Landscape

We haven't covered how to sculpt the landscape in this book yet, but we'll do that here. First, you must have a landscape to work with. Start a new file by navigating to File | New. You can choose an empty level or a level with a sky. I chose the one without the sky in this example.

To create a landscape, we have to work from the Modes panel. Make sure that the Modes panel is displayed by navigating to Window | Modes:

Displaying the modes panel

A landscape can be created in three steps, which are shown in the following screenshot, followed by the corresponding steps:

1. Click on the landscape icon (the picture of the mountains) in the Modes panel.
2. Click on the Manage button.
3. Next, click on the Create button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

You should now have a landscape to work with. It will appear as a gray, tiled area in the main window:

The first thing you will want to do with your landscape scene is add some color to it. What's a landscape without colors...