⛰️┃terrain-3d

[terse lark]

from what im observing im worried it's not accessible which would be insane?

[winter minnow]

"Accessible" in what way or context?

[terse lark]

Via code or even generally where it’s stored period

[solar swan]

Terrain.terrainData.terrainLayers[].specular
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/TerrainLayer-specular.html

[terse lark]

thats not it

i thought so too tho ty

should have mentioned

[winter minnow]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/changing-terrain-tint-color-via-script/241529
Perhaps?

[terse lark]

ah you legend, no clue why that didnt pop up on google

also no clue why thats named so weird

[solar swan]

maybe because its a gradient remap and not a straight tint

[terse lark]

fair but it is presented as a color based tint in inspector

[brittle jewel]

I want to ask something what is the best terrain tool out there?

unity's internal terrain tools doesnt look that good

[thin hearth]

I haven't seen an alternative. Everything else is built on top of it, even though it's terrible

The biggest issue is that the things you'd need to implement your own TerrainCollider (heightfield + trees) are not exposed. So you'd be stuck with poorly performing mesh colliders.

[solar swan]

It’s good enough for the things you’re supposed to make in unity and extensions for the most pressing issues exist (not free ones), particularly instanced indirect rendering and better shaders.

A better terrain system would be appreciated but that comes with additional expectations for scalability of other systems that would need to be improved alongside (asset streaming), which makes the engine overall more complex. This is a likely reason why little has happened regarding core terrain implementation over the years.

It’s also far from cost effective for a 3rd party to build a better terrain system. It is variously estimated to be a 1-3 year engineering effort, depending on scope and team capabilities.

Partial solutions for ‚better‘ terrain can be found on the asset store.

[thin hearth]

Band aids

[winter minnow]

This doesn't seem related to terrain

You can post showcases to #🏆┃daily-win or #1180170818983051344 but they have to be related to Unity in some tangible way

[golden copper]

Is there a hiring chat here?

[winter minnow]

No, but
!collab

(if the bot is asleep, here's what should appear #💻┃unity-talk message )

[golden copper]

Do you know of any servers that have hiring?

[winter minnow]

Not off the top of my head

[thin hearth]

!collab

[light bloom]

:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

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Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
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[thin hearth]

@golden copper

That, and the Remote Game Jobs Discord.

[rocky folio]

Hi all. My terrain is invisible. I can do set height and stuff, but only the outline of the terrain shape is showing

I seem to remember i gotta do something to trigger refresh of the terrain's splat textures, but i can't find that now

Also i'm using microsplat

But trying on a standard terrain also does the same

[winter minnow]

Do any meshes appear as expected?
To me this mostly looks like the shade of grey you get when the project is set to use the 2D renderer

[rocky folio]

Well yes this project used to be 2D, and i'm testing terrain 3D
I changed the URP data and URP renderer asset to use the normal one, assigned in project settings etc

But it seems to still be like this

[winter minnow]

Sure you changed it under Graphics as well as under Quality?

[rocky folio]

That's it

Thanks

[grim valve]

arent stuff like this supposed to be provided by unity itself lol? its a problem every terrain user is gonna come across smh and they want me to pay for an addon

[winter minnow]

That's a complex question
It's hard to make a feature that fits every game's needs
Triplanar texturing is pretty expensive to render, and most games through history have fared well without it
And in turn what about games that need overhangs, caves or infinite terrain?
Unity is "just" a game engine, some think they're not "supposed" to provide any level or content creation tools as extras, instead dedicate their resources to improving the engine
Providing many features has the downside of quickly becoming resource costly, and while doing so they'll compete with and discourage asset store publishers who effectively bring money to them while improving the engine's potential
And it's not unreasonable or at least not unusual to have paid plugins, even "essential" ones to an extent
Very few production software don't work in a similar way, and when studios start a project they expect to spend resources either developing the tools and features they need or buying them if someone's built them already

[terse lark]

all of that but also yes unity's terrain stuff is shit

[winter minnow]

By many metrics yes, but it's always relative

The animation editor is also "shit" if you try to animate entire human characters interacting in complex ways
But there's no expectation that it's up to that kind of task in place of proper tools

Still, fair to expect that Terrain would be production ready as there are no hints that it's not
But it does have its uses and it'd be a loss if they deprecated and removed it with no replacement (as almost happened to Realtime GI), to avoid any kind of confusion and disappointment

[coral cliff]

when you guys have a level design ready to be sculpted / put into a 3d design, would you recommend sculpting it using unitys inengine tools? or using a 3d modeling tool like blender and exporting it as a heightmap to unity? "
If you do recommend using the ingame tools, how do you sculpt / design using a pen in unity? i have a laptop with a flat drawing screen built in, and it feels really "clunky" to try to draw on the terrain, while being able to move around and switch the strength / opacity / size of the brush
PS: Wish there was a way to use unity terrain brush tools / interface with good pressure point sensitivety and mouse emulation. the tools seem really inituative for making a heightmap.

[solar swan]

i generally make specific stamps with gaea and world-creator, and assemble them in unity via MicroVerse. The built-in terrain tools are destructive edits, and i do not use those. Same thing for sculpting in any other app. That workflow just doesn't work for me when it comes to terrain. I dislike the early commit to a specific shape with no way to move stuff around later.
https://quadspinner.com/
https://www.world-creator.com/

[coral cliff]

what engine do you recommend for people unable to buy world creator or gaea?

[solar swan]

make games that don't need realistic terrain or buy/find a premade stamp pack

[coral cliff]

i do have microverse,and i love the way it works, just painful to create my own terrain stamps using 2d and wilbur etc

[solar swan]

you will not be happy making a game that needs detailed terrain if you rely on free stuff.

you can get the free version of gaea, that still gives you 1k resolution exports

maybe that is sufficient

if you cleverly layer the stamps, you can get far with 1k, you just cant really make an entire map in the generator, which is often counterproductive anyway.

fwiw, MicroVerse doesn't really work with large-ish terrains anyways. anything above 4x4 @2k is practically impossible.

