Infinity Generation vs World Machine
Infinity Generation
infinitygeneration.com
World Machine
world-machine.comSide by side
| Figure | Infinity Generation | World Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $119/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 9 |
| Spec score · Game Map Generators | 8.7 (#1) | 8.5 (#3) |
| Support | Free Alpha support is through the community and email on a best-effort basis; Enterprise includes priority direct support from the core team. | Paid licenses include one year of support and free updates, and the maker offers a help center, helpdesk and community forum. |
| System requirements | The published Alpha download requires 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and a graphics card with Vulkan 1.1 capability. | Minimum systems are Windows 10+, macOS 13.3 Ventura+ or Linux with glibc 2.34+; recommendations include an 8-core AVX2 CPU or Apple silicon, dedicated AMD or NVIDIA graphics and 32 GB RAM. |
| What it does | Infinity combines the visual Infinity Creator editor with the Infinity Engine to build procedural content that can run during gameplay. | World Machine is desktop procedural terrain software that generates landscapes and exports heightmaps, masks, meshes and PBR textures for creative pipelines. |
Plans
Infinity Generation
- Alpha PlanFree
- Free AlphaFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
World Machine
- Indie$119 a month
- Professional$299 a month
- Studio Site$1,999 a month
- BasicFree
- BasicFree
- Indie$119, paid once
- Indie to Professional upgrade$180, paid once
- Professional$299, paid once
- Studio Site$1,999, paid once
In their own words
Infinity Generation
Infinity Generation's Infinity Engine supports runtime procedural generation of worlds, terrain, vegetation, planets, and other content for games and applications. Infinity Creator is a visual development application with a node graph and 3D scene viewer. Its noise tools are based on FastNoise2 and include Perlin, Simplex, Cellular, and other types. Generated scenes, models, and textures can be exported for use as assets.
The engine is described as compatible with Unity, Unreal, Godot, or custom game engines. Its C++ SDK and API support integration into existing projects, and developers can build custom procedural components for node graphs. Those components can call AI models to enhance dynamic content generation. The Free Alpha plan costs nothing and provides full software use during the Alpha period. Products using Infinity that make over $100,000 in annual gross revenue are subject to a 1% royalty. Creator lists Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) and requires a Vulkan 1.1-capable graphics card; macOS and Linux are described as coming soon. Free Alpha support is best-effort through community and email. Enterprise includes priority direct support, with price not listed.
World Machine
World Machine is procedural 3D terrain-generation software for artists creating realistic or stylized landscapes, including game, film, and visualization work. Its node graph offers more than 100 devices for terrain, erosion, rivers, masks, materials, and outputs. Simulations cover flow-based and thermal erosion, snow accumulation, river channels, lakes, and coastal erosion; Dragontail Peak adds terrain with overhangs, cliff faces, and caves. Exports include heightfields, meshes, masks, and PBR textures in standard formats, with listed file types including RAW, EXR, TIFF, PNG, TER, OBJ, glTF, and GLB. Compatible tools named by the maker include Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, Blender, Maya, and Cinema 4D. Professional and higher editions support tiled builds for worlds larger than memory and can resume builds after interruption. The free Basic edition has the Indie toolset but caps each output asset at 1025×1025 pixels and is limited to non-commercial use. Paid plans are Indie at $119 a month, Professional at $299 a month, and Studio Site at $1,999 a month. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.