⛰️┃terrain-3d

[inland jetty]

I don't know how you would get an error about it being an editor script

unless you tried to drag in TerrainCustomEditor

or if you accidentally pasted that code into the first script

you may have done that

[ionic plinth]

it wont let me add either

[inland jetty]

You put the RaiseTerrainHeightmap script in the Editor folder.

It does not go in the Editor folder.

[ionic plinth]

🤦‍♂️

[inland jetty]

(anything in Editor will not get included when you build the game, so it stops you from trying to add it)

didn't know it would give that extra error

[ionic plinth]

Okay so i recreated the script as a component of that terrain tile was that right?

[inland jetty]

i don't know what that means

you just need to move it out of the Editor folder

[fluid meadow]

hi, i have a problem

somebody know how to change the size of threes in terrain editor?

[winter minnow]

In this video the Placement Settings appear when the prefab icon itself is clicked rather than the tiny checkbox on it, would it appear for you then?
I notice the new included shaders don't implement tiling settings, which suggests they simply didn't bother adding them in
If you're on URP or HDRP it should be relatively easy to implement it yourself using Shader Graph

[fluid meadow]

its like, i have a prefab of the three, and its have 4x4 transform size, but in terrain, looks 1x1

[ionic plinth]

Okay i think im closer, I moved it out. I think i now have to add it as a component to the terrain?

[inland jetty]

Yes.

Then assign the terrain into the "my terrain" field

and configure the height change you want

[ionic plinth]

Thanks so much for your help!

[fluid meadow]

bro help me too

[drifting crown]

@fluid meadow Stop spamming the channel. If someone can help you they will. Also make a single search for your question.

[fluid meadow]

well

[drifting crown]

!mute 855610361230524447 1h Stop spamming.

[reef bay]

Capitán Mayonesa#6539 was muted.

[winter minnow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/terrain-Trees.html
The answer can be found here
Always check the documentation first

[paper violet]

No, density settings for the prefab don't show up among the placement settings for the selected palette. I see frequency, randomize scale, and randomize rotation. Not sure what frequency does, but it's not increasing the prefab placement density for sure.

[winter minnow]

"Strength" appears to be the rate at which prefabs are placed
Not sure if it can be increased above 1, but you should be able to paint in the same spot for longer for a tighter group
It's possible to enable "unclamped falloff" and manually set the upper end of the falloff curve to above 1, but it doesn't feel like it actually could go above 1
Conceptually there doesn't seem to be a "density", at least not in a way that'd track how many prefabs are already placed in that spot for a controlled prefab density
Frequency is the likelihood at which a prefab appears relative to other prefabs in the "brush loadout", meaning prefabs selected from the palette

[paper violet]

Sounds like there's no easy way to cover a small landscape. That's unfortunate.

[winter minnow]

Why not? As long as I increase brush min and max radius it seems to paint even huge areas quite tightly at max strength

[paper violet]

Not quite dense enough for my purposes, they're still pretty sparse and require a lot of movement to get a nice layer down

I have the strength dialed to 1 and can't go past that

[random cobalt]

hello, I have this basic terrain and lets say I wanted to slice the mountain in half horizontally. but since unity's terrain is height map based I cant do that easily. does anyone have a work around for this?

[winter minnow]

Can't do it at all with Terrain alone*
The sliced mountain would have to be a mesh
Or possibly the topside is another smaller Terrain that has its edges cut with Terrain holes and the underside plugged with a mesh of the sliced surface

[snow plover]

can someone tell me how do i get these terrains brushes?

[visual fog]

Hey all. Not sure I should ask here. Let me know if I should go to another channel please! My question is: can I set some kind of 'threshold' for when my Player is able to move on top of an object (the sidewalk) or bounce into an object (a wall)? I have no idea what other terms to describe this... Here's a quick video explaining: my characters can't walk enter the sidewalk. But he should be able to! And when he's on the sidewalk, he should be moved up a bit, but still bounce against the house.

[random cobalt]

Hi so the paint holes brush does not function properly when your terrain material's shader is not set to "URP -> TERRAIN -> LIT". But I cannot set my terrain material to that because it has custom shader. What should I do?

[reef berry]

guys how would I know how many vertices the terrain has

[inland jetty]

I am trying to bake a navmesh that includes a terrain with trees on it. This is in Unity 2023.1.6f1.

The existence of this setting for trees makes me think I should be able to include them in the navmesh bake: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TreePrototype-navMeshLod.html

I tried putting a capsule collider on the root of the tree object, as well as on the first LOD (after setting navMeshLod to "first"). Both produce trees that I can collide with, but my NavMeshSurface isn't including them.

I've tried setting the NavMeshSurface to bake based on physics colliders and render meshes. I've also tried setting it to use all game objects, rather than just those in the hierarchy, and I'm also including all layers.

It works as expected if I drag a tree prefab in manually -- I get a hole in the navmesh around the tree.

[winter minnow]

Terrains can be tricky because it draws trees by GPU instancing rather than mesh renderers afaik
But still it should at least be able to produce some kind of colliders for the trees
I'd try to check if it seems rigidbodies can collide with trees

[inland jetty]

It's the navMeshLod part that really makes me think this should work...

The colliders work fine.

I can bang into trees

[winter minnow]

That seems to point towards the issue being with navmesh generation settings somewhere

Terrain component is not something I'd fully trust in any situation

[faint robin]

What is easiest way to add water level to terrain nowadays? I'm using 2022 lts

[undone lark]

If using HDRP, there's the new ocean system. Otherwise, the same old way of displacing a plane via shader.

[hybrid wedge]

anyone here having used quadspinner gaea?

i'm considering to use it for my open world instead of MapMagic which has been one big headache so far

[hybrid wedge]

one big plane with a water material

[brave aspen]

did u solve it?

i really need it too

[hallow sequoia]

Looking for a simple code for procedural map generating

[snow plover]

can someone tell me where i can find more terrain brushed?

i cant find anywhere

[summer bay]

If you're on HDRP, you get the fancy new water system, otherwise, a big plane with a nice water shader is your best bet

[idle breach]

Hey there! I was wondering if anyone else struggles alot with Grass in Unity. For Some reason i can not figure out, it changes color with the Wind Settings. I cant find a Color where it just keeps its color. Alpha to 0 doesnt work 😦 its driving me insane - does someone more experienced know anything about that D:

[fringe thunder]

i must have pressed something on my keyboard but im getting a null reference error whenever i click on my terrain, and i cant paint anything any help?

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.TerrainTools.BrushSizeVariator.OnEnterToolMode (UnityEditor.TerrainTools.BrushShortcutHandler`1[TKey] shortcutHandler) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.terrain-tools@4.0.5/Editor/TerrainTools/BrushControllers/BrushSizeVariator.cs:70)

the error is longer than this a little bit but idk

[neat acorn]

i dont know if this is the right place to ask, but I have a .raw file for a terrain I generated. the file is 2560x2560 which is not a power of 2. how can I resize this file? gimp doesnt allow .raw files and I tried a converter and it doesn't allow .raw files that arent taken by a camera. do you guys know how to resize a .raw file?

[winter minnow]

It's been a while since went through that process but I seem to remember using Gimp for importing, editing and exporting the .raw, and also that you got to define the dimensions freely when importing it into Unity's Terrain component

[neat acorn]

thanks, ill try that. do you know how i could use a non square sized heightmap? I don't want to change the proportions because this is based on a real life location.

[winter minnow]

Yes, you've got the width and length settings so if they have the same proportions as the heightmap, the proportions should match
Even if the textures themselves are power of two

[neat acorn]

hm, this is in meters right?

[winter minnow]

Yes, or more precisely units but units are meters by default

[neat acorn]

thanks man

[oblique bison]

i downloaded this

how to get these flowers on the plane?
as depicted in the asset store

[winter minnow]

Did you check if it has instructions or if it has a demo scene that shows how they're implemented?

[oblique bison]

no

😓

[hazy axle]

Hi. i was wondering if its possible to make circular shape terrain in unity ?

[hazy axle]

also i face this weird error in unity terrain tool ? : Saving has no effect. Your class 'UnityEditor.TerrainTools.SmoothHeightTool' is missing the FilePathAttribute. Use this attribute to specify where to save your ScriptableSingleton.

[idle breach]

Hey there! I was wondering if anyone else struggles alot with Grass in Unity. For Some reason i can not figure out, it changes color with the Wind Settings. I cant find a Color where it just keeps its color. Alpha to 0 doesnt work 😦 its driving me insane - does someone more experienced know anything about that D:

[jolly sparrow]

Hello anyone know how to make the layers work please ? i can't paint my terrain

if anyone want to help please ping me

[void sparrow]

hey I'm getting that same strange error message too rn

were you able to figure it out?

[young gate]

This is an outside the box kind of question, but I'm wondering this:

If I'm not using a section of terrain in a scene, say a corner or water you cant access anyways, would cutting holes out increase performance when rendering?

I'm trying to scrape out every pixel on mobile possible.
Thanks

Edit: Probably no since the renderer only renders the FOV of what the camera is looking at

[winter minnow]

based on my understanding of the terrain shader, it's cheaper to skip over rendering terrain using holes, but only if those pixels on screen would otherwise be rendering terrain, meaning those areas of the terrain are being looked at and not covered by opaque geometry

But having terrain holes enabled in quality settings itself has an overhead cost for every pixel of the terrain, since it increases shader complexity

[young gate]

So the trade off of having holes enabled would potentially negate any performance I save using holes.

[winter minnow]

Most likely

[young gate]

Much obliged.

[drowsy crown]

Is there a way to place grass mesh without random rotations? I have a grass mesh and a shader that displaces the vertices in a particular direction ( wind direction ) but because meshes are placed with random rotation, they end up swaying in diffrent directions.

[winter minnow]

Why not make wind shader's direction in world instead
Identically rotated grass would look pretty weird I expect

[broken mist]

why i can't put grass?

[ivory smelt]

do you got any assets or anything els for grass?

[tardy lark]

yep a well known issue that is a mystery

you are using urp ?

you can place gras in the tree tab..

[hazy axle]

Hey, I deleted all the terrain packages and whatever was related to them. I also deleted some other templates that have the terrain tool or brushes and reinstalled them, and it fixed everything.

[short glade]

Asking low poly builders: Once im done with the basic map layout which has some wierd turns and twists in the terrain. How do i go about making the low poly terrain for the map, such as the mountins, and all the elevations.

Do i make it in pieces?
and
How do i make the terrain in a way that it first the layout. For example if i make it in blender i might have an offset or scale wrong so i have to redo a part of terrain multiple times just to get it to work

[rose sentinel]

those fragments are being drawn ontop of the close up fragments

must be something up with the depth buffer

[molten prawn]

Hi guys !
I'm trying to make objects flotable on a water area and it works perfectly with Unity base 3D objects like cube and sphere, but when i try to use custom objects whit mesh renderer, i have to passe the mesh into convex otherwise the object wont detect water. But with that my custom object bounce very hard on water and waves, any ideas on why ?

[forest siren]

Does unity have a auto-LOD setting?

[winter minnow]

I guess it depends on what you mean by "auto" LOD

[forest siren]

You dont need to manually create lods of every game object.
I search for a feature like in unreal 5.

[winter minnow]

It's not built-in functionality but should be some tools on the asset store that can do it

Terrain component can generate billboards for any tree mesh

[forest siren]

Whats with the game object like bushes, vehicles, buildings.

[winter minnow]

Maybe Terrain can generate mesh LODs for trees too but I expect that may require SpeedTree trees

[winter minnow]

What's "with" the gameobjects? Meaning what

[forest siren]

Everything in your game should automaticly lower its polygon count after long distance without even having different lod models of the same object.

[winter minnow]

The only technology that does that is Unreal's Nanite

[forest siren]

Is there anything planned by unity to make a competitor against nanite?

[winter minnow]

No, but there's a third party asset in the works named "Nano Tech"
There isn't that big of a demand for it since LOD authoring is a trivial task for most studios and provides some benefits of its own

[sharp oak]

I'm new to Unity it wants me to use the Nature/Soft Occlusion shader, where would I find that?

[ivory smelt]

why does my mountain not look as awsome as others?

[sharp oak]

I just said that I'm new to unity so like not sure if this is advice but I suppose turning up the brush size when raising or lowering terrain, I would try a bigger brush then opt for half the size etc etc

or try using a different brush altogether for different affect

[ivory smelt]

the mountain is on a 5000 X 5000 X 10000 grid thats equal to 250000000000 cubic meters so i dont think the size is the problem here and i cant think what is tho =/

[ivory smelt]

like what kind of affect?