[coral cliff]

understood, i thought i could figure out how to sculpt using blender or another pipeline. i will try gaea and see if i can adapt the 1k exports. yeah that does make sense, ill see how far i can take things, and if it doesnt pan out ill try to get some coding commisions done to buy one of the terrain design ones.
yeah i dont need huge terrain my map is only 2k by 2k

wouldnt have time to fill it with pois if it was any bigger

[solar swan]

if you need a gameplay oriented map, not realistic vistas, and if you add fog, you can probably get far with 1k stamps

also download the free stamps on the asset store to see what a 4k stamp gives you

[coral cliff]

i have gaia and microverse stamps already downloaded along with the free ones,but it was just a bit hard to figure out how to combine my level design with just those stamps

[solar swan]

btw, for reference, i'd study Horizon Zero Dawn. that game has a tiny map (for an open world game) that feels very large with many level design tricks to create "pockets" and winding paths that don't need huge draw distance or much foliage.

[coral cliff]

ill defo take notes, the whole kinda goal with the level design for my game is to make it have a bunch of mountains seperating different areas of exploration of the game to make it feel bigger t hen it is.

[solar swan]

yes, definitely look at HZD for that, their map is all about that trickery

caveat: they also use a lot of meshes/rocks to cover up the terrain.

another good case study for map design is Skyrim

But skyrim is relatively large (3x as big as HZD).

[coral cliff]

thank you for the advice, wish terrain design fell a bit more in line with sculpting, but i can defo make the meshes to cover the terrain. yeah skyrim is defo one i looked at already, just need to figure out a bit of implementation of how to structure the pipeline. thank you as always anikki,

[solar swan]

i would say that skyrim is too big for standard unity terrain. their map vocabulary does not translate to your small map.

[thin hearth]

Skyrim is just the right size for standard Unity terrain

Any bigger and you run into memory issues or floating point precision

Skyrim is a 37km² square including the sea. If I measure my map the same way it's 35km². So these are very similar sizes with similar levels of detail.

What saves you here is that Bethesda's maps are measured like they're square but the playable area is oblong.
With Unity terrain's tiling capabilities you can fill up the rest with low-resolution background terrain. All in all this (27km² playable area, 100km² background) costs less than a gigabyte of memory, which makes it doable without streaming.

They're also just small enough to avoid floating point precision problems. You'll always be less than 10km from the center of the map.

So in short: you can make Skyrim in Unity, but not even a little bit bigger.

[worn cedar]

can you guys help me im new to unity why's this upside down

[winter minnow]

Green Y there is the up axis so it's your scene view that's upside down

[solar swan]

this entirely depends on the terrain resolution, you cannot make skyrim at modern < 0.5 m units per heightmap pixel. you're also limited in the number of splats you can use at that size. Editor workflow is atrocious at this scale too. So while it may run in a build and be technically prossible, there is just no way to make a real project of that size in unity with any kind of acceptable workflow using only standard tools.

[thin hearth]

Yes, heightmap resolution sucks but the editor workflow isn't that bad.
Obviously with a lot of custom tooling.

I use 16 layers per tile. 1024x1024 tile resolution, 2048x2048 splatmap, and no basemap.

[solar swan]

you cannot take your own project as a model for all others.

idk how you get that to work at a skyrim scale, i suppose it makes some compromise that others might not find acceptable for their project.

[terse lark]

it's a comparison ?

for reference..

[thin hearth]

It's only 2km² shy of Skyrim's map size so I think it's a fair comparison

[solar swan]

well, can you maybe share what other assumptions and metrics you use, what you optimize for and what tools you use, so we can have an even footed discussion

otherwise we're talking based on divergent assumptions and goals

my intent was was to communicat what you can expect from baseline unity terrain usage without diving deep into its constraints to allow a newcomer to gauge whther their ambitions are realistic.

[thin hearth]

I can hardly condense two years of engine / tooling development in a single message.

The key for the terrain system is the resolutions.

And number of layers I guess

[solar swan]

well, then if one needs 2 years of tool development to do what you do, that doesn't really compare to what i was trying to communicate

[thin hearth]

Fair enough

But terrain system does handle it - although I'd call it a brute force solution with relatively high hardware requirements.

[solar swan]

i think "it can handle it in theory with years of work" is just not helpful

[terse lark]

I mean anything of this scale is gonna need years of work either directly or in previous experience

[solar swan]

anyone who can get it to work at that level, isn't asking questions in this discord about it

[coral cliff]

I'm not entirely new to the performance side of unity and the limitations of the heightmap based system, i was mostly stuck on the level designer workflow,, as theres not many resources. i do know that its never going to be realistic to have a giant map as a solo / small team, as the resources to fill the heightmap with interesting pois is way more then just making the terrain. my questions was way more about how to convert 2d /conncepts to a 3d version.

my background is in scripting, and have had experience with reading / optimising heightmaps and terrain. just i have zero experience when it comes to creating terrain, so needed a bit of help to figure out how the workflow for level designers works

[solar swan]

i understand, i think the conversation got a bit off-topic in your absence 😉 in any case, depending on what your goals are there are some things you can do to turn a 2D concept or rough shape into a terrain that preserves the level-design aspects. But there is no simple blanket thing, just individual trickery you can apply.

taking the the HZD style map, you can block out your map with basic shapes (cubes/extrusions), define just the terraces, paths and pockets you want for gameplay, then layer displacement effects stamps on top like you would with a texture. The idea here is to not sculpt the terrain with stamps but to turn a low-detail modelled shape into something that resembles are plausible hillside, coastline or some craggy cliffs. All before adding decorative meshes on top. However this doesn't 'just work'. There is a compromise to be made, and i believe the details are something everyone has to find/figure for themselves.

This is also the main issue i see with terrain, if your goal is to approach realism, there are many frustrations, but you can aim for making something that looks and feels good (without aiming to be realistic) and that can live with the technical constraints of videogame terrain.

