What’s a good program for zone design?

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Hiya! Name’s Willow. Local forum gremlin. I make art.
I’m learning blender rn for model rigging and sculpting, I’ve got an architectural degree and special interests in botany, geology, and ecosystem structure.
I wanna build Azeroth from the ground up - and I don’t know where to start. All of my work has been physical media, not digital. I don’t have the materials or the money to construct a scale version of Lordaeron city - but I do have time.
What’s a good program for this kinda stuff? I wanna dive into creating distinct architectural styles for Lordaeron, Alterac, and Strom. I wanna build out whole interconnected plant ecosystems that work with established plants lore-wise. I have sketchbooks full of stuff but I wanna make it…explorable :3

I’m kinda starting with Northwest Lordaeron - that whole string of land and cities - then moving East to the nations of the dwarves, elves, and trolls. I wanna do the world Justice, bit by bit.

Also what kinda ‘puter would I need?

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Any way it’ll cost you some.I don’t have the money to buy even the program you have doing architectural design but more likely you wish to do 3d work with that . If you can afford it you can actually rent those programs to help you out,photoshop does this on monthly base.

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It will be a real project but if the goal is to just remake the whole world in vivid detail, unreal engine 5 is very powerful.

Note:
Even a low quality rendition of a small area say (goldshire and surrounds) is a multi-month project.

But I think you’ll be happy with the outcome.

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That I know :3 I still remain hopeful. I’ll give unreal 5 a try!!!