Setting the stage

The first thing we would like to do is to create a landscape for our first level, which is called Awakening.

Unity itself has some good tools for creating terrains, but truth be told, it is not a practical means of achieving nice, beautiful terrains for the game. For this purpose, we will use another set of tools, called Terrain Toolkit 2009, which was developed by Sánder as part of the Unity Summer of Code 2009.

The toolkit is available on the Asset Store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/83490.

I have also included the library as part of the download provided by this book, just in case the original link gets deprecated in the future.

Once you download the asset from the Asset Store, you will need to import ...

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