[thin hearth]

It's very personal. I settled on having a lot of height differences.
Everything is hand sculped with only the first three brushes in the list. I usually start by raising, then flattening, raising again to get some variation. Then a smoothing step. Next I paint a cliff texture using a slope filter, then place cliff meshes over that.

Grass placement is generated based on the splat map using a custom tool. Roads use splines. I use a modified version of prefab painter+ to place rocks and stuff.

Trees and plants are a mix of procgen (again, custom system) and hand placement using the terrain tools.

But this is just one workflow and it yields very specific results.

[woeful drift]

wow why my game looks bad

My trees are disappearing in the distance along with the grass

[rain lake]

hi, is there a way to export terrain pieces as an FBX to blender?

[woeful drift]

not to fbx but to obj

also needed that

https://github.com/burakdaskin/Terrain-To-Object-Exporter

look there

[rain lake]

thanks!

[thin hearth]

I’m watching on a phone screen so apologies if I’m seeing it incorrectly, but to me it looks like the trees are rendering alright. It’s just the shadows which fade out over distance, which is normal.

This doesn’t happen in my game but I modified the render pipeline to make that happen. I can point out several AAA games that also have this issue though. So it’s not a huge deal if you tune it right.

[woeful drift]

thanks

[woeful drift]

Maybe you know what can help my game look better?

[open tulip]

i think i have a script for that, my friend gave me it awhile ago but idk if it works

[woeful drift]

I mean visually

[open tulip]

use this and get this package com.unity.formats.fbx

might work but im not sure

[rain lake]

I am an ultra n00b beginner but I will try that ty

you are very kind to dig that up for me thanks

[open tulip]

no problem, just put the script in a folder called “Editor” and go to tools on the top and it shoulf be somewhere there, if you need any more help i can always try

[thin hearth]

I think the terrain itself is pretty great. Looks like real mountains. I'd remove the shadows from the grass entirely, so you don't have so much noisy high-contrast stuff. You can see if I put it in black and white, everything completely blends into the grass.

Then you'll just want some variation. More different stuff. Different ground textures with their own foliage.

Oh and fog, for depth.

[woeful drift]

Thanks

I added fog and just set it on 0.0025

Because it doent looks so good as I wanted

I searched the internet about the sky and the sun, but I still don't understand how it's implemented in Unity.

[thin hearth]

It depends on your render pipeline.

[woeful drift]

I using URP in my project, you meant that?

[thin hearth]

Yup. Might want to find some tutorials for that.

[neon umbra]

When trying to create procedurally generated terrain in top down 2d, is it better to usr game objects or tilemaps?

Im using tilemaps rn and it seems easier. Problem is sprite sorting doesnt work well when it comes to different parts of the terrain such as cliffs and whatnot

Kinda lost on how to implement terrain generation from a top down 2d perspecti e

[thin hearth]

#🖼️┃2d-tools would be the better channel for this

[thick timber]

I hoped to release this on the Asset Store, but I decided to open source it instead because I've been too busy at work and... executive dysfunction? Spline-based terrain editing tool:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1ow4wkj/open_sourcing_my_spline_terrain_editor/

I hope someone likes it 🙂

[hexed ice]

I've got a weird issue that I'm hoping someone can suggest a fix for.

In my map I have a bunch of assets and a single piece of unity terrain. If I just leave the scene static the memory usage of the editor goes up and up and up until eventually it runs out of memory and crashes.
If I disable the Tree & Detail objects, by simply unticking the "Draw" option in the Terrain Settings, it stops going up. So I have narrowed it down that far.

I know if I remove a bunch of the trees etc.. it becomes less noticeable but it still creeps up.

Is it just the case where I am overdoing it and Unity just can't take it? Or is there something else perhaps going on?

[woeful drift]

should I put a lod group on trees or is it not necessary?

how much lods is the best for trees

[thin hearth]

Yes

More LODs is more pop-in. I prefer having few, with relatively low quality for LOD0

Beats pop-in, in my opinion.

[thin hearth]

Sounds like an engine bug.

I think I have something like 70,000 trees and that works fine.

[hexed ice]

Which version of Unity are you using?

[thin hearth]

6.0

[hexed ice]

Ok thanks, I might do some tests with a blank project. it could be related to the assets themselves.

[thin hearth]

If you can reproduce in a blank project you can make a bug report

[woeful drift]

why am I driving through my trees on terrain even though I added mesh collider to the prefab

[thin hearth]

Well that would be why

Trees only support capsule collider

[woeful drift]

thx i will try soon

[woeful drift]

like this?

[woeful drift]

maybe i can use smth else?

[thin hearth]

Yep

[woeful drift]

can u look how to better

it just doesn't fit in any way, my car can touch both foliage and trunk.

[winter minnow]

Your only practical option is to conform the collider to the trunk
Would you want the foliage to be a totally solid barrier for the car anyway?

[woeful drift]

ok thx

[winter minnow]

If you want something different or more complex, you have to make that kind of system to replace Terrain trees/colliders or to work on top of them

[woeful drift]

mb u know how to fix this

that my trees look normal

they become white too close

[burnt shore]

does anyone know how to prevent trees from clipping when mass placing trees on the terrain

[whole spruce]

hey smart unity peoples, ive been looking into using gaea 2.0 for terrains mainly just to mess around since im still a complete novice and ive got one made but when i use terrain toolbox unity says imported heightmap resolution is not power of two. i honestly dont understand what it means as this is my first time doing anything with terrain toolbox so a bit of a teaching moment would be awesome if anyone has some time!

[thin hearth]

Powers of two, so 2^2 = 4, 2^3 = 8, 2^10 = 1024, etc.

Texture resolution should always be in a power of two to facilitate mipmapping because it can be cleanly halved all the way down to a single pixel.

