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 13
I like this one! but....
I do think this Program needs some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism:
1.Getting the resoults you like is HARD like almost imposible, and this leads to the next point
2.You can only Save by exporting, AND you can´t export the timeline,only a Picture of it of a single Mega-anum so You are Only left witha few options, Or you are insane and export every million or so years or you film a video at the cost of lossing some information
But here are my fixes: Give the player some more controll(if you can do that)Make it possible to save the whole timeline within the program,Let us go back to points in the timeline without nedding to reset every thing...But
there is still a reason im recomending this because i see Real potential in this and i hope my critisizim isn´t unheard
But anyways Keep woring hard! >:3
Steam User 3
Its good, and there isn't that much stuff like this program too simulate plate tectonics and realistic planet generation. However, I have some cirtisicms. Hopefully the devs fix these.
1. The UI is near impossible for noobs like myself to find. I only found it by searching through the reviews.
2. After running the simulation for a bit, the land begins to grow too much. I'm not convinced that oceans really react that way to tectonic activity. maybe make it easier to control the amount of water is on your planet after the simulation ran for a while.
Steam User 2
For the features it claims to have, I think this software achieves its aim. It produces very nice, realistic-looking worlds. Yes, the controls are finicky. Yes, it does take time to get a handle on what sliders affect the simulation. However, if you've downloaded this tool because you know what kind of world you want and want it to generate your idea, you are not going to be in for a good time. If you know what you want, you're better off looking for alternative software or drawing it manually.
It eats my GPU usage at 10.9km/cell quality. However, I've found that switching the view from Satellite to Elevation significantly improves generation speed, and I can still view major tectonic shifts and the effects of Orogeny.
Overall 7/10. It's FREE! So if you're not happy, you can't really complain.
I look forward to the improvements this software will get.
Steam User 5
Great app. I spent 930 hours trying to find the correct planet lol still looking. 10/10 geological suffering
Steam User 2
Best free planet creator! You mostly get planets by randomizing and running the tectonic plate simulations. but it would be nice if you had some more customization options. I would like to also make planets that aren't exactly like Earth and have some more control, but I think that would be more fitting for a paid game. I will probably use this for drawing references so I can change my planets however I like, and it is perfect for realistic looking continents without just copying Earth. If you need random earth-like worlds for a sci-fi or fantasy universe this game/software is perfect.
Steam User 1
its ok i guess i dont know if mine is just being weird but it felt like on the first day i was getting really good continent shapes and then the next it just rufuses to make a continent now it only makes small isles and rushes it around for a bit or giant landmasses that span from pole to pole i dont know but its really frustrating
Steam User 1
I'm obsessed with this. It's so fun watching the world evolve, adjusting parameters, and pausing to think about what life might be like at any random point. My only gripe is that after enough time, a lot of land appears and the land/water ratio seems asymptotically similar given any starting conditions. But still, wow. Super cool little worldbuilding sim!