Dayside documentation
How Dayside works: the workflows, every tool, and every parameter in the interface.
Everything the app does, what each control changes, and the order to do it in. Start with What Dayside is if this is your first time, or search above for a parameter by name.
Start here
What Dayside isDayside renders invented planets the way a mapping satellite sees Earth. Here is the whole workflow and the ideas it rests on.
Install and first launchSystem requirements, the installer, what happens on first launch, where worlds and caches live, and how to read the terrain capability status.
Your first worldA walkthrough from an empty worlds list to an exported image, using the real buttons in order, with what each heavy step costs.
Workflows
Setting up a worldThe flat map or whole world fork, physical scale, the three ways to start terrain, importing a heightmap, and resuming an existing world.
Painting terrainThe Draw-mode paint surface in full: height and biome brushes, landform stamps, coastline tools, Deterrace, guides and undo.
Enhancing terrainRun the terrain diffusion pass over a section or a whole globe: models, adherence, coastline options, revert, and the working-resolution bake.
Rendering the satellite imageHow Dayside turns a heightfield and a climate map into a satellite image, and how to steer the result without guessing.
Working on a globeThe whole-world workspace: cutting regions off the sphere, working them, and folding the finished work back into one globe you can export.
ExportingEvery way to get data out: the section and globe export modals, what each layer contains, resolutions, sidecars and the Blender handoff.
Reference
Terrain and generation referenceEvery control that shapes the heightmap: brushes, stamps, coastlines, sea level, the Generate modal, models and their ground sample distances.
Colour and climate referenceEvery parameter the colour render reads: defaults, ranges, engine keys, the silent caps, and which controls go inert.
Interface mapEvery panel, rail, HUD, dock and modal in Dayside, what each is for, where its controls are documented, and one complete shortcut table.