[whole spruce]

gotcha gotcha, so gaea 2 exports out in 1k free but when i export its 1025x1025 does that mess with anything or am im wrong?

[thin hearth]

For some reason Unity terrain takes 1025, 2049, etc

Never knew why

[whole spruce]

i see

i wonder why its so pissed at me, ill have to remake the terrain and try again and see if maybe its just being silly. thanks for the info tho

[pearl ember]

Can someone build me some terrain for free for my game

[woeful drift]

How to increase the rendering of trees on the terrain

Because my trees lose their shadows and colors with distance.

And that is too close for me

[thin hearth]

Write your own code for it. The mass place function is very primitive.

[thin hearth]

That'll be due to your shadow distance.

[woeful drift]

Where can I edit that

[thin hearth]

I don't know URP

[winter minnow]

URP has shadow settings in "URP assets", each matching a quality level from Project Settings > Quality

[woeful drift]

im there

and what to do?

[winter minnow]

Read URP docs about the URP asset

[woeful drift]

Project Settings > Quality but im there maybe u can tell me pls

[woeful drift]

pls can you say me I didnt found it

[woeful drift]

how to place rocks to terrain as a tree or as a grass

what collider should i select

[thin hearth]

I would advice against that.

Trees only support capsule collider, which is not a shape that conforms well to rocks. Grass doesn't support colliders at all.

[woeful drift]

thanks, I added a lod group to the object, but now I can ride through rocks. I tried mesh collider, but it didn't help.

[woeful drift]

can you tell me which collider is better to use?

[thin hearth]

I use mesh colliders for large rocks

They don't really conform to primitive shapes well

[woeful drift]

why when I use it i cant touch the rock

mb due to lod group

[thin hearth]

Does it have a mesh?

Works fine here

[woeful drift]

oh forgot about that thanks

[woeful drift]

please can you say how to increase the visibility distance of the shadows. how you did it in your project

[thin hearth]

I use HDRP

[woeful drift]

I create urp asset

oh

[thin hearth]

I also modified the render pipeline to achieve my shadow distance

[woeful drift]

Is it hard?

[thin hearth]

If you don't know shader code then yes, that would be pretty hard. Just configuring it however, is not.

This is what the manual says:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/urp/universalrp-asset.html#shadows

[woeful drift]

urp asset is also connected here?

I just trying to edit and nothing hapend

[wind bison]

am using same terrain paint layer on two different terrains but there is difference in color I think its not because of baking all terrains except this one anyone knows about this ?

[shadow pebble]

Hi guys, I created a rough path for my world, and it goes uphill. I made that path using just 3d objects to vision it. is there a tool that will raise terrain but stop at objects? does such a thing exist?

[rain lake]

hi, just wondering if anyone can help here, regarding material blending. I know how to set up terrain layers to paint between 2 textures, but I don't want to use the default URP lit shader as it gives faceting on the terrain model and I want to ideally be able to use toon shaders to give it a specific look. Is it possible to use custom materials in conjunction with blending terrain layers? Would appreciate any input if possible

[pastel scaffold]

I'm trying to reduce memory usage and I am using microsplat to extract and compress splatmaps, however my terrains are generating a lot of render textures of splatmaps and other things, does anyone know how I can deal with these?

[thin hearth]

I found a few ways to reduce splatmap memory overhead.

If you select a splatmap, then put the inspector in debug mode, you get some options. The streaming ones DO NOT work. But you can add them to mipmap limit groups, which should allow you to control their memory usage in VRAM.

I haven’t fully tested this but I imagine making several groups and limiting resolution of those groups would allow you to create a rudimentary mip streaming solution.

You can also uncheck read/write enabled, which means they are no longer duplicated in CPU memory. This means you can no longer read the splatmaps at runtime, but terrain keeps working.

[smoky glacier]

My game takes place on basically a massive abyss/cave so the only light generally comes from the crack above. I was wondering what the best approach to achieving this would be?

Should I make a large low poly cave model with a gap in the top? Or is there a better way

[fast quartz]

hi all, i think it's a dumb question but my render on editor is broken? (ignore the ground, it's gray temporary)

it's only appears when i go nearly

[summer gust]

noice ! are those the cliffs from synty ?

[thin hearth]

I think so, yes

Using triplanar mapping so it doesn’t look so repetitive (mesh detail and texture detail are different frequencies)

[torn palm]

guys i set a brush a png photo but i cant brush

[shadow pebble]

hi wolfos hope you are well bud. i have a question about this after reading this channel, for a small outside area, about 200 x 50 x 200 what would you recommend as the resolutions of the tiles and maps? i've read 16 layers is best? thanks

[drifting crown]

@shadow pebble Please don't ping people not in conversation with you into your questions. If someone finds they can answer your question, they would answer it.

[thin hearth]

Depends on target hardware, but if it's a single terrain you can go much higher resolution than with a big world. Simply going 4096 on everything would work just fine on PC, you wouldn't run into memory pressure and it'd look better.

[wary stump]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to learn the terrian system. The first thing I want to do is make a small river. I am not able to because lower terrain (shift left click) doesn't work. I understand this is because my height is set to 0 and I can't go below that. I've read about 30 posts dealing with this issue but all the answers just say "set the height to X" or refer to fields that I can't find anywhere. Can someone please tell me how to do this in Unity 6?

[shadow lark]

Hii

[coral cliff]

(Unity 6.0, but will work for all versions of unity

[wary stump]

@coral cliff : thank you so much!

[tepid mantle]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/microsplat-hdrp-for-unity-6-3-344008
What exactly is changing in 6.3 that's requiring a full rewrite of their shaders?

If terrain shaders turn out to be better than I expect then I may just stick with them

[tepid mantle]

Honestly they are looking pretty good, I just wonder about the performance

https://i.imgur.com/WOhmBpR.jpeg
Sexy

They should really use some higher quality assets for the foliage though in these examples. All this work but using the most flat looking grass decals

[fair lily]

do people typically build the game environment in unity or something like blender?

