Render from Inside Unity where the landscape is integrated with the rest of the surrounding landscape.
Render from Houdini
Reference-picture
This was made with Houdini Heightfields (Old system based in SOP). I downloaded a TIF with height-data from the site and used the satelite-data already imported into Unity to match it up and make masks for the textures.
Technical Breakdown
LOD0
LOD1
LOD2
LOD3
LOD4
The mesh was separated into 3x3 tiles and got 4 LODs. LOD0 is a bit polyreduced from the original mesh since it was very heavy. Click on the pictures to get a bigger view and see the wireframes.
I used vertexcolors to make it easier to apply textures in the right places. For the final result I extracted different mask from the orthopphoto and projected them onto the mesh with different materials but this gave me a very good baseline to work with.
