Rock 3
Rock 3 is a procedural world generator to build believable and interesting earth-like worlds. By modeling tectonics and climate it drastically simplifies the process of building detailed and realistic biomes across continents and islands, while providing the controls you need to fine-tune and customize near-infinite possible planets. Save your worlds as equirectangular projections of biomes, elevation, heightmap, heat, water, and landmasses.
Rock 3 generates planets entirely on your GPU. It’s not recommended to run this on a laptop or other device with integrated graphics. Your experience may also be compromised on an old or low-end graphics card. In some cases scaling the resolution of the planet down can improve performance to usable levels. Maps are always saved at the highest resolution.
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
This is a quite useful and extremely interesting piece of software. I wish we had more control over the design of the world map, though. It would also be nice to have a display showing the time period of possible eras. Perhaps it would also make sense to be able to upload height maps that you have created yourself into the software and then modify them using the sliders. The function that allows you to drag and rotate the map to the desired position is useful and effective; however, I would like the program to save the map in the desired position instead of automatically re-centering it. I would also appreciate having more control over the sliders. Ultimately, this is the best software for generating believable world maps. I have never used a program that delivers such accurate results. I am absolutely thrilled. Thanks!
Steam User 3
Great little app! Worth installing and playing around with. I think this will actually be perfect for a project I had in mind, thank you for the exports, I can't wait to hear of new features in the pipeline. It's pretty useful as-is for creating a little map world and having all the different elevation maps to match ready to go instantly.
Steam User 0
This is great for making heightmaps. I tweak everything how I want it,save it, then take the heightmap file into my paint program and resize to 512x512,adjust the brightness and contrast then paint pure black around the edges.
Load it into my world creator and it looks great. A lot easier than trying to paint a heightmap from scratch.
Thanks for providing this good tool.
Steam User 0
Very well designed and easy to use, a LOT better then some other world generators you can find online. I am overall highly for this great software!
Steam User 0
Great and realistic free software. UI easy to use aswell!
Steam User 0
This is, like, the single most dream program for me I've ever seen. I don't know if it's someone's passion project, or if it's like a bigger undertaking, but honestly this is so incredibly good, as a translator and a programmer I honestly would love to help in Rock 3's development so that it can be better and available for more people. I'm "matalya" on Discord, I'm a graphic designer, programmer and translator.
Insight Games, if you'd like to work together, please hit me up, let's work together to elevate this into something truly great!
Steam User 0
This software is similar to Songs of the Eons, and it's good! The rendering time is exponentially better than the latter and the graphics are nice. Also, The controls regarding tectonics and biomes for instance provide adequate and instantaneous variations for a given seed (world map generated).
However, AT THE MOMENT (this might change in the next update), it lacks quantitative data that the competitor provides in great amount (rainfall, rock type, farm-ability, wind speeds, temperature, volcanoes and a lot more) and the tectonics generation seem less... realistic? I don't know, it might be an impression. If it had that level of quantitative detail, I would love it!
One last thing, adding more parameters about the planet itself and the star would be amazing.