[gusty jungle]

How many official unity tutorials are there?👀

[thin hearth]

Unity. Blender has no prefab support so it’s ass for scene editing.

[buoyant urchin]

I am looking for lightweight URP terrain shader, is there any?

[thin hearth]

I wouldn't worry so much about the cost of the terrain's shader. The cost is mostly elsewhere

They all do pretty much the same work anyway

[buoyant urchin]

How to turn tree collider off programatically?

I will write a tool to turn it off

[finite juniper]

I've very new to terrain, can't see any explanation with this but... how are you able to make it so that the terrains texture is not like a "copy/paste" image, like this grass

like as in u can see the lines

unless that's just a bad grass texture, dont know if I am using it right

[winter minnow]

It doesn't look great
Textures not made to not visibly repeat or which have seams are not well suited for terrain texturing

But even with a great texture you usually want more than one texture to mix in with terrain painting for variance

And cover them with stuff like grass, trees and rocks

Even in games such as Skyrim their grass textures don't repeat all that well, but you never see it because the terrains are filled with variance

[finite juniper]

Aaah riight, is that why I prob noticed 3 types of grass with same color, maybe I was meant to paint 1 and brush 2 others over it?

or am I misunderstanding

[winter minnow]

Maybe not directly "over" each other but in the same area
Could be different grass of same color, similar grass of a different color, patches of no grass at all, grass mixed with detritus, whatnot

In nature you rarely find any perfectly uniform stretches of grass
Or rather never

[finite juniper]

I'm not too fussed about it, it's just for a Game Jam event, it just looks so damn ugly haha

[winter minnow]

Even golf courses which are rather unnaturally smooth do have all kinds of variance

There are image editing methods that can fairly easily improve a texture's seamlessness
But that might not even be necessary if you brush in multiple texture layers

[finite juniper]

literally everything looks like they have the same textures, I think they guy who made it just made a texture and then Green = Grass, Gray = rock etc

I'll see if I can prob find a better one tomorrow, it's getting late

[finite juniper]

Thanks though for the tip 🙂

[deep phoenix]

hey i started doing terains and i cant find the add terain layers feature in it

[tardy lark]

under Paint Terrain then Edit Terrain layers

[tardy lark]

you can also manually create them with the context menu, right click then Create > Terrain Layer

[deep phoenix]

what that like the context menu

[tardy lark]

click this small drop down and change it to Paint Texture

[deep phoenix]

why cnat i see the things near me

[tardy lark]

focus an object in the scene, double click on it in the hierarchy

should be a small object in your scene a default cube would do it too

[thin hearth]

Looks like you don’t have the terrain tools package installed

[deep phoenix]

that i do not

[thin hearth]

Might be the reason you can’t find it

[deep phoenix]

how to lower not raise the terrain

[thin hearth]

Height doesn’t go below 0, so if you want to lower it you have to raise it first

[thin hearth]

This

[deep phoenix]

how to make the height bigger then

[thin hearth]

Firstkindgamer explained that in the message I replied to

#⛰️┃terrain-3d message

[deep phoenix]

thx

[tepid mantle]

Let's say I want to create a bunch of islands, say like 500x500 each. I'd imagine I can stitch them together easily at runtime by adding them as neighbors, but the problem is I don't really want to lerp the edges/faces together. I rather have each of these islands keep the verts as is and let some buffer between the islands to bridge those verts smoothly and this buffer would be something like 500x100 as I don't need something too large. Not really seeing a way to have different size neighbors on the editor, so I was wondering if that sounds possible via scripting

https://discussions.unity.com/t/assembling-terrains-without-seams/761455/6
Guess this kinda goes over it

[glacial pond]

Does anyone know what might be causing this weird black patterns on my terrains on iOS?
I am on Unity 6...12f
Not appearing on Android and didn't change anything from before, just updated Unity.
It seems due to the URP TerrainLit material somehow

[glacial pond]

It seems related to normals somehow, whenever a normal power is set to 1 it will screw up like that. Only on iOS...

[finite juniper]

Hey, I'm trying to fix the stretch of my Terrain, not sure where I should be able to fix that, is there any way to make it more natural... tools or any sorts?

[thin hearth]

Triplanar mapping would help (some stuff on the asset store for this), but what I do is smooth the edges a bit and put cliffs over the really steep bits.

[finite juniper]

you mean slowly up/down brush on the terrain with the brush? yeah I've also thought about triplanar I just haven't found the right tutorial online yet

Also when we're on this terrain topic, is there a way to scale down the terrain without ruining my current terrain that I've already made, I noticed it before it was too late.

Plan was to have this (red line) the "play area" rest is just pointless and just does unnecessary rendering

[thin hearth]

It's not really supported out of the box, but you can export the heightmap and crop it. Then reapply to a new terrain that's the size you want.

You don't necessarily have to care about this. Those few extra triangles being sent to the rasterizer won't matter. But there's a bit of memory and storage waste, and GPU compression doesn't get rid of that as well as a format like PNG would.

[finite juniper]

Yeah it's good to know or prepare for next time, this is just a game jam project so as long as it runs fine it shouldn't be a problem cuz I'm only using kinda lowres/poly assets

[thin hearth]

I have a very big low-res background terrain for stuff that isn't in the gameplay area

Just make sure to exclude that from ray tracing if you're using that. Took me a while to figure that out! 😄

[finite juniper]

That's a very good point, Noted 😂

[thin hearth]

It's not about performance, it just breaks the ray tracer if you have overlapping terrains 🙂

[finite juniper]

aaah I see

[leaden coral]

does anyone know when i paint my terrain it all turns out to be blocky ?

nevermind i fixed it, increased the control texture resolution

[granite trout]

hey guys... how can i optimize terrain? I have trees not a lot only few but i got only 30 fps .. lods included, gpu instant too - HDRP

[thin hearth]

How did you do GPU instancing?

[spiral garden]

Start with profiling your game(preferably a build).