[sharp oak]

what brush were you using

[ivory smelt]

and i am also new i started literly 3 days ago

[sharp oak]

try brush 6 the really gritty looking one

[sharp oak]

haha i downloaded unity 3 hours ago

[ivory smelt]

pretty much all of them

[ivory smelt]

lol

with these meshes

[feral otter]

Hello, I am making a game with a relatively large map (using neighboring terrain tiles), and was wondering how to render the tiles to increase performance

[winter minnow]

I believe the Terrain component by includes its own LOD and culling systems by default
This means it's already optimized in what it does, but that you can't implement your own optimizations even if you'd prefer them

[minor arch]

can someone explain something to me: why can't I carve the default terrain?

[winter minnow]

What does carve mean in this context?
You mean dig below zero depth, cut holes into terrain or dig horizontal caves?

[feral otter]

ok, so trees and grass placed with terrain tools will have LODs and culling handeled by the terrain system?

and I assume we would need our own system for game objects placed in the world seperate from the terrain

I know one of our group members is looking into scene loading atm, would that be a good approach or are there some caveats that we should know about?

[winter minnow]

Culling and billboarding yes, LODs I think not automatically unless you're using SpeedTree tree editor trees

[winter minnow]

Yes

[winter minnow]

I think so yes, additive scenes can be loaded in asynchronously so that could make them a good option

[calm flax]

Hello! I have a problem with baked shadows on terrain trees (everything works completely fine with hand placing trees on terrain). Using URPin Unity 2021.3

My terrain trees don't receive baked shadows if my light is in mixed mode when I generate lighting. All is fine with fully baked or fully dynamic lights. Dynamic shadows work fine in dynamic or mixed mode. Baked shadows appear exactly as they should in baked mode. Only problem with terrain trees - shadows work fine on the terrain itself, or anything that's hand placed.

Anyone have any suggestions what might be happening? Once again it's baked shadows not being received by trees, but only with mixed lights, and only for the terrain trees, nothing else.

[feral otter]

Ok, thank you for your help ❤️

[trim ice]

Hello, I have a problem, my cat stepped on my power button and shut down my pc during a terrain modification. After rebooting my pc, reopening my project and going to "Paint Texture" menu, I'm getting a lot of error. I tried to remove temp and library folders and restart, delete my project and clone it again, reinstall unity... but nothing seems to work. I get the same error (screen). Any idea about how to solve this ?

[glacial bramble]

can any body from unity start working on better navmesh this has been forever a problem its so bad pls spend some time on trying to test out on complex surfaces not just flat stuff and if you say did you try slopes PLS DONT, I tryid it all for many years your navmesh system has been a Joke Nightmare just not good for complex terrains PLS AND THANKS

[rare linden]

Pretty sure there's setting to adjust that 😂

[limber fox]

How random rotate grass?

[winter minnow]

It may be better to use a grass texture that doesn't have such obvious repeating patterns like shadows

There are shaders that can add random rotations when sampling, but custom Terrain shaders are a lot of work and you don't usually need that
Once your terrain has details like grass, trees and rocks you usually don't need perfectly nonrepeating textures

[limber fox]

How to make such a shader?

[minor arch]

I just want to 'dig' down or 'lower' it below 0, but that doesn't work out-of-the-box wtf. Instead I have to lower transform to guess number, then set height to 0... am I doing it wrong? I just want it to lower without having to do all of this

[main citrus]

hey. I need help with the tree colliders.
They only work if i place them manualy but not if I place them with the paint tree option

I am using a mesh collider on the tree and that does not work

[winter minnow]

Terrain data is stored in a height map texture that cannot represent values below 0 or above 1, so its values have to be mapped between min and max heights of the terrain

As a consequence you need to know beforehand the lowest and highest physical points your terrain will have if you want to get the most out of vertical resolution available to you

And then raise the whole terrain to the level you have arbitrarily determined as baseline

[wise estuary]

Does anyone know how they baked terrain basemap into texture in Unity Terrain Demo scenes for HDRP?

[amber cloud]

I am making my first game, and I am currently making a terrain in blender using the ANT landscape generator. I wanna make one entire level for the game, and I was thinking about cutting it up into pieces and use LOD, and also streaming the level piece by piece like WoW

But how many vertices is too much for the ENTIRE level? Imagine that the size of the level should be something like fallout 4, where you can walk from one end to the other in like one hour. From google. "Fallout 4 game map is approximately 43 square kilometers (16.6 square miles)" I wanna make something around this.

So is 500k vertices too much? 5 million? 50? I have no frame of reference and google doesn't really say much, as it is context-dependant ofc.

[royal peak]

Hi, any way to have a particle system on the tree prefabs placed by the terrain?

[winter minnow]

I think you may need to get the tree positions from Terrain data and instantiate particle systems on them manually

I'd look for resources for how to add scripts or colliders to terrain trees as a reference, since particle systems are just another component like them

You may end up having to implement some kind of optimization to only have particle systems on nearby trees or to disable them over distance if your forest is very big

[thorny swift]

If you are gonna stream in the world I would mainly look at how big disk size you wanna take for users. For HighEnd PCs can handle 1mil polygons on screen quite okay if they are not in many batches. Lower End PCs you wanna go around 100-200k polygons. And mobile is 100k under, high end 300k under. Then all it depends on how much is it going to cost your disk to hold onto that much data. There are other factors like Shader complexity etc. But this is mostly calculated on Standard Shaders with nothing extra like parallax, tessellation etc.

[amber cloud]

Great thanks for the general pointers

[thorny swift]

Your welcome

[winter minnow]

@amber cloud The actual performance depends on a lot more than polycounts alone, so you have to be ready to test and profile and in general study the concepts of optimizing for your target platform
Lights and shadow casting may require meshes to be rendered again so even the polycounts the GPU is pushing through can vary a lot

[hot oriole]

Maybe adjusting the voxels of the NavMeshSurface will solve this problem

[royal peak]

Thank you for your reply, then I will have to do so. Have a nice day ! 🙂

[hushed juniper]

Can anyone tell me why when I use the paint trees tool they all are floating? Not by much but its noticable

[winter minnow]

Does the tree mesh/prefab have the same offset as well?

[knotty seal]

I'm really struggling and don't understand what's wrong with this navmesh, if I move it a bit closer to the bridge, my navmesh agent proceed to move to destination, if it's 1cm away, it can't. I don't see anything wrong on the navmesh baked...

[lone laurel]

In my scene view there are no enemies around me, but when i move over certain areas like my stair case or some tiles upstairs, i take damage. Issue stops when I turn off enemy spawner.

[deft pagoda]

Please tell me if this can be done or how to do it. For example, let's say I need to make fields on which there will be grass, trees, etc. And it is necessary that these models spawn themselves, at random coordinates inside this field. Is it possible to do this?

[knotty seal]

I fixed it, for anyone who would be curious, it's very weird, but it was the nav mesh remaining distance that was showing "0" during a frame instead of "+infinite", so as it was showing 0 during a frame, it was directly going to play the animation that is supposed to play when it arrives at destination. I tried to fix it by adding a "wait next frame" but after I just added a "pending path" node and a if to check when the path is not pending anymore, then proceed to calculate remaining distance.

[fleet tendon]

Any reason why I can't change Base Map Dist. ?

It autoreverts to 20000

[fleet tendon]

Fixed this by brute forcing it with script, thanks though

[main citrus]

anyone knows how I can play a particle attached to a specific terrain tree?

[ivory ravine]

Any terrain in any project show this warning, even with only 1 prefab added, forums and discord says it's an old bug, but I have this question though :
If my detailMeshs are already atlased, do Unity re-atlas the atlases ?
Or do this only work with detailTextures, which are cards, no UV control, no atlas possible (all the imported above are detailMeshs).

[dense vector]

soo, i've been struggling to get the unity terrain grass textures to cast shadows. how can i create a shader to get them to cast shadows? and although there are a number of tutorials on this, it seems that they are using individual grass objects with a material and then applying the shader to the material. not sure how to replicate this with terrain grass textures.

[gaunt ice]

Hello, I have two textures: one is the base texture (sand), and the other one I want to add by painting (grass). However, I'm having trouble achieving a clear border between the two. Please refer to the attached image :

How can I ensure I have a clean border?

[winter minnow]

No easy way to do it
You'd need a custom Terrain shader that replicates all the features except that it uses step instead of lerp for blending texture layers

And Terrain shader has a lot of features

[gaunt ice]

And Is it possible to do this using a third-party software like Blender or another one

[winter minnow]

Naturally
But then it's up to you to implement every feature you require for your terrain

These might be splat mapping, material layering, LODs, trees and foliage potentially

[hollow wadi]

Hey guys,
For games like farming simulator, in which the terrain texture is altered all the time, is there something I need to know about Unity's terrain system?
Or the basics of the tutorial is enough?

I am worried about updating the splatmap all the time

[wise estuary]

Do you also have an issue with painting layers on terrain in Unity 2023.1.15f1 when using Terrain Tools 5.1.0?

[crimson ibex]

anyone know why this is happening?

[cedar jolt]

why unity is getting super slow when i paint with another layer

[feral otter]

Is there a way to get navmesh to work with painted trees?

[crimson ibex]

just gone through every setting, nothing to do with splatmaps or resolution, and ive never seen anyone else mention something like this

[jaunty harbor]

Hey all!
I'm having an issue where I'm unable to paint holes onto my terrain. I'm using HDRP, custom landscape heightmap, and custom landscape material/shader

Unity's documentation is pretty sparse on the paint holes option so I don't really know what's going wrong here.

[rose sentinel]

do you have a collider on the new terrain?

[rose sentinel]

does the player use a check for ground instead of normal collider, if so do you have your new terrain in correct layer

yeah maybe try doing that and lmk if it works

[ivory ravine]

Ehm, there is no MeshCollider for Terrain tree instances (for like rocks) ?

[near yew]

How would I "sculpt" this river? I want it to flow downhill slightly. Should I just export the terrain mesh to blender or something?

[gritty shoal]

Maybe

[winter minnow]

Terrain component terrain can't do sharp inclines or walls very well so you might want to plop in extra meshes as cliff walls
Or just make the whole thing in a modeling program instead though you do lose terrain features that way
For a "flowing" river you need an animated material, and would realisticially have water on multiple elevations and waterfalls of some kind between them

[near yew]

Thanks. Was more so wondering how I could warp the "water" plane (or use something besides a plane) to adjust the geometry to match the terrain. I tried just using another terrain object, but even when disabling the earth terrain's "selectable" setting in the hierarchy, the terrain brush still wanted to sculpt on that one rather than the water terrain. Oh well, I'm going to start fresh in blender some other time. Thanks again 🙂

[jovial sphinx]

Hi, do you guys know why in Unity, when I try to add grass, it appears transparent, and I can only see shadows? I've encountered the same issue with two different grass shaders, so I'm thinking there might be a general solution. Also, when I had my project in URP and switched from Built-In, the prefab icons turned pink at first, and then after I updated them to URP, the prefab icons became transparent, as if there's nothing on them. I'm not sure why this is happening because I followed the add-on's documentation and updated it to URP, but I still can't see the grass, only the shadows, also when I add the texture included in this add-on, the shadows stop moving at all, even though they should, does anyone have any ideas?

[naive ravine]

What shader were you using for the grass materials? Was it a built in shader or a custom one

[winter minnow]

The problem is the shader/material used by the foliage, but we can't see that in the video
Each time you "add a texture" to a mesh, it's just a shortcut to create and assign a new material with the default shader using that texture

[jovial sphinx]

it is a custom grass material, specifically from the free add-on "Low Poly Wind" https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/low-poly-wind-182586#description

and the material looks like this, if it helps somehow

[naive ravine]

If a custom shader is updated to URP, it usually results in some errors. You might be able to fix this by editing the shader script to support URP

[jovial sphinx]

the only problem is that there is even an upgrade in the files to make the add-on work on urp, and that's why I'm wondering how to solve it, because after using it I can't see the grass at all

do you have any idea?

[naive ravine]

Oh that is strange

[naive ravine]

Unfortunately no I don’t

[crimson ibex]

anyone know why this is greyed out?

[pearl seal]

how can i make a super small cylinder cut out on terrain. the smallest hole i can make is a square. im trying to cut a golf hole. maybe a stencial buffer to fake the hole?

[crimson ibex]

still struggling with this, has anyone else had this problem

[wise estuary]

Does anyone know why every layer above 4 in HDRP show up well in the editor but appear black in the build?

[ivory ravine]

No more pointLights on detailMeshs ?

or am I alone in this ?

[ivory ravine]

Same behaviors in various versions of Unity (from 2022.3 to 2023.2) am I missing something here ?

pointLights won't affect detailMeshs that use standard shader, scattered on a terrain

can anyone just confirm to me that pointlight work on their terrain normally ?

[hardy shell]

I am working on a procedurally generated 2d world. It currently looks like this. My goal is that it can be used in both 2d and isometric.
Anyone know how I should go about making hills and mountains? Do i just layer sprites on top of the hexes? Should I create procedural mesh mountains?
My goal is to have mountains as shown in the 2nd picture?
Anyone know any good art assets for mountains?
Thanks

[ivory ravine]

Do you maybe happend to have pointLight working on your detailMeshs ?

do ANYONE have this issue, seriously i'm losing my mind here

yo

[rose sentinel]

Hi

Is it possible to make the snow on the terrain be affected by the wind?

