Add dynamic hillshading

Changes in lightning of hills and mountains can easily simulate the movement of the sun during the day. You can achieve this by changing the paint properties of the “Hillshade” layer from MapTiler Terrain RGB, which is included in Outdoor map style. Here is an example how to add a hillshading layer to any map style.

If you do not need dynamic lighting, you can add and set hillshading values directly in the MapTiler Customize tool.

Related examples

Add hillshading

Example

This example adds raster hillshading to a map by adding the MapTiler Terrain-DEM raster tileset as a raster-dem source with a hillshade layer.

3D terrain map

Example

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a 3D terrain map and display it on a web page using MapTiler.

Raster layer

Example

This tutorial shows how to add a raster image overlay to the map.