[thin hearth]

I’d start by just looking at draw calls in the editor here

Something tells me the instancing isn’t working

[onyx ocean]

Tile up your terrains in chunks preferably smaller ones like 512^2 and use lowpoly dummies for further terrains

[amber stirrup]

What's the status of Speedtree?

[uncut dagger]

Hi guys, I recently started learning unity 6.3.
I'm currently at the stage of creating a basic terrain. I have seen information about graph shaders, but I have not been able to understand them properly and find more detailed information. Can someone tell me how to get rid of the terrain texture tiling? I know very little about this, but I would like to learn how to add it to my terrain so that the tiling of all the textures that I use to paint the landscape is not visible. Can someone give information regarding this particular case, for a 3d game on the HDRP version of Unity. Please, I need information from people who understand this, as I have already looked at the official documentation on this, as well as the unity forum and other YouTube videos, but no one has been able to properly explain how to do this and use it, as the texture brushes that I paint are still hidden, and I am very I am surprised that there is no solution to this problem right out of the box of the engine, I would appreciate your help.

[winter minnow]

Texture repetition tends to be computationally expensive to solve with shaders, and typically not a problem with good enough textures when used smartly

With sufficient resolution and seams and repetitive patterns hidden, you might not need any more steps than that
But also to combat this you can use detail mapping to create two "levels" of texture variance at different scales per layer, and to alternate between layers to create even more variance

[uncut dagger]

The thing is, I want to use 2-4k textures.
And I want to make them repeat themselves often enough, so that it doesn't get messy. But there is a problem with tiling in the form of a chessboard. I've seen solutions from people regarding this, when they somehow change and scale the texture that they use for painting during application to hide this tiling, and thus, due to accidental transformation and rotation, this tiling is not visible. Of the solutions I've seen, it's a graph shader, some kind of microsplat system, and something else, but I didn't understand anything from all of this, nor did I find any normal tutorials that could help me solve the issue, but unfortunately all the information that is available is only indirectly related.,

[winter minnow]

Furthermore even if the textures weren't all that seamless, in most practical scenarios that occur in real life as well as most games the details and terrain features placed on top will conceal a lot of it anyway

[uncut dagger]

I've seen some solutions, but they're paid. I would like to make my decision, and for free, by understanding this, as I am an indie developer, and in any case, as a loner, I will have to figure it all out, I really want to find information where the person who presents it understands what he is talking about and how it works, but Surprisingly, all the information that I had received before did not correspond to this(

[winter minnow]

2-4k sounds plenty in the ballpark of enough to me
What do you mean by "problem with tiling in the form of a chessboard"
Do you have a picture of the problem

[uncut dagger]

I'm talking about things like this, that is, when you see an obvious repetition of the texture, it absolutely does not suit me and I want to get rid of it anyway, here's an example of how it happens in unity in the first photo, and in the second photo, what I want to get is an example from the arma reforger game. Yes, they have a different engine and so on, but from experience I understand that in any case, the tiling solution is the same everywhere, that is, it is the transformation of the texture layer by some method, I have heard of some kind of stochastic method, most likely it is used there, but how to implement it in unity for my project I I don't understand how this solution works in other engines by default in the engine itself.

I also heard information about the method of superimposing some kind of global noise map that will interfere with texture tiling, but as I said earlier, I couldn't really figure it out, because unfortunately people present information more often specifically for their solution, and not what I'm looking for. In addition, I have repeatedly come across attempts to solve this problem using various crutches that people made 5 or more years ago, but I think there are some modern solutions for this, especially considering version 6.3 of unity.

It would be cool to find a guide where a guy says, "Hey dude, now I'm going to tell you as a beginner what you should do at the beginning of creating your project, how to get rid of tiling, and so on, where you need to click alternately to achieve a solution to your problem with tiling," and he will really show it and explain that why and how, and not just do something incomprehensible on the screen without explanation, while not understanding what is happening.

[winter minnow]

In the first image the grass texture has a lot of recognizable patterns which could be removed and it'd improve
In the second picture I cannot see any repetition at all
They could be using a procedural stochastic texturing method and to your eye it still appears to have the same issue

Because the terrain is so unnaturally featureless the real issue is not the texture repetition

[uncut dagger]

No. The second screenshot just solved the problem with tiling, the first screenshot just has the same problem that exists with painting the unity landscape by default, I want to get the result as in the second photo.

https://github.com/mgolucino/Unity3D-MacroMicroVariation?tab=readme-ov-file
I've seen this page with a possible solution, but to be honest, I still haven't figured out how to apply it to the standard terrain texture layers in unity. How to use it and so on, but I couldn't find a guide that explains it in an accessible and understandable language, by a person who really understands it.

[solar swan]

you will probably want to use stochastic texture sampling, an example of which is described here https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/stochastic-texturing-3c2e58d76a14

you can get the sampler node for this on the asset store or DIY it https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/stochastic-height-sampling-node-for-amplify-shader-editor-143715

[winter minnow]

I see
My point is that avoiding repetition is barely ever worth the cost and effort, which is why you find so few resources for it
Another reason is that Unity's Terrain has barely received any updates in many years, custom solutions tend to be used instead
And technically there already is an official solution, more or less:
https://github.com/UnityLabs/procedural-stochastic-texturing

So each solution/tutorial ends up looking kinda unique to each project and rarely gives you the exact information you need
And if it seems incomprehensible, or if you want to do custom Terrain shaders otherwise, you should first learn Shader Graph and and shaders on their own

[uncut dagger]

Oh, I've seen this guide, but I still haven't figured out how to use it. As I understand it, the standard terrane unity uses texture layers to paint the terrane with the brushes that are available in the default tools. But I did not understand how to use the materials on the terrane to paint the areas of the terrane I need with this texture layer, so that the texture does not repeat as it says in the manual.