This is what I have currently, but the snow on the ground is "static" (for a lack of a better word)
I've tried googleing this but I can't find anything, maybe I'm missing a keyword here...

[ivory ravine]

I'd just put a few particles of snow dust, a bit like that

look at references like maybe God of War, Skyrim, RDR2..

[rose sentinel]

Thanks, I'll look into that 🙂

[rose sentinel]

Also this seems like an already good enough solution

It's more realistic at the very least

[spice trellis]

If I have a terrain script error should I post it here because its about the terrain tools or in scripting?
like this

[rapid coral]

is there a big performance difference of having 1000x1000 planes with simple plane mesh or having 1000 bigger plane mesh (but one) with small variations

or is it optimized somehow?

[ivory ravine]

Day 4 of my endeavour, maybe someone will answer today :
Do anyone have pointLight working on detailMesh of their terrain (does light affect your grass color) ? - Using Built-in, 2022.2 and above.

[bright lark]

Hello everyone an idea about why cant i paint details ?

2022.3.5f1

[ivory ravine]

for anyone passing by, I'm still looking for someone to confirm that PointLights are broken and don't affect Terrain detailMeshs (grass).
Using Built-in, Standard shader, 2022.2 and above, can anyone replicate this ? Or am I alone ?

[rose sentinel]

i need help
geniunly
its 3:30am and i am gonna mentally explode
this is the code
https://hastebin.com/share/eriyivavag.java

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HV8GbFnCik
i follow this tutorial

I get shit like this

when it should be like this

i am usig diamond square algorithm

its going to be neraly 4am so ama go sleep and if i wake up in 4hrs and know that someone told me how to fix it then I will pray for that person success

[ivory ravine]

@rose sentinel I don't know for your issue but I've been asking the same one for a week now,
Can you put grass on your wrongly made terrain, and tell me if f***ing pointLights affect your grass ?
Seriously I have asked for a thousand people I've got no response, I'm desesperate to find an ANSWER TO THIS FOR A WEEK>
CAN SOMEONE TEST THIS FOR GOD SAKE
POINTLIGH ON GRASS

please

f* please

just anyone put a light on your grass and tell me YES or NO

it's simple

[rose sentinel]

i figured out the mistake

in the getting value of mid

i missed out a vlaue [botleft].y

[ivory ravine]

@rose sentinel Okay nice ! Now what happend if you put a PointLight on some grass, does it take the color ?

[rose sentinel]

i wont be doing textures

[ivory ravine]

could you maybe test for a few seconds ?

[rose sentinel]

i am doing a memory usage test depending on fps and terrain size for two algorithms

[rose sentinel]

idk how

i am a beignner

it would take me time\

[ivory ravine]

ah nevermind then

[ivory ravine]

for anyone passing by, Day 6, I'm still looking for someone to confirm that PointLights are broken and don't affect Terrain detailMeshs (grass).
Using Built-in - Standard shader - 2022.2 and above - can anyone replicate this ?

[winter minnow]

At this point it would've likely been quicker to get QA to look at it by filing a bug report with a repro project

[ivory ravine]

Yeah that's what I did several days ago, and they responded next to the question, not the question itself.
I'm still waiting for the correct test and answer from them, or from anyone at this point.

[earnest current]

i feel like im losing my mind

i swear to god the terrain layers thing was here
where i apply the pallete

ive done it before but now i cant find where terrain layers are

[tame depot]

cannot add my trees

How do I add a mesh render component to a prefab that's in my project files?

[calm summit]

I created a neighbour terrain. The colours are washed out, as far as I can see, all the settings are the same. Anyone recognise this?

[molten bluff]

lightmapped?

[rich pumice]

Why can't I add bendfactor to my tree?

[rocky folio]

Hi all. Is there anything in unity that can help with this terrain style workflow?
https://youtu.be/oBLjMWCEsXM?si=24zKcRnfSHnm2Chb

[rocky folio]

https://youtu.be/fucZzuVPgrg?si=0LKxKy1v0_MsEH8v
This. But is this the only option?
Or this, but not available
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/L0dDjoZDvm

[rocky folio]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/free-3d-tilemap-system-for-3d-pixel-art-games.710600/

[shadow burrow]

hiiiiiiiiii,
every time I async load terrain with lot of grass textures,
through addressables it freezes main thread for 0.2 seconds with TerrainData.AwakeFromLoad call

it happens only for terrains with a lot of grass variation

how do you guys stream your world terrains with grass considering this issue?

[fleet jasper]

Hello, why is my terrain tool doing this?

1. Extreme density of plants
2. Field mode??? Lol

[naive ravine]

What is the problem? It’s spawning too many detail objects at once?

[pastel solstice]

does anybody know where I can find historical landscape data from like the 30’s and 40’s in Poland

To be able to recreate those kinds of landscapes

[shadow burrow]

this place is black hole, people asking questions and no one answering 💡

[fleet jasper]

kinda... it's supposted to be a plant but it spawns so many of them that it looks like grass. Also it's putting them in stripes, which i dont want.

[naive ravine]

Turn down the detail density

[winter minnow]

Seems like a lot of people are using Terrains since there's so many questions but they don't stick around to help each other much

[shadow burrow]

Makes sense.

[mint mason]

I got this simple grass object here but when I go to paint it onto terrain it goes sideways, if you need more info please say I'm a bit lost

[rigid junco]

Rotate the grass -90 degrees on the X axis in blender (in edit mode), or change the export settings

Unity and blender use different coordinate spaces so the rotation wont match by default

[lethal tangle]

im really new to unity how can i make this look better

[mint mason]

Thanks

[desert rock]

lighting and shadows

[naive ravine]

Did you make those trees? They look pretty good already, at least the shape

[ivory ravine]

Add more variation to your grass, I mean more prefabs.
At least 3 types of grass, 1 patch of clovers, and flowers.
Painted with a different seed, it will fill the holes, and be much more natural, vary their maxHeight, and use different noise scale (in the detailMesh parameters).
Place some trees manually, and tilt them a bit randomly, again feels more natural.
Add some clouds and volumetric fog if you can afford it.

[candid python]

I am developing for mid-low end devices any tips on how to optimize trees and foilage in terrain?

[ivory ravine]

It's the game of the minimum,
use as few polys as possible, as few draw calls as possible, and set the shadow distance to a minimum if for real-time.
"Atlas" your textures/UVs, have meshes share the same materials, utilize simple shaders (with few texture slots). Use impostors/billboards for trees and large objects that can be seen from a distance.
Reduce "overdraw" by ensuring that your meshes are not quads, but custom meshes that better match the shape of the plant.
And it depends on what you want to achieve I guess.

[candid python]

Thanks

[pale canyon]

Hello everyone, Is it possible to rotate a skybox 180 degree? I have downloaded AllSky and using the Space Skybox but would like to make it so the earth is underneath not ontop. Thanks in advance

[past glen]

how can i make terrain?

im trying to make an open world but i dont know where to make my own terrain

[earnest current]

Use a program like gaea

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379665373743677468/1170718398259408906/lead.PNG?ex=655a0f79&is=65479a79&hm=34d39abfc96d96a3775c65d063935b7932d5cde4172c8964f40c1cb09ebe19af&

Speaking of gaea... how do I make the terrain not ridgy like this one the stone area

[past glen]

Speaking of gaea... i have no idea what to do bro

i just have a square

and a gray texture

i want low poly too

imma use blende

[ionic otter]

is it possible to automatically change the terrain layer bordering an object on top of the terrain or do i just have to do it manually?

[celest gust]

When generating terrain from a randomly generated height map that is sharp (Only black and white, no greys), it still kind of smooths out the edges like shown in the picture. Id like for the terrainb to go straight down with at most a little bevel if not with a completely sharp edge. How could I achieve that?

[earnest current]

this area i've red circled is going to be a cave in the future.
would i be better just making it a solid object and digging it out with a plugin like digger? or is there a better way to do this

[ornate karma]

Is there a way to increase Terrain Detail Distance more than limit in Terrain Object? It's really annoying to work with when you need to be soo close to ground in order to see what you are doing, especially with big terrains.

[vital aspen]

Hi, i need some help, I've painted trees with the Terrain Tree Painter, but they ONLY appear on a super close distance, i've added LOD groups to my prefabs and maxed out the values in the terrain editor, nothing has worked, help please

[knotty delta]

You cant, the terrain system uses a grid of vertices displaced by height data. You can fake it by increasing the amount of vertices so the distance between one vertex and another is small and increase the height. But it will never be straight 90 degree wall.

[dreamy sapphire]

I am learning how to use auto tiling but its not going to plan

The tiles that ive set rules for are tiny for some reason lol

[winter minnow]

Texture PPU problem, not a tile rule problem
Prefer #🖼️┃2d-tools for sprite related questions

[dreamy sapphire]

Alright cheers

I do have another rule tile question though, this isn't working as planned either

[winter minnow]

Sure could ask that in the 2D channel

[dreamy sapphire]

its ok I figured it out thanks 🙂

[fringe belfry]

Hello!
Have your question answered?
If not, I would recommend you to make the terrain as if like the cave is in the mountain, so fill it up.
Then the cave area in a separate object.
For the entrance, you should look for a Stencil buffer for cutting the terrain + a collision trigger (box) for allow clipping through the terrain.

Or maybe this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q22A2QkDRI

Either way you have to create the ceiling. I would go with the 3d model approach.

[north carbon]

i am trying to get grass to my terrain but the add grass texture is not appearing and the detail mesh is not showing up on my terrain. is this a known issue? because internet cannot help me.

[earnest current]

Wonder if doing 2 terrain layers on top of eachother like this would also work
obviously once i add in extra objects to hide the edges n fix the rough stuff

[fringe belfry]

Looks interesting with the holes!
I still believe you would be better off if you would make a separate cave model (multiple models). And put it in it's own scene and load it additively:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.LoadSceneMode.Additive.html

I'm not sure how light sources behaves with 2 terrain. You might end up having performance issues because of a few light sources in the caves...

Make some testing before you dwell into the nitty-gritty parts of this!
And share what you have fund!

[ancient lynx]

Hi, is there a way to make a change to the matreal of my trees at run time? It seems like i need to refresh the terrain somehow, is there any way to do this?

[onyx maple]

Anyone really good at terrain stuff that could help me out? I have a specific issue that I can't seem to find a solution for.

Basically I am raising the vertex position of my terrain in a tessellation shader and because of that, the Terrain LOD (I think) makes my camera un-render the terrain sometimes at the bottom / corners because it thinks it is out of "frame", but because I have raised the vertex positions they should be visible.

Maybe I'm explaining it poorly, but I attached a picture that shows the problem. The camera near clip is set to 0.01

And increasing the pixel error does help but it maxes out at 200 and it is not enough for all cases sadly.

I'm pretty new to terrain stuff, wondering if anyone has had a similar issue :D thanks <3

[high axle]

What's a good away to make roads?

[shy blade]

How are overlapping mesh's textures blended like this after they are merged (I assume they are merged) ? Is it something done in Unity, or something done in modeling software?
Refering to the rocks being blended into the ground.
I'm sure its just done with masks, but can it be automated?
https://i.gyazo.com/59d155b722de64e8f7074c6bd970aeeb.png

[soft drum]

make them in a 3rd party program like blender

or use splines

[spice edge]

Ill try here aswell: Unitys terrain details arent working with WEBGL... is that just a feature or is something else going on... like in everything else its fine. but meshes turn almost transparent if theire used as terrain details when ran on webGL... Any ideas

[fickle narwhal]

how do i put the water material on a terrain?

[night stream]

Is this an overkill tri count for trees?

[distant rampart]

lod 1/2 should have much lower tri counts or billboards

[mint scarab]

the edit deatails add grass texture wont open so i cant add grass to my terrain anyone know how to get it open?

[marble sentinel]

Never had that issue so cant help much only thing I can think of: Did it open on a different / no longer existing screen? Had it a few times where Windows opened things on the wrong screen which not exists anymore due to unplugging monitors and so on so I had to force windows to put all things back on the main screen... Tho I dont remember how I did that last time

[mint scarab]

it did thanks

[mint scarab]

got it working but the grass is not visible unless i turn off bilboard

[cedar basalt]

how to put one texture on my whole terrain

[rigid junco]

Use one terrain layer?

[sharp ember]

dunno if this fits better here, or under HDR or someplace else but i'll fling it here too :

does anyone know of a free skydome creator? i want to make my own hdri's but the only thing ive seen is either using blender nodes, Ai or terragon4... does anyone know of a free app that i can use to make seamless skydomes with?

