Quick Start

Your first cliff (5 minutes)

1. Open Tools > Arkerion > Cliff Builder. Dock the window next to the Inspector.
2. On the Build tab, click Create Cliff.
3. Click the ground where the foot of the wall should be. Every click adds a knot. The orange arrows show where the wall faces.
4. Press Enter to finish an open cliff, or click the first knot to close the loop into a mesa.
5. Drag a knot to move it. Drag the cyan arrow above a knot to change the wall height there.
6. On the Appearance tab, pick a theme and a Geological Preset.
7. On the Finish tab, click Bake Cliff to save it as a prefab.

Tip: Create Example Here (Build tab) creates a finished example – straight wall, curved canyon, mesa or pillar – in front of the camera, and Open Example Scene opens the Desert demo scene.

Demo Scenes

DemoScene_CliffBuilder_Basic, _Desert, _Ice, _Jungle and _Lava show the same mesa in each theme, with a sky, sun, fog, a themed ground and a free camera (press Play and fly with WASD and the mouse).

The demo cliffs are live: the scenes are saved without their generated meshes, so they stay small, and the cliffs are built the moment you open a scene. This takes a few seconds and does not mark the scene as changed. Select the mesa and change anything – it is an ordinary editable cliff.

Words Used in the Tool

• Cliff – the object holding one cliff. Everything it builds goes into its Generated child.
• Contour – the line you draw: the foot of the wall.
• Knot – a point of the contour. Section – the piece between two knots.
• A – Rim & Top – the rock terraces and the top (plateau on a closed cliff, top strip on an open one).
• B – Wall – the wall of fractured rock blocks.
• C – Debris Slope – the slope of loose rock at the foot of the wall.
• Theme – a set of materials and rocks (Basic, Desert, Ice, Jungle, Lava).