[solar swan]

you would have to be careful using this technique though, because it needs 3-6x texture samples over the basic tiled method

[winter minnow]

...Then after learning Shader Graph study the various anti-repetition techniques available to you
Then learn how custom Terrain Shader Graphs are made to work with Terrain features, which is new in Unity 6.3.

Three different steps you can't really tackle all at once

[solar swan]

if this isn't a learning project, you can also take the shortcut and buy a terrain shader

then modify that to suit your needs

[uncut dagger]

That is, guys, I need to study the graph unity 6.3 shader, and use it to try to get rid of texture tiling, do I understand everything correctly? I also immediately ask a question about how to use this shader graph on the terrain itself, so that you can use texture sets and draw them with your custom brush patterns. This is how I want to manually color the terrain, giving more detailed drawings, while not having a tile on the texture layer that I paint.

[winter minnow]

That seems correct
I can't advise how to make Terrain Shader Graphs as I haven't used that 6.3. feature yet

[uncut dagger]

Guys, if you have any guides that I will study myself, or additionally with a neural network, and they will really help solve my question, or move towards solving it, I will be grateful to receive links and recommendations from you to certain information that is referenced, thank you in advance

https://github.com/JuniorDjjr/Unity-Procedural-Stochastic-Texture-Terrain-Shader?tab=readme-ov-file
I also saw this information page, I don't know if it corresponds to what I want.

[uncut dagger]

https://github.com/MichaelEGA/Procedural-Stochastic-Terrain-Shader

[twin salmon]

i dont know what im doing

[ocean trout]

is 452k triangles and 230k vertices too much if I want to make my game available for mobile? Btw whats your feeling on my 3D terrain for a 2D game? hehe.

All of the terrain are procedurally generated using compute shader.

The hardest part was for the 3D terrain surface to match my 2D terrain exactly, pixel by pixel, especially that the world is a planet, so it had to match pixel by pixel even at the other side of the world.

[tepid mantle]

Well, if you're rendering the full complexity of it at full draw distance then perhaps you need to generate some LODs along with it

[thin hearth]

No, it’s not too much geometry. But you should always be testing performance on target hardware, rather than inferring from barely relevant details like polycount.

[brave hornet]

is there any kind of mirror tool for the terrain painting? I've been trying to make one myself but its being a huge pain. I just want to be able to make symmetric maps

[tepid mantle]

You can always export the splatmap and bring it to another painting software

and heightmap for that matter

if you use blender you can build the mesh inside of it and texture paint it (the splat) there too

[lunar leaf]

Is there someon e her ethat can help me with with doing a terrain?

[pastel inlet]

Hey guys, I'm new to Unity, and the first thing I'm really interested in: is there some free automatic open world streaming solution in unity (like world partition in UE5)?

[thin hearth]

I’d recommend building this yourself so you can customize it and integrate it with your tooling.

[steady pasture]

is it possible to lower all terrain at once?
keep the height differences but if it's all at 600 then have it the same but at 200. like clamping

[steady pasture]

great thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1fwjdw2/how_do_i_handle_open_world_streaming/

[thin hearth]

Could write some code to do this, yeah

Would take a while to process several million pixels on the CPU but it'll work

[steady pasture]

what???

I mean just jump up selection with brush or the entire thing, that shouldn't be a heavy operation

fixed, simply changing the terrain height did it

[thin hearth]

Yeah brushes use the GPU

Just not really worth doing for a one-time operation

[steady pasture]

ah cool

[rocky folio]

Hi. My terrain is lightmap baked
But is there a way to disable this lightmap without uhh deleting the lightmaps ?

[thin hearth]

Could probably get there by modifying the render pipeline but I don't think it's built in.

[rocky folio]

I'm on URP

Well i've disabled the global lightmap and stuff in the lighting settings. That should be... it for the lightmaps. And i see shadows are actually working on the terrain
But the terrain is still bright, even with no lights being on

I've disabled fog and all that

My other, non terrain objects are properly pitch black with no lights on. But the terrain (using URP Terrain Lit shader) is.. i guess lit/shaded, but just won't go full black

[proud forum]

Hello

Does Unity terrain not support height mesh? I am using Navmesh surface, and heightmesh is not generated for terrain, but it is for other objects.

[shell mortar]

Hi, I'm a total beginner to terrain and world building in unity, how would I go about making a very simple forest map?

I've setup lighting and fog, and wanted to continue on my prototype project by getting the map in

[opaque rover]

Well, what do you mean?

I assume you'll want trees in the forest, yes?

That's a good start

If you're asking how to use the terrain system, there's a section to add tree meshes to so you can paint with them and one for grass meshes too

You'll want a variety of them, presumably

Also, paint some height variations cause nothing is ever completely flat

I don't know what else to tell you without you being more specific

[shell mortar]

Hey

Yeah so basically I'm asking how to make the simplest forest map with possible a path of sort

As you mentioned, the terrain system let's you "paint" trees and such, but how do I start with that?

[twilit torrent]

Does anyone know why the shadows appear extremely dark on the grass and/or how I can fix this? The terrain and the grass are all done using the built in unity terrain tools

[opaque rover]

Sorry, you didn't tag me so I didn't see it

There is a menu called something like "paint trees" and one called "paint details" or something

Speaking from memory

One of the little box icons

I'm sure there are yt tutorials for the terrain system

Everything is there, sculpting terrain, painting and blending textures, this and that

[opaque rover]

Can't see shit in this screenshot but did you mark the normal map as a normal map if you're using one?

Other than that, what is casting that large shadow?

[shell mortar]

Yeah I tried it out, but when I put the new system on the plane I have, it creates a whole new terrain above all pink

[opaque rover]

Don't add it to a plane, you need to add a terrain instead

[shell mortar]

That makes a lot more sense lmao

Is there a way to combine multiple made terrains?

