Awfuldarkforest Worldmaker World Editor v2
I've been working hard at this thing. It seems like I've reached a plateau. I know there are lots of world editors to choose from. That's good. You may want to give this one a try - nothing to lose. Its a small download (3.4 mb), a good creative tool and fun to use.
You can download it from the Awfuldarkforest web site
http://awfuldarkforest.tripod.com/worldmaker.html
You can make a matrix, texture it with one image, or a bitmap texture with 16 images, or you can use a single image tiled independently of the matrix and then sliced into matrix tiles.
You can use a heightmap, any size, jpg, or bmp, any colors. There is also a variety of terrain tools including large smooth hills, random ridges, random subtract. You set the degree of smoothness and the height. Except for the large hill maker, they add to the terrain, rather than replacing it, so you can use them in combination. You can also smooth, stretch, shrink and flatten. You can see the changes as you make them.
There is an edge blender button. Example.dba shows how to make a simple infinite matrix out of a single matrix.
You can also set the lights, fog, normalize, etc. There's a sky box included with a choice of textures.
Load any 3ds or x object. You can scale it, rotate it and place it where you like. There are several building block type objects included. They are cloned. You can also clone any other objects you have loaded. When you use the included objects you get static collision boxes. You can also texture them with an assortment of included textures.
There's a help file included. You can download it separately also. There's a file included to use in your dbpro game. It's simple and easy to edit. There's also a couple of examples.