[snow heron]

im following this guide
https://gamedevacademy.org/complete-guide-to-procedural-level-generation-in-unity-part-1/

everything seems fine except when it comes to heightmultiplier part, i have no errors in the script, but my map remains flat

anyone could help out

[rose sentinel]

Yo, is there a simple way to set the terrain's height only for a specific area?

e.g. in here I'd like to set a certain height only for this area, since I'd build a building there

[hollow warren]

Yeah, one of the tools is to force a height to the area you select.

[snow heron]

funny thing is when i added debug.log my mesh does generate heights now, this is so weird
maybe my height code wasnt placed at the right spot in the script, so it doesnt get called when it should? but debug log made it delay so it works?

[hollow warren]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/terrain-SetHeight.html
This one I think

[rose sentinel]

exactly what I needed

and it was that easy, thanks!

[hollow warren]

[modest flax]

Can someone PLEASE give me some examples of 2d pixel art moon terrain because ive been searching for hours and i cant find anything, nor can i think of anything.

[vale crag]

what is the best/easiest way to create race tracks?

[modest flax]

easiest is probably to steal some or get an asset from the asset store

[graceful jasper]

i suppose there should be some auto building road plugins out here

[vale crag]

i mean using assets like probuilder or smt

[sharp ember]

is there a way to do a tutorial like this in unity? if so how? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXH1-uY0wjY

cause i have no idea what i'm doing but i want to recreate this possibly in blender and save these settings to be used in UE, unity and godot. and i wanna upload the finished shader to github or gumroad. but wanna know if its possible first

[small flint]

can anyone explain why I get this patch after build

[woven oxide]

does anyone have Gaia 2021 because I need help with the Tree Spawner. here´s the problem i have now created the trees manually with Terrain tool so added but as soon as i use GeNa tool they are not removed and stuff like that but there i have much more trees and with Gaia only some places are placed and i don't know how to do that so that i show him where all the trees go. does anyone know how to do that or is that generally not possible?

[fathom mortar]

i imported a tree mesh from blender, it has two objects main which is the stick and a child which is the leaf's when i go to paint and i select the prefab for the tree what happens is that the tree main part only gets painted how do i make it so it paints the parent(trunk) and children(leafs)

[green nebula]

hey guys, need some help importing a heightmap into unity terrain.

I cant seem to get it to look how I want it, I might just be typing wrong settings in for import but I am a bit lost

[short sleet]

What's a good way to trick the player into seeing a dense forest without actually placing a lot of trees

[rigid junco]

You can use simple quad/billboard trees.

They will look bad up close, of course

[short sleet]

how about low poly trees, is there any way to "make" billboard trees out of models you already have so that they match?

@rigid junco

[rigid junco]

The only thing I know that does that is SpeedTree I think

The billboard I showed is from my own editor tool that renders billboards from 3D meshes

It's very much WIP though, I forgot about it until I read your question 😄

But yeah you can check out SpeedTree. I don't think it's free though

[rigid junco]

@short sleet Tell me if you find a free solution. Meanwhile I will be working on my own tool

[rich pumice]

Why does my water plane have a white line around the edge?

It's something to do with the alpha

[keen moat]

Heey

i need help with my terrain

i have a little scene with 3 terrains... but i need to aplicate them the shader that makes the curve...

but i can't modify it

not as in a mesh...

so i need to applicate by any way or just convert the terrain on a plane or extract it textures...

Any ideas?

[rigid junco]

Probably intentional, looks like foam. Pretty common in water shaders

[rich pumice]

It turned out to be the shadow of the plane

[paper moss]

Hey, I'm working on an ungodly big scene (1000km2) I'm using 1000 1x1km terrains for it, no idea if this is optimal for performance. I got it to run pretty well in game by using an LOD script I wrote (but that was with ~100 terrains in the scene). My question is basically: does anyone know of a resource for terrain performance optimization and is it even feasible to have a scene this big?

[rigid junco]

Terrain/world streaming is probably a relevant keyword to look for here

[tired oak]

public class TDS_DetectTrees : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Terrain terrain;
    private List<Vector3> treePositions = new List<Vector3>();

    void Start()
    {
        if (terrain == null)
        {
            Debug.LogError("Terrain reference not set!");
            return;
        }

        TerrainData terrainData = terrain.terrainData;
        TreeInstance[] treeInstances = terrainData.treeInstances;

        treePositions = treeInstances
            .Select(tree => Vector3.Scale(tree.position, terrainData.size) + terrain.transform.position)
            .ToList();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (treePositions.Count == 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("No tree positions found!");
            return;
        }

        Vector3 closestTreePosition = treePositions.OrderBy(treePos => Vector3.Distance(treePos, transform.position)).FirstOrDefault();

        if (closestTreePosition != null)
        {
            closestTreePosition.y += 1;
            Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, closestTreePosition, Color.red);
        }
    }
}``` Someone have better way to do this? Find closest tree?

[keen moat]

!code

[reef bay]

Posting code

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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[hollow timber]

Trying to figure out a good method of adding a road shape file to the terrain, something with dynamic occlusion and all that

[rigid junco]

If you would use gameobject-based trees (not terrain trees), you could use Physics.OverlapSphere to get the closest trees.
But to further optimize your current code you could use a spatial data structure such as a quadtree

Can also replace Vector3.Distance(a, b) with Vector3.SqrMagnitude(a - b)

I would also just manually write a distance-comparison for loop instead of using Linq here

AFAIK it generates garbage

[tired oak]

im think right now if i want make this feature and building system 🙂

thank you for tips - i will check them both

[tired oak]

How hide terrrain detalis inside e.g. sphere?

[jaunty patrol]

Hello,
Do you have any idea on how I can fix the collisions in my game ? beacause they didn't work very well😅
where the problem is from ? my models ? my script ? some component ?

BTW sorry for the bad quality of the videos , I don't know why my fps rate is so low

[undone lark]

It can be fraom any of those things. The first question is, how are you moving your character?

[hollow timber]

give it a mesh collider

[jaunty patrol]

that the problem all the meshes have mesh collider

[jaunty patrol]

here is the code :

using UnityEngine;

public class DeplacementFPS : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float vitesseDeplacement = 5.0f;
    public float sensibiliteRotation = 2.0f;
    public float forceDeSaut = 10.0f;
    private bool peutSauter = true;


    private void Start()
    {
        Debug.Log("Start");
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        float deplacementHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")/3;
        float deplacementVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        Vector3 deplacement = new Vector3(deplacementHorizontal, 0, deplacementVertical) * vitesseDeplacement * Time.deltaTime;

        transform.Translate(deplacement);

        float rotationY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensibiliteRotation;
        transform.Rotate(0, rotationY, 0);

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && peutSauter)
        {
            RaycastHit hit;
            if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, out hit, 1.1f))
            {
                Rigidbody rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
                rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * forceDeSaut, ForceMode.Impulse);
                peutSauter = false;
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        peutSauter = true;
    }
}

[undone lark]

You cannot use .Translate to move physics objects. You need to be using .AddForce(...) for your colliders to work properly. You may want to find a tutorial on using rigidbody movement.

[jaunty patrol]

oh yes I see , thx a lot !

[hollow timber]

Anyone know of a fast way to get road splines onto terrain in unity? The road network I have is pretty complicated

I plan on doing highways by hand, but everything else can be automated

I don't care if I have to buy the tool

cause I'm about to go make them all by hand entirely in blender and I want to save myself from that pain xD

since most of them are just a flat plain

and if im doing it by hand, how do I manage it in the game? Do I slice everything up in pieces and create lods (even though most of it is a plane)? Do I set everything as one prefab? I know how to make a road, but what is the best practice for having roads?

like this is where I'm getting confused, this microverse guy has a spline tool but then he has a road tool, they both do the same thing on surface, and yet none of them explicitly say they let me import a shape file

all the tools are like that

then theres gaia gena, but I don't know if I need to own the latest version of gaia, same with microverse, do I need to own microverse and splines AND roads to do roads?

I'mma start pinging people lol

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/easyroads3d-pro-v3-469

This and plus its on sale

[jaunty patrol]

I modify my code , and I have no more collision issue, but now the more I advance, the more my caracter accelerates

using UnityEngine;

public class DeplacementFPS : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float vitesseDeplacement = 5.0f;
    public float sensibiliteRotation = 2.0f;
    public float forceDeSaut = 10.0f;
    private bool peutSauter = true;

    private Rigidbody rb;

    private void Start()
    {
        Debug.Log("Start");
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;

    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        rb.freezeRotation = true; 
        rb.useGravity = true;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        float deplacementHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float deplacementVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        Vector3 deplacement = new Vector3(deplacementHorizontal, 0, deplacementVertical) * vitesseDeplacement;

        rb.AddForce(transform.TransformDirection(deplacement), ForceMode.VelocityChange);

        float rotationY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensibiliteRotation;
        transform.Rotate(0, rotationY, 0);

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && peutSauter)
        {
            RaycastHit hit;
            if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, out hit, 1.1f))
            {
                rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * forceDeSaut, ForceMode.Impulse);
                peutSauter = false;
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        peutSauter = true;
    }
}

[magic cove]

Hey, I’m working on a game and I need a large terrain for it. I’m trying to figure out the best way to do this without it being too complicated or taking forever. I’m thinking about using Blender to generate a terrain mesh from a black and white image using a displace modifier, and then converting that into a terrain in Unity.

Another consideration is using either a self-made custom procedural terrain generation or leveraging a procedural terrain Unity asset pack, which might offer greater customization options. I'm a bit torn between these possibilities. What are your thoughts on the most efficient way to craft this map, thanks!

[rigid junco]

For easy snappy movement you can try directly setting rb.velocity instead of using AddForce

Wait why is this in the terrain channel

[jaunty patrol]

because at first it was a problem with colision and I solved the collision problem but it give me this issue with my caracter movement 😅

[tepid valve]

How can I reduce the density of a terrain painter detail brush?
it's way too many right now than intended

[rose sentinel]

Anyone have some resources where I can learn to use textures on terrain correctly? I feel like im doing random shit

I have a lot of textures I can use which ultimately makes it more difficult to make it look nice

so if anyone can direct me to a video or something that they found useful, cuz I dont even know what to google

[slender glen]

How do you get the detail draw distance even further than the settings allow for? There's a very hard line where the details stop drawing and it's not that far away from the camera

[fleet jasper]

I'm having a problem with the detail mesh tool. It doesn't paint my detail mesh.
(I'm using Unity 2019.4.40f1 becouse no newer version works on school computers, noone knows why. Techer doesn't know what the detail mesh problem might be so i'm asking here)

[slow turret]

Hello, I bought a Cyberpunk asset, and when I open it on Unity, it shows me pink, how to solve it?

[fleet jasper]

i think you click it and extract textures? Should be a button at the top of the mesh. Will work only if textures are part of the file, which depends. What file type is it?

[slow turret]

I find the problem, thanks

I open URP project

[safe basin]

Does Unity's Terrain Toolbox allow you to auto-assign textures based on slope and height like the old TerrainToolkit back in the day?

[compact ferry]

Any idea why my tree colliders don't work in 2023.3.0a15? I have capsule colliders on the tree prefab.

All my other collisions work for the same layer mask on other objects.

[fleet jasper]

Still looking for an answer to thiss pls

[supple grove]

where do i download assets for free ( context - i need a forest pack to make enviroment and it should be compatable with 3d urp )

[exotic wing]

Does anyone have the answer to this exact issue?

[last linden]

both have the same grouping id of 0 but they won't connect

i created the other terrain with this

i'm also getting this when selecting heigh tool

[last linden]

deleting library folder, removing and reimporting terrain tools yet nothing got fixed

[real crater]

hi, how do i make the trees spawn a bit lower so that they dont get out of the terrain

[last linden]

In blender or your 3d software make the origin point of the tree higher up the tree where you want it to touch the terrain

[real crater]

alright ty

[delicate pivot]

hey guys, what's the general perception around SECTR 2019? is it used? liked? hated?

[delicate pivot]

and also: are there any games launched that uses gaia?

[pliant vector]

I don't know if i am using the right jargon or wording, but is there a reason unity will stop responding when baking a navmesh? I have static, gizmos, and other stuff on and its on a 125x125 terrain and my laptop has way more than enough memory

[pliant vector]

Did you use anything other than the built in navmesh for your big world? Did you run into any issues baking?

Problem solved: i had to disable all other meshes for unity to get back to work

[storm leaf]

anyone know why this happens? (i apologize if this isn't the right channel)

the position that the editor logs is somewhere waaaay off where the object actually is, all things that point to the position get transported to the incorrect one indicated by the arrows

[civic hatch]

hello i am having an issue when i paint on the terrain sometimes it goes black. but i only see it when i turn on the lighting

[paper moss]

I'm using the World Streamer 2 asset at the moment and havent gotten around to navmesh stuff yet, I'm sure ill figure something out, might use the navmesh volume to bake it in chunks if that's possible

[pliant vector]

I'm also using that and i was wondering what others were using. Today was a day full of frozen scenes for me

After a certain amount of terrains in scene it starts to act up and wont even bake a single plane

[full thunder]

Failed to create Object Undo, because the action (PaintTextureTool - Texture) is too large. Clearing undo buffer.
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)
The problem is as in the photo I posted. There isn't much I can tell.
If the Control Texture Resolution is 1024x1024, the problem is solved. But the quality is decreasing.
How can I solve it?
If anyone knows and can help, thank you very much.

