While procedurally generated landscapes do tend to have a more generic, or 'samey' look about them than hand-crafted landscapes, the trade offs in development time can more than make up for a small loss of visual quality and interest. Using regions, a mod developer can circumvent the tedious and time-consuming task of hand-placing each object in the wilderness and focus his or her energies on more important tasks like quest design and the creation of custom assets. Regions are used to procedurally generate common objects like trees and rocks for world spaces in Fallout 3. This tutorial will show you how to use the Region Editor in the G.E.C.K.
