Thank you for your reply guys.
I didn't do any hand modeling, What I do is simply based on displacement, composite shaders and particle system (because python is beyond myself). I use elevation (el) map as displacement source on subdivided flat plane, for the whole land mesh.
And other plane to make whole water surface, same process but with water elevation map.
Cloud layer is a plane which mapping with rainfall (rain) map, and use the map to control size and density of cloud particle system which generate on the plane. Trees are the same method with vegetative
(veg) map but generate particles on land mesh.
So this way I can change textures and get a new world map any time.
But this method is too heavy with poly count from huge high-subdiv terrains. So I splited land and ocean plane to smaller chunks, so I can push more subdiv to the area where I want to render.
Blender version I use is 2.80, which already have EEVEE, a realtime renderer, which is nice to play with the shader and lighting.
I already plan to do some fly-by with timelapse lighting, but I just want to push more limit to the look first, try my best to reach the level to the 'world creator' app quality but it seems difficult by how heavy the scene is, and the way blender manage the scene. But I still want to try new way to make it looks better and use resources cheaper while not compromise with quality too much.
On some past days I try to compositing procedural textures by using exported map as masks. This is the result, but still not quality I want to render as sequence.
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