[civic hatch]

Hello can someone help me with my question

[civic hatch]

hello

[pliant vector]

The black terrain thing... are you using microsplat or urp?

Sometimes when what you are using has a limit of 8 per terrain wnd you are using number 9 that can happen with some assets or you are using more than specified it can do that. What terrain or painting/stamp assets are you using?

[civic hatch]

i was only able to use 4 textures until the black ones went away

[pliant vector]

Yeah you are using stuff over your limit. I use microsplat personally so I don't know the limitations and stuff on the basic unity terrain paint

[frail vector]

I have used the paint trees tool to paint same bushes on my terrain. I then went and changed my bush to have a sphere collider and then I set it to trigger, but when I go and try to trigger it with my player it interacts as a collider. Instead of my getting through it, I get blocked. Even weirder neither OnTriggerEnter, neither OnCollisionEnter works. Why is that, and is there a way to fix it or should I just hand place all the bushes?

[viral shuttle]

Hello, can anyone help me with this
Is there any easy way that I can combine these two terrains?
I cant seem to raise the terrain perfectly

[brittle knot]

Hi guys, i paint a dirt texture using unity terrain tool but i don't know when some of the textures that i add as new, when i paint it look alike a shiny white tint cover the actual texture...If somebody help this means appreciated !

[pliant vector]

Donor: Your terrain seems to be split. Are they neighbors? Is one a stamp?

@brittle knot can you show the textures inspector?

[copper veldt]

someone Can Help me with Tree shading?

its just a dark forest map but the trees just dont follow the shading of the terrain

[brittle knot]

i not sure but i use one terrain only in my scene

[pliant vector]

@brittle knot remove the last and see if it fixes itself. Also i see that pesky unity bug again. Also did you have any options to set smoothness or metallic? If so then lower those values

[brittle knot]

Alright I try

Thanks

[sly idol]

hey, is it possible to disable just specific details?

like, let's say I want to make a winter mode, and if player selects it then grass is gone, but the bushes just change texture, for example

[pliant vector]

Some people write scripts and some use weather assets like Enviro

If you use enviro and the vegetation engine you can also have them change colors or height for seasons

[sly idol]

I guess writing a custom script it is then, as Enviro seems out of budget. An interesting journey ahead of me, I can feel.

[night stream]

anyone us a detailed mesh for grass

[pliant vector]

I don't know how much enviro goes for, but most things go on sale. If you are states side then i would suggest something like uber eats on a weekend to fund assets if that is an option available

[sly idol]

Yeah... Maybe that is an option, but I guess for now I'll stick to my $0 budget for the game (0 spent 0 earned). It is quite an interesting learning opportunity though, doing all things myself.

[junior dawn]

hey, i have a problem with terrain and projector. when i project a texture on a terrain with greater terrain layer index than 4, the projector stops working. like it was burrowed under that terrain layer. ive tried searching but i couldnt seem to find anything related. is there any way of fixing this?

[novel monolith]

Hey, how can we take our terrain center at the world center ??
Is there any way to change the terrain position having (0,0,0) at the center not on the corner ??

[fair lily]

hi, im trying to use a height map of the moon to create some terrain, is it possible for me to use a little snippet of it? only thing is that i have no idea about is how much to set the terrain width length and height to

[steep hinge]

so the best thing imo is to break your terrain into square segments

also your moon picture is... an unwrapped sphere, which is maybe not ideal unless you modify it

then you'll need something 16 bit to convert your heightmap. photoshop works, paint.net doesn't, there was a browser one that worked but I can't remember its name for the life of me.

anwyay, you will want your heightmap sectors to be no larger than 2048x2048 so you can use your texture at 1:1 with the geometry

if you need to scale it you can do that later, but lightmaps won't play well with it... so you may need smaller or larger physical space but the control texture should match the heightmap resolution

then you need to calibrate your min and maximum height.

0 is the bottom, but that image looks like it has very little fully black pixels

so I would use photoshop again to find your darkest pixel, your brightest pixel, and decide how much elevation difference you want

so lets say your mid pixel is 128 light value... and max is 256 and you want the elevation deference to be 30 units... you need to make sure your max height is 60 not 30

between them*

because your darkest pixel being only 128 means its half the height of the map already.

but likely you will have overhead in your difference as well, then it gets more complicated...

another thing you may want to do is decide how many units in size you want your typical crater... then you can adjust the size according to the resolution in advacne which is almost certainly best

for example, this heightmap is only 1024x512... so I would suggest finding a bigger one... but you could use it and possibly scale it....

[steep hinge]

this big crater here is only 27 units across

im going to assume... thats not big enough

so you're going to have pretty low resolution terrain detail you will have to clean up

im bored, i wanna take a stab at it... sec lol

lets test with this...

256x256

this is the distribution of luminance

so I can adjust the image with the sliders to make the bell curve distributed better across the ranges but clipping the top and bottom.

something like this

Now lets see what we can do in unity...

https://www.photopea.com/ is the browser editor i just rememberd.

Export settings...

Looks interesting from above... using a max height of 30....

right...

so, how do we fix this?

we can constrain the height further, but if thats not okay we can also try scaling it up... or reduce the contrast in the map

Now I have limited the height to 5 and applied the map as a texture

its looking better... maybe... but its still very noisy

Raising it back up to 30 and smoothing it with the smooth tool kinda works... but it will all depend on how much detail and size you want

then you'll probably also want to make some different terrain textures and paint over it with something with more detail

otherwise your craters end up like this:

which idk, maybe you're going for a n64 look? 😄 but if not, there is a lot of work to be done, its not magic ^^;

[vale crag]

i have drawn a spline to make a road with it. Unity has a "Spline extrude" script which extrudes a tube, but i need a road. Is there an asset or something to extrude a road and not a tube?

[fluid tartan]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/easyroads3d-pro-v3-469

and it's on super cheap sale

[umbral marsh]

i have a problem

whenever i changing value

[sly pivot]

Is it best to merge one massive terrain to one terrain object, 10x10km or have them at 1000 each stitched together?

[lusty pumice]

Does anyone know the minimum resolution allowed for the holes texture?

[lusty pumice]

Found the answer. The resolution of the holes texture is equal to the resolution of the Terrain's heightmap - 1. The minimum heightmap resolution is 33 x 33, so the minimum holes resolution is 32 x 32.

[rigid junco]

It is likely that multiple smaller terrains will be better for performance

[shell jolt]

depends, without instancing that'd be the way to go
If you enable instancing for the terrain, it doesn't matter how big your terrain is, the drawcall will be very minimal

by default Unity terrain is doing arbitrary chunking, so without instancing toggled on the drawcalls will be massive on a huge terrain

[restive ravine]

!blender

[reef bay]

A supportive community for Blender artists of all levels. Share your work, ask for help, and learn from others! https://discord.com/invite/blender

[restive ravine]

apologies, needed the link

[sly pivot]

@shell joltI need the AI to walk around on the massive terrain even if I do not render it, will they be able to do pathfinding on a chunked terrain or instanced outside of render view?

[umbral marsh]

This

[hybrid wedge]

why is my terrain looking like chrome, all i did was use microsplat

[vapid jacinth]

hey ! this might be a dumb question, buy how do i make my level design consistent in terms of pixel ratio. for example, i have a 32x32 tileset for level design but i wanted to add a parallax background. however, the background isn't a 32x32 tileset, it's a pixel art background. when i add it the pixel ratio of the background, and for example the player has bigger pixels than the background. i know the solution is really simple but i rly can't put my hand on it (im new to unity btw, i know how to code but i'm tryna learn 2D level design)

[rose sentinel]

how can i change my terrain size

Even though I changed the scale size it still looks the same

[shell atlas]

Usually you add new tiles iirc.
I don't use terrain so I'm not positive

The leftmost button in the terrain component I think

[hybrid wedge]

Click on the terrain settings button. It's the rightmost one of the 5 buttons next to your right red arrow

There you can change the size iirc

[rose sentinel]

tysm for replies

[rose sentinel]

now i can change

[lusty pumice]

I think I have discovered a major bug with TerrainData.GetAlphamaps (Unity 2022.3.0f1), but want to make sure I'm not missing a huge bug in my code.

The bug that I believe exists: Calling GetAlphamaps for the entire Terrain returns an array with some quadrants of the terrain correct, and others reversed. By quadrants, imagine a terrain split into 4 equal sized parts. The bottom left and top right quadrants have the correct alphamap values, but the values for the top left quadrant are located in the alphamap where the bottom right quadrant is, while the values for the bottom right quadrant are located in the alphamap where the top left quadrant is. Simple example (2x2 alphamap):

Expected Alphamap values:
[.5, .2]
[.7, .3]

Actual Alphamap values returned by GetAlphamaps:
[.3, .2]
[.7, .5]

The thing is, if I call GetAlphamaps for a sub-region, the correct values are returned, i.e., GetAlphamaps(0, 1, 1, 1) would return the correct value of .5.

I have some pretty simple code to test the issue, which is basically calling TerrainData.GetAlphamaps twice, once for the entirety of the terrain and another time for a sub-region. The code compares the values from the sub-region against the values in the full terrain alphamap. Through other testing I have confirmed that the sub-region only alphamap is correct. Here's the code:

{
    //sourceData.alphamapWidth = 64 & sourceData.alphamapHeight = 64
    float[,,] sourceAlphamap = sourceData.GetAlphamaps(0, 0, sourceData.alphamapWidth, sourceData.alphamapHeight);
    int layers = sourceAlphamap.GetLength(2);
    int xStart = 0, yStart = sourceData.alphamapResolution / 2;
    int testRegionResolution = sourceData.alphamapResolution / 2;

    float[,,] testRegion = sourceData.GetAlphamaps(xStart, yStart, testRegionResolution, testRegionResolution);
    for (int x = 0; x < testRegionResolution; x++)
    {
        for (int y = 0; y < testRegionResolution; y++)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < layers; i++)
                Debug.Log($"x = {x}, y = {y}, i = {i}. Values Equal = {Mathf.Approximately(testRegion[x, y, i], sourceAlphamap[x + xStart, y + yStart, i])}");
        }
    }
}```

Am I missing something obvious with my testing code that is causing this issue?

[lusty pumice]

Also, to be clear this is not a floating point issue. The values from the testRegion and sourceAlphamap are completely different (0 vs 1, etc.).

[lusty pumice]

Okay, I have figured out what is going on. GetAlphamaps is actually completely correct. The issue is that in order to access the values, you need to use the y value as the first index and x value as the second. This makes sense in that this is usaully how 2/3D arrays are stored, however the problem is that Unity's documentation tells you to use x as the first index and y as the second: https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/TerrainData.GetAlphamaps.html. So basically, whoever wrote that made a mistake. Submitting a correction to the documentation now.

[ripe shard]

do you have postprocessing ? maybe about hdr or exposure settings. look at your directional light too, maybe too much intensity

I have a more general question: what tools do you use for creating realistic terrain? I see a lot of tools, but they are not free, and I like to understand what I'm making when I create terrain. I understand heightmaps and noise TIFF images, but I want to know what you use to paint textures in the right places on the terrain (like erosion and things like that). I tried using the brush mask filter (concavity setting), but it doesn’t look very realistic.

are you making your own scripts for that ?

[plush hamlet]

hi , is it possible to paint material on trrrain not a texture ??

i have a sonw material that I've made , can I paint it on terrain ?

[ripe shard]

If you want to paint your terrain, you will need a 2D texture (maybe convert your material), because the terrain has one material (the entire painted texture). I think a shader is the way to go, like with modular shader MicroSplat.

[winter minnow]

If your sprites are not supersampled (scaled up before importing), then using the same PPU value will standardize the pixel sizes
It's a bit hard to see but it looks like your background sprite is supersampled, and doesn't appear correctly because of it
This is a #🖼️┃2d-tools question, you'll get help quicker there for this

[pale igloo]

I'm running into an issue with my tilemap where it works perfectly moving up on the Y axis, but is shoddy at best for everything else. I'm using unity's built in transparency sort. Anybody know how to resolve this?

