For the lack of a better place to put this info I'll just leave it here.
This is an article on ways to making the best looking environments which is pretty important to think about from the very early stages of game development. It talks about World Machine which is the best and easiest to learn tool I've seen for terrain creation
Here:
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Im a modeler and Im constantly learning to get better results. Im always looking for better and more efficient ways to model for games.