learn more about procedural texture and mesh generation, to generate the vegetation and details.