[winter minnow]

The "built in transparency sort" works on multiple priorities
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DSorting.html
You could use them to determine objects that are always below others, but another option (that works with it) is a custom sort axis
You'd probably always want water to be below, but tree sorting determined by player vertical position
Also, this is a 2D question so #🖼️┃2d-tools

[pale igloo]

Thank you

[winter minnow]

Just in case my wording was misleading; custom sort axis would make all object determine their sorting by verticality, so it's not something you'd manually have to control with scripts or the like

[pale igloo]

I’m currently using the custom sort and that’s what’s giving me this issue

I think I’ll just create a separate layer for water edge tiles and adjust the collider. Hopefully that’ll allow them to collide on the water part but still be walked over like normal otherwise. I’m not at my computer rn tho so I can’t test it

[winter minnow]

Iirc it works by sprite pivot point, which usually should be at the very bottom or "floor height" of each sprite so that they work consistently
Ground layers are a bit difficult with it though since they are the floor
Usually they can always be below, so you can put them on a lower sorting layer or order in layer so they'll ignore the custom axis sorting relative to characters

[pale igloo]

I tried changing the pivot point earlier but it also messed up my tilemap and didn’t really work. I saw people recommending setting it to bottom left/right but it still didn’t work

[tropic axle]

does anyone know how i can convert a mesh to a terrain?

[winter minnow]

The only way is to convert the mesh to a raw height map first, then apply that to the terrain

[tropic axle]

i couldnt find any tutorials on how to do that, but i found this: https://www.lmhpoly.com/tutorials/convert-mesh-to-unity-terrain
on the third step it tells me to "select Terrain > Object To Terrain at the top toolbar" which i literally do not have even though i followed every other step beforehand. could you help me on that?

[winter minnow]

Did you get the script that the tutorial uses

[tropic axle]

yea

i put it in the editor folder

is there a specific unity version i need to be using?

[winter minnow]

That's possible
The tutorial is for Unity 5
That's over 8 years old by now

[crystal oracle]

Hi, does anyone know how to fix this issue, my light doesnt affect objects in my scene, only enviroment around it(terrain)

[winter minnow]

Mostly to do with the material/shader of the meshes
Not related to Terrain considering that part is working correctly

[crystal oracle]

okay, what sshould I do with material

im using Unlit/Texture to get this old look but then it doesnt recognize light

[naive gust]

I made grass in blender and when I try to paint it in unity its sideways. Anyone know why this would be?

[final snow]

I had the same problem for five minutes ago, see this video 😄
https://youtu.be/CD4C0AvLxP4?si=ssc4uVPnLrMxFbxZ

[naive gust]

hey thanks! i just saw this!

[magic meadow]

any idea how i can make the mountains look better?

[winter minnow]

Add dragons to take attention away from the bland mountain
Or maybe some interesting textures, or detail meshes like cliff faces or foliage

[magic meadow]

dragons? XDDDD

[winter minnow]

Sounds a bit silly, but it's actually true that you don't have to put a lot of care and detail into something that you can trick the players/viewers to glance over

[little raft]

I have a problem with painting details tab when trying to add a "detail" to paint.

"In the Inspector, click the Edit Details button" -Unity Documentation.

I don't see this button anywhere.
I'm using 2022.3.6f1 version of unity.

[magic meadow]

i would help you but mine looks different XD

ah i have the same editor

idk why it looks different

[sly pivot]

So, V Rising split their world into chunks using scenes. Is there a workflow to do the same? Like, how do you make a mountain seamlessly blend into chunk 2 from chunk 1. Can I create the entire world in one scene and split it up after?

[little raft]

It appears that unity's terrain tools package doesn't work with painting details so I just had to remove it and now everything works.

[magic meadow]

ah

[rose sentinel]

I have maps, but does anyone have any advice on how to make a map-based game?

[winter minnow]

Go wild, your imagination is the limit?

[grizzled lake]

Did Unity 2023 fcked up something with vertex Coloros/Polybrush?
My whole terrain and some shaders using vertex colors are broken after upgrading 😄

[winter minnow]

Looks pretty gruesome!
I would've imagined that polybrush saves the vertex colors to mesh data so they can't spontaneously change afterwards
Upgrades are always risky so hopefully you have backups

[grizzled lake]

I dont think that i can fix that with a backup.
But maybe i could have a look how to save the vertex color somehow for future updates ^^

Maybe by exporting the PolybrushMesh to Blender and create a new FBX out of it.

[winter minnow]

Why couldn't it be fixed? I assume it's a change to the asset

[grizzled lake]

my guess is, that like you said, polybrush did something with the PolybrushMesh.

i guess i have to go back to unity 2021 via version control and save the old mesh somehow to fix that.

[winter minnow]

If anything it's often much better to import your game as assets into a freshly created project on the new version rather than upgrading

[grizzled lake]

You mean exporting the whole project as unity asset, install new project and import this asset to the new version?

[winter minnow]

Yes, but not the "whole project", just the scripts and assets necessary for the game

[grizzled lake]

Good to know for the future.
But i guess only for major updates like 2022 > 2023?

@winter minnow

[winter minnow]

Yes
With patches (the third version number) I wouldn't worry
The upgrading the middle number from .1. or .2. is a bit so-so

[grizzled lake]

Alright.
I guess after releasing the game, i wouldnt take the risk of upgrading anyway 😄

Thanks!

[grizzled lake]

Funny.. "Undo" the changes on the Terrain Scene fixed the Vertex-Color Problems.
Dont know how, but it did.

[vivid kettle]

Hopefully this makes sense, but is there a way to remove the ridge when using the Stamp feature of the terrain? Settings wise I have it set to Set and Blend = 0.

The first picture shows that the stamp is larger/higher than the cliff, but when trying to stamp into the cliff, it includes the ridge and raises it all up, instead of just applying the height over the top where applicable.

I know it's something Gaia can do, but if possible I'd like to use built in (this is with Terrain Toolbox too)

[tribal prairie]

if anyone wants to continue helping where he stopped it would be appreciated i have no idea how to do what he said 💀 idk where or what thats supposed to mean

[exotic wing]

Terrains are stored in files, so if two terrains use the same file, when you change one the other one will change too

Just duplicate the terrain file, and use it on another terrain. Aso why would you want to make it a prefab

Its unnecessary

[tribal prairie]

hey i fixed it thanks for the help tho fr hes the one that went on about prefabs i didnt say anything about them

[fair cipher]

Im new to game dev, Is there a better way to do this? 😭

[winter minnow]

What's "this" in this case?

[fair cipher]

Sorry, The platforms, is there a way to make it more "cleaner"? Rather than having hundreds of duplicates?

[winter minnow]

Hundreds of duplicates aren't by themselves an issue, but you'll probably want to make them into prefabs before you start duplicating them

That way you can modify the base prefab later to apply changes to all of them

[fair cipher]

Ah thanks ill try it out.

[winter minnow]

You can also have prefabs consisting of prefabs, such as a group of islands you want to reuse
None of it cuts down the number of gameobjects, but makes them more organized and a bit easier to build levels with

There's also the option of "gameobject tiles" but those are only for if you specifically want/need to work with the tilemap painting tools

[exotic wing]

Guys how do i do triplanar mapping on the default unity terrain system??

There is no option for it in terrain settings or the terrain textures i use

Is there a way tosomehow do it with shadergraph? On built in terrain?

[winter minnow]

Only if you recreate the whole Terrain shader in SG
Unfortunately it uses features that are unavailable to SG

[exotic wing]

Like splatmaps and the terrain holes?

[winter minnow]

Those aren't the problem, but rather how many texture samples it requires to support so many layers

[exotic wing]

So cant we make a texture 2d array?

[winter minnow]

The Terrain is rendered in multiple passes past a certain number of texture layers, which you can't do with custom shaders

Triplanar mapping requires even more texture samples, three per texture afaik

[exotic wing]

Sooo how is it done?

Sorry i can not be bothered to create rock and cliff models

[winter minnow]

That'd be much easier

You'd first have to track down instructions how to recreate Terrain shader in SG normally, then figure out how to modify it as needed

[exotic wing]

Well nevermind then

Off to blender and substance i go

[winter minnow]

I tried doing it at some point but gave up

[sly pivot]

Where is the terrain tint option depending on height option? I can't find it, for some reason my terrain gets this color:

[winter minnow]

I have never spotted an option like that in the Terrain component
Let me know if you find it

[shell jolt]

is there any good changes in recent versions for Unity's terrain package?

[copper bear]

Is better to place grass as individual gameobjects or to make them part of the Terrain foliage? Which one is more performant?

[quartz spade]

hello, im trying to learn unity and i need a meshed terrain like this because unity's models are so clear that i cant distinguish the objects

[exotic wing]

Create a terrain texture with a grid texture and then put it in your terrain layers

[quartz spade]

thanks

[iron dew]

is there a way to paint with a material and not a texture? or a way to convert a material to a 2d texture

[ancient bloom]

Does anyone know why it could be that the road mesh can be seen through the terrain's trees?

Another problem I have is that the terrain in the minimap appears above the road, while in the player camera it doesn't

[lyric vortex]

how to i stop it looknig smooth I use TERRAIN
sorry for my bed english I use google translate

@ancient bloom

[lyric vortex]

@iron dew

[iron dew]

yes?

[delicate needle]

use a Opacity of 100 when painting the textures i guess, and use a solid brush

[lyric vortex]

I'm using that 😁

[delicate needle]

i have my doubts.. can you show a screenshot of the brush settings?
the terrain layers shouldn't be fading into each other if both of the points i made are being respected, if it still does then it's weird.
i never had this happening when using a max opacity and a solid brush 😵‍💫

ok, i just tested it by myself, it does fade between the layers even with solid brush and max opacity, seems like i just didn't notice it

[lyric vortex]

Ok 🆗

[delicate needle]

apparently, after doing some research on google

you need a custom terrain shader for that, but idk how accurate that is

another thing you could do is to increase your "Control Texture Resolution" under Terrain Settings -> Terrain Resolution, but that might impact performance and it's not a perfect solution. at a resolution of 4096 the blur isn't really noticable

Control Texture Resolution - 1024x1024 vs 4096x4096

[lyric vortex]

Thank you

[delicate needle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jP3_FKOEE&t=7s
this might be helpful as well, even if you're not going for a Toon look, the part about having sharp edges could be relevant.
and apparently, if we can believe Google, if you use URP there should be a "Height-Based Blending" option available, which you could simply disable, but i don't know if this is true 😄

[thorny rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSD7w1W9dt4&ab_channel=Farrukh3D does anybody know how I can get large realistic rocks like this without sacrificing texture quality?

I could bake my texture quality in blender higher, but its not very efficient, or practical

[foggy jacinth]

Is Pen Pressure supported on Terrain at Editor level, when designing?

[foggy jacinth]

Probably Layered Materials, or Tiling Mitigation, such as Cell Bombing or overlayed Decals. Perhaps UDIMs

[copper stratus]

the whole terrain looks same and it looks like 2014 roblox textures

how can I fix it, that the texture looks realistic

[winter minnow]

Is your goal to make endless rolling hills of grass, or will there be foliage or buildings as well?
Your texture is not very well repeating, but in most cases if there is foliage and other objects, the repetition won't be noticeable anyway

If you need a lot of big plain lawn where it will be visible, you would need a texture that has had all those repetitions carefully hidden, or even look into shaders that rearrange the UVs to break up any pattern

[thorny mason]

Not sure which thread to ask this in: Has anyone used ArcGIS with Unity before to create 3D Maps? I've gone through the "getting started" part and successfully completed the tutorial which was about creating a Map and applying a 3D layer on top of it that had buildings. Although the buildings do not have textures. I'm trying to do a similar thing but with textures.

[winter minnow]

Entirely unfamiliar with arcgis but there's very little compatibility with Unity's materials and other 3D programs' materials so usually you'll just need to create a new material asset and assign the correct textures

[thorny mason]

Gotcha, that's good to know. Thanks!

[winter minnow]

There's usually some way to "embed materials" and then extract them in unity to automate that step but the process varies by program

[thorny mason]

Yeah, I know some 3D modelers and technical art people that know how to do that, although ArcGIS wats me to upload the 3D models on it's site, then I import them using the Map Creator based on the latitude and longitude. Kinda fussy.

[dapper gorge]

been stuck on how to design a toonish terrain for the whole week, this video gave me some light. im not using unity yet, just learning art in general, but this video just casted some light on my mind.

i find it very hard to find resources on toonified terrain, u usually have to rely on playing/seeing what other games are doing

[delicate needle]

that looks cool! i have nooooo skill with shaders

[dapper gorge]

theres no shader. Im a huge fan of the gradient technique, its all texture

tho im finding it pretty hard to test and experiment with terrain

this is all blender btw

[delicate needle]

pretty cool, it has it's own stylized look

[wheat hemlock]

Any way someone can help me figure out this thing with terrains?

Here is my situation..

I want change the terrain size... how exactly can I go about this by changing all of the tiles as one large size? or does it have to be each individual tile?

[rose sentinel]

Hey!

Does anyone know why all my terrain drawing is so bumpy?

Even on low opacity it makes it super bumpy

Using the smooth tool on full opacity doesn't change anything

Forget that

Does anyone know how to make a circular terrain?

Similar to skylander islands

[delicate needle]

you could use the Terrain Holes feature to give your Terrain a circular shape.
but, not sure about that, but Skylander probably doesn't use a Terrain System for the Environment, it looks more like different Island Meshes, stuff like that could be done within Blender or with a Procedural approach.

