By Coulter Heiberger · Updated
Put a real site under your Twinmotion scene: terrain with the imagery draped, imported once and kept.
To get real-world terrain into Twinmotion you need the site as a textured mesh, because Twinmotion is a visualization tool, not a geodata source. It renders whatever model you hand it. The fastest route: draw your area on Mantle Place, order the bundle, and take its glTF or OBJ terrain, aerial imagery already draped as its texture and included at no extra cost, ready to import directly into Twinmotion, or bring it in alongside your Revit or SketchUp model so the design and its context arrive together. The manual alternative is to export a DEM from a GIS, mesh it, texture it with orthoimagery you sourced and aligned yourself, and hope the scales match. Once the site is in, Twinmotion’s lighting, vegetation, and entourage do the rest.
No. The data is not locked to Twinmotion. The glTF and OBJ you import also open in Blender, Rhino, Unreal, and more, and the GeoTIFF and vectors in the same bundle serve the CAD side of the project from the identical extent.
Define the area of interest on Earth: the project footprint plus enough surroundings for the camera moves you have in mind.
Buy the bundle for that area, then in your vault download the Real-time set: glTF and OBJ terrain with the aerial imagery draped, ready for a renderer to pick up.
Import the OBJ or glTF terrain mesh into Twinmotion; the draped imagery comes along as the material’s texture.
Bring your building in from Revit, SketchUp, or Archicad and set it onto the terrain at the real location.
Add Twinmotion vegetation, people, and skies, then export the stills, panoramas, or animations for the review.
Not measured terrain. Twinmotion can pull generic urban context from OpenStreetMap for quick massing, and its library covers vegetation, people, vehicles, and skies, but real elevation and aerial imagery for a specific site come in as an imported model.
Yes. The glTF carries the draped imagery embedded; the OBJ comes with its material and texture alongside, at no extra cost. Keep those files together and the ground texture arrives with the mesh.
Yes. The bundle is the same one the Mantle Place Importer reads, so the identical site opens in Unreal as an editable Landscape whenever the project outgrows Twinmotion.
Draw your area, read its Site Brief, and download a bundle you keep: terrain, imagery, CAD drawings, and more, ready for Unreal, Revit, Rhino, and more. $5 plus $2 per square kilometer, and 2 km² and under is free.
Native plugins: Mantle Place for Unreal and Mantle Place for Revit.
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