Faraway Mountains Generator

Every scene has an edge. Faraway Mountains Generator closes it: one click measures your scene, finds its edges and builds layered mountain ranges all around the horizon, with mist between them and the air color taken from your sky.

It is made for archviz exteriors, street and city shots, game levels, product renders outdoors and animation sets: anywhere an empty grey horizon gives the render away.

Fits your scene by itself

• Reads every visible object and fits the ranges to the scene's real footprint: a long street gets long ranges along its sides, a round plaza gets a circle.
• Heights are set in degrees above the camera's eye line, so the mountains look right whether your scene is a 10 m garden or a 2 km city.
• Close the full 360 degree horizon, only what the camera sees (lighter), or a chosen compass arc.
• Flat land runs from your floor out to the foothills, with no holes beside narrow floors.

19 landscapes, on Earth and beyond

• Alpine, Himalayan, Rocky Mountains, Dolomites, Rolling Hills, Highlands, Forested Ridges, Desert Ranges, Mesas and Buttes, Badlands and Canyon, Volcanic, Karst Towers, Arctic and Sand Dunes.
• City lights at dusk: Hollywood Hills with homes twinkling up the slopes, and Desert City Lights, bare ranges around a valley full of lights like Las Vegas.
• Other worlds: rust-red Mars with layered mounds and crater rims, the grey cratered Moon under a black sky, and an Alien World of towering violet spires.
• Each one sets its own shape, rock, snow line, tree line, forest, haze and fog, based on how the real places look from far away.

Photoreal from afar

• Aerial perspective like real air: farther ranges fade into the sky color, and the air color is read from your world (color, Sky Texture or HDRI).
• Snow that sits on the summits and slides off steep faces, forest below the tree line, scree and eroded crests.
• Real aerial rock photos (Poly Haven, CC0) give the slopes their detail.
• Mist bands between the ranges, with density, height and color controls.
• City lights for any landscape: one slider fills the valley floor and low slopes with warm and cool home and street lights, with climb, brightness and warmth controls.

Light and fast

• About 80,000 vertices for three ranges at Medium detail, rebuilt in a fraction of a second, so sliders update live.
• Detail is spread evenly across the view, so far ranges cost no more than near ones. Low, Medium and High detail.
• Works in Cycles and EEVEE, and the meshes and materials are plain Blender data you can edit or export.

Easy to use

• A big picture of every landscape in the sidebar: click it, press Add, done.
• New Variation for another mountain range in the same style, Refit to Scene after you move things, Match Sky after you change the world.
• Rare options sit in folded panels: shape, snow and forest, fog, ground and detail.

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.