[rose sentinel]

This is the worst part

I am quite bad at blender, I cannot even texture paint

This is my attempt at texture painting this stupid island

I was struggling for a solid hour with @copper bear

And neither of us could get it to work.

[delicate needle]

not sure if Polybrush is still a thing

[rose sentinel]

it doesn't work.

[delicate needle]

but if yes, you should be able to use it to paint the Mesh inside the Editor

[rose sentinel]

yeah

but i'm struggling to add terrain detail to that as well 🥲

are you proficient at blender?

[delicate needle]

no, not really proficient, i'm only able to do the basics 😄

[rose sentinel]

ah

do you know how to make floating islands 🥲

i'm looking for a 3d moddeler

Cause we've got all the 2d art but none of the 3d terrain :C

[lyric vortex]

Oh, I’m-a sorry, but I’m only-a good at jumping and-a collecting stars. Maybe Toad could-a help you...

[brittle comet]

Hi

[velvet cosmos]

Is there no way to control layer opacity directly in Unity for terrains?

[rose sentinel]

Hey!

Does anyone know how to make a circle on terrain?

I'm trying to get my shooter enemy to draw a red circle on the terrain where he is going to shoot

But the tutorials online don't use URP which can't use surface shaders

[winter minnow]

This shouldn't require shaders
Try decal projectors

[glass galleon]

is there a way to increase optimisation on large amounts of grass?

[rose sentinel]

Sure

[desert rock]

GPU instancing

[winter minnow]

Terrain trees and foliage by default are already instanced, I believe
There's not particularly much you can do to make them run faster, besides utilizing less detailed meshes, LODs and billboards

[glass galleon]

i decreased the detail range and increased the fog

seemed to work

thanks for the advice though

[winter minnow]

Rendering less of something is always an option to make it render cheaper

[vast cloud]

Anyone here have intermediate+ skills with unity auto-tiling (rule tile)?

[winter minnow]

Ask your question in #🖼️┃2d-tools and don't ask to ask

[vast cloud]

Sorry, don’t ask to ask?

[winter minnow]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[shut rune]

I am trying to create I 2d pixel art style in 3d, I have a toon shader with 2d pixelization but I can't apply it to a terrain without it covering the textures that are painted. How can I make it so I can't get that effect on the terrain but also paint on it. I understand the shader I have is not build for terrain but how can I make it so it is for terrain.

[alpine mist]

Hello! I'm quite new to Unity overall, I've been wanting to create a map as a mod for a game I've been playing :)
I've looked at a few tutorials and I've gotten a general feel of how I want the map to look. I've set up my own little sticky-notes of what area should include what and the general look and feel of the areas :)
Now, an issue I have is that I want to make cliff overhangs. The cliff begins at the base of the terrain, and goes up horizontally in a NW direction, making it so essentially if you're right at the beginning of the cliff at ground level, the cliff would be right above you. Here is a sub-optimal Paint drawing that I made to give some visual explanation XD

Now, I don't actually know how to do this and can't seem to figure it out by myself, hence why I'm asking here for help :0
I'm wondering if anyone of you talented people may know a solution to my problem :)

[unreal ferry]

my textures are looking funky and i was wondering if any body can help me this is them in unity

and this is the look im going for:

[cobalt jasper]

on the texture, set filter mode to point

[inland jetty]

Terrain can't have overhangs like this.

The terrain has a heightmap: a texture where each pixel defines how high the terrain is at that point

it's not like sculpting an arbitrary shape in Blender

[alpine mist]

Alright so, in that case

Is it possible to use like paint terrain on objects?

Like, could I make rocks and "ground" using like a cube? With the right dimensions

[inland jetty]

you could make a model of a cliff, sure

[alpine mist]

And then just add the textures I want on top of that? I know there are grass meshes that I have from the Asset Store that I could use to make it look more natural

[inland jetty]

you could then shape the terrain so that the cliff fits into the surrounding terrain

[alpine mist]

Ah, alright I'll try and do that :)

Thanks for the help!

Objects can be rotated right? :o

I might also use that method to make a path up the mountain

Making nice looking paths using the terrain tool is... complicated to say the least.

Especially if they aren't just flat paths

[inland jetty]

well, of course -- every game object has a transform, and every transform can be rotated

[alpine mist]

Alright nice! Thank you

[winter minnow]

Terrain itself is a notable exception to this

Weirdly enough

[inland jetty]

True! I forgot about that

[stable patrol]

how do i fix the texture streching on my terrain?

[rose valve]

I created a terrain that I like and want one that is very similar but with slight changes to it. I have duplicated it and moved it to a different scene and made some changes but when I went back to my original terrain it also made the changes. I played around with the terrain data stuff but I can't seem to figure it out. Anyone know how to stop themfrom both being the same so I can have two seperate terrains where I make changes to one the other won't be affected?

[exotic wing]

You cant, you would need to use triplanar shaders which, trying to get that working on the terrain system is a pain in the ass.
People usually cover up these cliffs, using models(rocks, vegetation, etc)

Alternatively you can use terrain creation assets on the asset store instead of the unity terrain system.

[exotic wing]

Terrain data is stored in files, the two terrains you have are both using the same file, which is the reason both of them get modified when you modify one. Try duplicating the original terrain file and assigning it to the second terrain game object.

[steep hinge]

It used to be easily possible to just put a texture on your terrain, like if you had some kind of road map or something to follow as a template

now I can't seem to do that anymore

Im sure its still possible.... what did they change, how do I accomplish this

[steep hinge]

I literally did this easily a few weeks ago and now its not working...

[rose valve]

I realized that I was assigning different terrain data’s but I think it might have just been for the texture or something but once I dragged the whole different terrain data onto my scene it worked and didn’t both have same changes. Thank you

[molten bluff]

hy

what the f wrong happening here? im painting texture on the terrain , but it's getting painted like pixel

any idea what's wrong here?(the painted part is procedurally generated using mapmagic)

huh , got it

had to increase the control texture resolution

[delicate relic]

total noob question guys, how do i cast shadows i though i enable it it seems not visible

[delicate relic]

i cant cast shadows

[winter minnow]

Your meshes must have shadow casting enabled, and the shader must support shadow casting and receiving
Most toon shaders don't

Additionally shadows are rendered only up to shadow distance defined in quality settings, so the camera can't be too far away either

More relevant question for #archived-lighting, no Terrain or world building tools are involved here

[rigid junco]

Terrain splatmaps are literally stored in pixels

[molten bluff]

yeah

[unreal ferry]

where is filter mode?

nvm i got it

[open vigil]

Is there any way to use the terrain paint tool to draw a shader material on a terrain?

[rose sentinel]

Is there any way i could crop a terrain with the outline of a map i drew ?

Let's just say this is the map I drew (it's the UK)

How could use that outline and get my terrain to have this shape ?

[winter minnow]

No

[open vigil]

What about painting objects that contain VFXgraphs?

[winter minnow]

Not to my knowledge
Terrain painting produces a splatmap texture
That splatmap texture is read by the Terrain shader to blend between texture samplers, and to determine where detail meshes are instanced
Nothing beyond that, unless you make your own system that reads the splatmap

Because function to use the splatmap for texturing is within the shader code itself, it can't be used to apply different shaders
And as the code reads the splatmap only the determine where to instance meshes on the GPU

Which means they have no gameobject representation

[civic valley]

How to increase the visibility of trees for terrain?

[winter minnow]

There's a slider for it in terrain settings

[glad pendant]

I feel like I'm running into a wall concerning the "paint trees" part of the terrain tool:
I thought I'd use a procedurally generated tree prefab to paint over my terrain to get random trees, but while I can change the seed in the prefab it always paints the same tree with the same seed with the terrain tool. Is this normal?

[sleek jackal]

hello, I need help I have a free tree asset named "Conifers [BOTD] (default asset) I saw it in a youtube video and the animations seemed quite smooth, but when I import them and put the trees into the terrain the animations seem very bad, and the trees seem to run at 2 fps, My computer aint the issue as it should be capable of running a couple trees no issue, so IDK what the problem is. Is it maybe a setting?

[strong rapids]

Hello, i'm currently develloping an procedural map. I made it and now, according to the height, i want to apply differents textures/shaders/materials to my mesh. My mesh is directly generate in the code and i wante to know how can i do that. Thank you !

[gentle grail]

Is there any way to apply a different material other than URP/Terrain/Lit to the material? I'm especially trying to make use of a shader made from the shader graph from the terrain to get cel lighting
Thanks

[devout knoll]

does anybody know how to fix this bug?

[jaunty patrol]

I made a script that make a grid of 3D tiles and generate random roadtiles. Do you know if their is any way to place the tiles logically , for exemple put road tiles to continue the road and avoid just having road tile place randomly. like what we can do with the tile systeme in 2D .

[zinc valve]

any fixes?

it even has lod group

[honest cloak]

my grass is standing wrong how do i fix this?

(i know they are huge blade of grass, i want them to stand up before i carry on tho)

[honest cloak]

still havent got it working

[zinc valve]

bruv does this channel even have helpers

[spiral garden]

Remove the lod group.🤷‍♂️
It tells you that it's unsupported.

[zinc valve]

makes sense

[winter minnow]

There seems to be a lot of people using Terrain still
Don't know why they don't stick around to help each other as well

[snow kite]

why does my terrain have theese black artifacts?
https://gyazo.com/d0d0fe82d07380415f6461ea51b31d31

changing the pixel error value makes them disappear but when I move my camera they reapear again :/

[desert rock]

why does the terrain layer draw weirdly when i try to paint it, it only happens with the layers past the 4th one

im on URP btw

[snow kite]

Im not sure about URP but HDRP only support up to 8 textures, maby URP has the same stupid problem

[desert rock]

i read this in the docs

they "reccomend" to not go over 4 layers

but it seems to simply not let you go over 4

[snow kite]

got to love that recommendation 😂

[mint sphinx]

Guys does anyone know how I can save a procedurally generated terrain as an object or a scene?

I'm generating terrain but im not sure where that data goes or how to keep it to use later

[rigid junco]

Maybe these will help https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.terrain-tools@4.0/manual/toolbox-export-heightmaps.html

Though it seems to be for the textures only (splatmaps+heightmaps)

The terrain's data is stored in a TerrainData asset

One should be created automatically when you create a terrain in the scene

[molten bluff]

is there any method or asset using which I can set a limit to "set height" of the terrain upto a mesh collider under it? like a plane under the terrain, and when lowering terrains height, the terrain wont be lowered beyond the plane

[solar swan]

you can do terrain edits with scripting, so technically you can make such a tool quite easily yourself

[plush hamlet]

hi,
how do I duplicate a terrain with seperate materials ?
when i make changes to the new terrain, it also reflects to the old one :S

I tried to add a layer of snow on some and the older one was supposed to stay green as its. but as soon as I picked the snow layer on the new one the old one also turned into snow :S

[fresh bronze]

So when making an environment such as a forest, is it better to create it in blender or unity itself?

[solar swan]

Depends on how big it is and how it looks. Typically you make assets in blender (foliage, rocks, props, trees) and arrange them in unity, but you can mix that up if you have a good reason.

[proud python]

It may seem incredibly simple, but how do I move a terrain, (if I can)

[fresh bronze]

Alr got it thanks

[solar swan]

Move it’s transform

[proud python]

I’ve tried

[wispy token]

guys i have a question. when i have a map e.g 2k x 2k made with 512x512 terrain chunks and the heighmap resolution is set to 4k do i notice any performance impact when teh game is top down?

[solar swan]

yes, thats a very big terrain

mind that unity has no terrain streaming, so you are loading all that terrain, no matter what the camera can see or where it is located, which consumes a lot of memory, 512 MB just for the heightmaps and multiples of that for splatmaps and other helper textures.

[plush hamlet]

Does anyone know how to duplicate the terrain correctly ???
i have a terrain that I have duplicated it and duplicated its data with different name ofc but yet any changes I do to the new one effects the old one .... not sure how they're still connected

also Im getting this

[solar swan]

duplicate the data asset, then duplicate the terrain in the scene view, then switch the inspector to debug mode, and drag&drop your duplicated terrain data asset into the duplicated terrain gameobject's data-property

unity does not want you to duplicate terrains 😉

[solar swan]

thats easily fixed by clicking the "assign" button

[plush hamlet]

if I do that , it addes the old terrain data back :S

[solar swan]

do the other thing first obviously

[plush hamlet]

Didnt work 😦 , i tried duplicating the terrain first then the data .>> failed , then data first then the terrain .... also failed 😦

[solar swan]

then you're not doing it right

[plush hamlet]

how am i doing it wrong ? ..

[solar swan]

idk, this totally works, done it 100s of times

you can try making a new terrain instead of duplicating the terrain in scene view and copy the properties manually

to be sure

then delete the now unused data-asset of that new terrain

[plush hamlet]

is it possible to copy the exact high and low points ?

like all the hills and mountains

[solar swan]

thats all stored in the data asset

you can also export the heightmap to a raw-image

[plush hamlet]

I fixed it , the game object must match the file name

[plush hamlet]

thanks ❤️

[wispy token]

Thx, so even when u banke with bake occlusion culling? So what does it min with 512mb heighmaps. If i have 16 terrains a 512x512 all with 4k heighmaps i have 16x4k mb?

[solar swan]

Occlusion culling doesn’t fix memory problems. You would need world streaming to fix that, which Unity doesn’t have.

Depending on your exact settings you'll have:

16 Heightmaps, each 4097 x 4097 px x 2 bytes per sample 
= 16 * 4097 * 4097 * 2 bytes
= 537133088 bytes
= 512.25 MB

4 texture layers, requiring 16 splatmaps, each 4097 x 4097 px x 4 bytes per texel 
= 16 * 4097 * 4097 * 4 bytes 
= 1074266176 bytes 
= 1024.5 MB

More layers, more memory.

for a 512x512 meter chunk of terrain you'd need no more than a 1k height/splatmap, that would give you 0.5 m resolution and would be what you'd typically see in a AAA game. Some go to 2k for 0.25 m resolution, but that is extreme any only done if you have great streaming. 0.125 m resolution, like in your settings is overkill. You could probably get away with 1m resolution depending on the visual style and overall art pipeline capability in your project.

[wispy token]

i tried sectr. but its overkill for a 2k x 2k map. so what can you recomment for a terrain that size? are 512x512 chunks good? i dont think i need to stream a 2k x 2k map for a top down game

the point why i ask for 4k heighmap resolution is. i use heighmap like y 0 where player walk and y2 for mountains as border. with lower heighmap resolution it looks bad

[solar swan]

you're conflating size with resolution here, streaming (via sectr or something homebrew) is by no means overkill. Depending on what you put on the map and your target hardware you might need it for even smaller maps.

[wispy token]

that i wanted to increase the heighmap resolution. but 4k is maybe to much. 2k would be enough

[solar swan]

if you want to make a small game that doesn't need to deal with memory, make 1 terrain, 2k size, 2K resolution

if you must, make 1 terrain with 4k resolution, thats it, beyond that you'll get painful authoring experience in unity

[wispy token]

so maybe better to have only one terrain 2k x 2k

and increase resolution to 2k also

i try that

[solar swan]

and FYI occlusion culling on a large map is way too expensive, you'd be better off with sectr & co. + manual triggers here too

[wispy token]

i just want to stream chunk obkects but not the terrain

it leads to issue in my game since its networked

player falling through ground ec

[solar swan]

well, world streaming in unity doesn't work properly, no matter what you do you'll get frame-drops during object instantiation, and you need to do a lot of manual work to avoid, mask it or spread it out.

[solar swan]

the player can't fall through missing terrain that's 1 km away

[wispy token]

on init load

but anyway i tried sectr streaming 2k x 2k map with 256 chunks and it was overkill. and lead to bad fps. even developer of sectr told me its bad using sectr for only 2k x 2k map

[solar swan]

yes

256 chunks is overkill, not the 2k map

thats 128 meters per chunk

also you don't do streaming for FPS, you do it to fit your game into memory and maybe for very coarse occlusion culling

[wispy token]

yea i have no experience in terrain. my idea was to use sectr to load undload chunks when needed. since i have alot of objects in my 2kx2k map

i just notice i cant use a sinlge terrain of 2k x 2k. because i want to have diffrent biomes and 4 textures to paint is to less

so i need to split it to 512x512 chunks

[heavy birch]

anyone know why these lines are here when i am adding fog

[solar swan]

You can have more than 4 layers. Using multiple materials on the terrains is also less than ideal. You can also have a look at https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/microsplat-96478

[wispy token]

I use interra asset

When i usr more than 4 textures i cant use all the features

[brittle wave]

hii

can someone please help me make a terrain in the shape of elysium(Movie) world

i have used the mesh method but it cant build roads or spawn trees like in terrain.

[rose sentinel]

hey all I made a Rigidbody controller and when i mess around with terrain the player can just slide up it is there a simple fix for this?

[verbal lichen]

If i were to make a large map for a driving game with mountainous roads cities/towns, tunnels etc

What would be the best way to go about it?

One of my ideas was to use something like Gaea to create a large landscape, Then draw a map onto the landscape where roads, cities etc will be

Like nature

But then it becomes alot more random and different from what i would imagine in my head i assume

[digital plaza]

Simplest fix is to use the built in CharacterController component (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.html) and adjust the slopeLimit (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController-slopeLimit.html). How that may or may not work with your current Rigidbody controller will depend on your specifics.

[digital plaza]

Idk about Gaea, but I've used Gaia from Procedural Worlds. You can get really specific with your spawners, stampers, rules and masks to create the exact look you want. I assume Gaea is the same. Just because it helps automate the placement process doesn't mean you lose creative control.

[verbal lichen]

They seem to be very different, Gaia looks alot less realistic but seems alot more optimized for Unity Games

the biggest problem for me is sort of drawing out an actual 2D map of where roads, towns etc should be

i feel like once you know exactly what the layout of the map is gonna look like in a flat 2D top down image its much easier to turn it into a 3D world

[rose sentinel]

yeah think i might rewrite it with the CharacterController

ughhhh wish i didn't already do so much movement based things

[digital plaza]

if you don't want to switch, you could probably write some logic that looks at the upcoming delta in your character's Y position. if it's greater than what you want to allow, don't move the player.

[honest cloak]

i have a problem with painting grass on my terrain which causes it to paint amount of grass over my door object causing masive fps loss and a tone of invisible grass on my door and dont know how to fix it, hiding the door while paining doesnt fix it either

[digital plaza]

Yeah, Gaia seems super different from Gaea, I've only used the former. It's not necessarily more optimized for Unity, it still comes down to the way you use it, what kinds of assets you give it, etc. You could check out GeNa from Procedural Worlds for an easy way to create road and river systems. I like to change my scene view to orthographic top-down perspective, then quickly lay out my road system like I'm drawing on a 2D map.

[digital plaza]

Hi, you might have better luck getting a response here if you leave a specific, well-scoped question, like "does anyone know of a unity road system they'd recommend". Asking "can someone help me make a world" is a pretty big request to ask strangers, tbh.

[verbal lichen]

i agree, Tbh Gaia by Procedural Worlds seems to give off that Unity Smooth Terrain look which i don't like at all and would like to stray away from. I'm gonna continue looking around for an alternative, Stuff like Gaea, World Creator etc give off a much more realistic rough look to the environment but as you said that depends on how you use it

my plan is to go into blender and reduce the poly count where its not needed and keep it mid-high poly on the roads where the player will be

[verbal lichen]

the problem right now is i have 0 clue how cities, countrysides, highways, moutainous roads etc are designed lol

[digital plaza]

Like just from an artistic perspective? I'm not a 3D artist, but I'd recommend just doing a deep dive on photography websites

[verbal lichen]

No from like an Urban Planning perspective

[digital plaza]

Yeah, I hate that look lol. That's pretty much a result of your heightmap resolution. No matter if you're using a tool, or sculpting yourself, if you're using a low hm res, it'll look smooth. But if you up it to 2048 or higher, then use a detailed RAW heightmap file, you'll get that roughness you're after. Unfortunately, then you have more verts to render, so it's a performance tradeoff, if that's a concern.

[digital plaza]

ah gotcha. i don't know anything about that lol

[verbal lichen]

Yep lol, i'm trying to figure out a way to create an island with 0 urban planning background 🤣

[digital plaza]

is this for a game?

[verbal lichen]

honestly might just say f it and start drawing stuff around till it starts to connect

[verbal lichen]

Yeah im just making a simple driving game and wanna make an interesting map to explore

[digital plaza]

awesome

honestly, yeah just go for it. unless you're trying to make a hyper realistic sim or something, don't worry about all that stuff. just go with what's interesting and fun

i understand the impulse to do that kind of research lol but something i think it hinders the creative process

[verbal lichen]

The funny thing is that there's a bunch of "Fantasy Map" creation sites but no one bothered to make one for real life maps lol

https://worldspinner.com/fantasyWorldMaps.html

This one for example

[dusk viper]

Anyone knows how can I fix this line that appears when light moves? Y is the same

[wooden vault]

do painted trees' shaders still work? for example a displacement shader

[winter minnow]

Looks like there are visible gaps between your meshes
Holding V enables vertex snapping, which may help when moving the pieces but the meshes need to be authored with exact measurements

[icy drift]

I need help with my Unity Trees, please!

I'm using Unity URP 2022.3.10f1, and my Unity Trees won't blow with any wind whatsoever! I don't know what to do

[desert rock]

if they do when you add a tree to the pallete you will see a bend factor field in the add tree menu, if its not there it means your trees dont support wind

[icy drift]

I did this even for the unity tree builder, and they still don’t work

[digital plaza]

anyone know what unity version first included a terrain system? was it Unity 5? or even earlier?

[undone lark]

According to docs, 5.2

[unborn reef]

anyone know how to fix this? (tree in the middle was manually place, while the others using unity terrain system)

[digital plaza]

thank you! out of curiosity, would you mind sharing where in the docs you found that info? I wasn't able to find it, but I clearly didn't look hard enough

[undone lark]

Just went to the docs and looked how far back the version went.

[digital plaza]

Wow, TIL that was a dropdown, thank you!

[hybrid cedar]

Hi! Is it normal for my terrain brush to be so clunky and unprecise? It's extremely hard to do any details with it

[molten bluff]

what is the keyboard shortcut of controlling the tree density and brush size of tree painting in unity terrain?

is there any?

[rigid junco]

Not sure, but check you can find it from the shortcut manager https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnityHotkeys.html searching for terrain

[digital plaza]

That might be your Heightmap Resolution. Go to the Terrain component, then click on Terrain Settings (on the far right of the toolbar). Scroll down to the Texture Resolutions (On Terrain Data) section. Try increasing the Heightmap Resolution to a higher value.

Note that the higher that value, the more vertices will potentially be sent to your GPU, if performance is a concern for you

[hybrid cedar]

This very much works! Thank you so much 🙂

[solar hemlock]

I'm building multiple meshes from scratch, but I am over 64k vertices. What's the proper way to split this mesh to render all possible vertices?

[flat bane]

i cant use paint texture on terrain but the others things work fine

[rose sentinel]

why my scene is like this ?

[winter minnow]

Incompatible shaders

[rose sentinel]

how can i fix that

[winter minnow]

Find shaders that are compatible with your project's render pipeline, or change your project's render pipeline so that they're compatible with the shaders
If those are Unity's default shaders, you may be able to convert them to your render pipeline using the render pipeline material converter

[rose sentinel]

Yes is the default shader

[winter minnow]

@rose sentinel When starting a project you should have knowledge of what render pipeline you choose, which is the rendering backend of the project
And you should consider that choice when importing assets, as they can be made for different render pipelines

[rose sentinel]

okay i have found and where i can add a start point ?

[winter minnow]

What does "add a start point" mean?

[rose sentinel]

a place where the player will start

[rose sentinel]

you know wath i wan to mean ?

[winter minnow]

Not a clue

[rose sentinel]

But how can I do so that when I press start I appear on the map and I can move around?

[winter minnow]

That 100% depends on your project
Unity is not a game making tool, it's an engine and generally expects you to build that kind of functionality yourself
From the earlier screenshot I see a glimpse of some tutorial project you may be using
I expect it has its own method for doing what you ask

[lucid cove]

well you'll need a controller to move around.

[silent flame]

hey guys, does anyone know how i would be able to have these trees in my terrain affect the navmesh?

i'm not sure what i'm missing here, i've tried adding a box collider to the trees and resizing but nothing happens

looks like i may be screwed? https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/navmeshsurface-trees-placed-on-terrain-are-not-taken-into-account-when-baking-navmesh

[winter minnow]

One of the comments links a tool for adding colliders to terrain trees just for this purpose

[winter minnow]

If you want to showcase your progress, make a thread in #1180170818983051344
These channels are meant for problem solving and discussion

[hasty tapir]

hey, I got 2 problems, the first one is trees will not render in editor if they are far away, second problem is that tree density is super high when I try to place them, even at 10 trees

please ping me if you reply

[winter minnow]

Terrain trees have a built-in LOD, which is supposed to replace them with 2D billboards over a certain distance
The billboards can't be generated unless they're using a correct shader though

For the density issue you've probably checked the placement density, but you can also check that the tree meshes aren't much bigger than the Terrain would expect

[silent flame]

i saw this, but im new to unity and using this for a separate game that doesn't allow c#, only lua. do scripts like this have to run every time, or is this something you could just run once and then remove it?

ive seen lots of scripts regarding this but wasn't sure if i could actually use it

[winter minnow]

Looks like it runs once, simply converting tree colliders into navmesh obstacles