[opaque rover]

yes

you can add multiple terrains, just make sure you line them up

or make one bigger one, whatever works

[shell mortar]

Also another thing, I've imported some trees that has HDRP, but they still turn out like this.
I've used the HDRP wizard to convert materials into HDRP but still doesn't seem to work

[shell mortar]

There's a setting in the terrain options to add terrains next to it, but won't let me merge them

[opaque rover]

does that asset say it supports hdrp? Does it come with hdrp materials?

[opaque rover]

afaik you can't "merge" them, just line them up manually if that's what you need

[shell mortar]

As you can see in the folder list it says "HDRP" so I assume it does?

[opaque rover]

and you used those in your scene? I don't know then, I am troubleshooting blindly. Does it say it supports your version of unity?

Maybe it's using a shader that got broken in a newer version, couldn't tell you like this

[shell mortar]

Yeah I'm sorry for giving you a broad question like this

It's likely that it doesn't support unity 6

I'll try and find a different HDRP one

[shell mortar]

Could I ask what "bend factor" means?

[opaque rover]

that's for bending with the wind if the tree supports that

[shell mortar]

It now gives me this, tho I think I have adressed the issues, I added a mesh renderer to the tree and it already has LOD's

[opaque rover]

have you added it to the prefab tho or just the one in the scene? Cause it spawns them from prefabs

[shell mortar]

To the prefab

[opaque rover]

it's hard to say, terrain system can be picky as to what needs to be put where

maybe the mesh renderer needs to be on the one below

not sure

[shell mortar]

I actually added it to both in case

[shell mortar]

Even the stamp terrain one isn't working either

Oh nvm that was a different issue

[shell mortar]

@opaque rover So I got it slightly working
Basically I moved Spruce_1 to be the top and only parent. And now trees spawn, but it's VERY laggy

[stark relic]

so im modding a game and it doesnt support the basic Lit shader is there any way i can get a different shader for it?

[terse lark]

we can't help with modding here, sorry

[stark relic]

got it thank you

[supple quail]

anyone know why the billboarding version of the trees gets outlayered by the water? they are using the terrain systems lod range but im unsure of the effect

i figured out that changing the waters shader to alpha test in its render queue fixed it, but im not sure that is the best approach

[lone jay]

hey all, is it still not possible to use terrain trees with a nav mesh?

[thin hearth]

Yeah, adjusting the sorting order is the best bet. HDRP has a few more options.

[thin hearth]

Nothing changed. You can work around it by automatically spawning capsule colliders for each tree before baking, then deleting afterwards.
Example: https://github.com/Wolfos/Adventure-RPG/blob/master/Utility/TerrainTrees.cs

[thin hearth]

Should probably wrap this in a try / finally block if you use it.

[lone jay]

kind of unintuitive but at least i was able to make a script for it, ty

[thin hearth]

It's been confirmed as a bug (or at least missing feature), but terrain has never been a priority for Unity.

[steady pasture]

has anyone here used digger?
I am looking for a way to scatter objects in caves.
Polybrush and terrain scattering tools don't work with areas modified using digger, and the digger developer doesn't help on Discord anymore...

I would also appreciate a stable alternative to Digger if anyone here recommends 🙏🏻

in general just looking for any tool that can scatter objects based on normals

[limber cove]

Hello there. Does anyone know how to make a 3D Object change color in play mode? I've been trying to make the leaves of this tree model change colors, like the seasons, but so far, I haven't had much luck.

I tried looking up the right tutorials, but none of them seemed to work.

https://youtu.be/pY4MnY6pwMw?si=QNCSblzPGO_jVgny

https://youtu.be/s8mAXdrwGFk?si=BTWglDJbsakEDvkI

This one is the latest tutorial...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbU2tInJTOQ

[thin hearth]

I don't use Digger, but if it emits PhysX colliders it should work with Prefab Brush+

And if not, you could always modify the code.

[steady pasture]

nice i'm considering

[steady pasture]

character controller walks on it,
terrains use mesh collider, right? I think it just leaves that as the default.
would it be stupid to add a mesh collider to the terrain?

[thin hearth]

Terrains don't use mesh collider, no

[thin hearth]

A custom shader with globals is probably the way to go here. Or look into The Visual Engine.

[thin hearth]

They use the TerrainCollider component, which I assume maps to PhysX's heightfield collider.

[steady pasture]

awesome, I'll look into it.

Thanks

[limber cove]

I'm sorry for the late reply. I'm still new to Unity and I still have a lot to learn about it.

I'll look into the custom shader designs with the "globals" and the Visual Engine.

I'll follow-up with some progress and results...if that's okay.

[brazen delta]

I'm having two issues with Unity Terrain

1. It tells me to use the Nature/Soft Occlusion shader but this doesn't exist in the project

2. Trees are absurdly unoptimized

I added ike 20 trees and the editor has slowed to a crawl, I'm basically soft locked in lag

This is on Unity 6.3 using Universal Render Pipeline

[winter minnow]

These seem like they could be related issues
What shader are your trees using exactly, and what amount of detail do they have?

[thin hearth]

If it's suggesting the Soft Occlusion shader that means it's using the legacy tree path, which means the tree prefab lacks a LOD group.

[brazen delta]

URP Lit, and they are normal full detail PBR trees

Does Unity support auto generation of LOD or do I have to make this myself and assign in the LOD groups?

[thin hearth]

Unity 6.3 added auto LOD generation. Though these algorithms tend not to work very well for foliage.

Don’t necessarily need LOD though. Just a LOD group component

[desert rock]

Why doesn't the color tint option pop up in my terrain layer?

[spiral garden]

The shader probably doesn't use it.

[desert rock]

The docs said both URP and HDRP support this feature

Also I am using a custom shader

I had to create a custom editor to override unity's to expose that field

[iron shoal]

is there a way to know if your occlusion static is working?

weird quesition but static batching and occlusion stuff are new to me

[desert rock]

Open the occlusion culling window visualisation, if you see stuff culling then, occlusion culling is working

[iron shoal]

thanks that makes things very clear

[broken flume]

I do not understand Unity. I accidentally used Copy Paste for my Terrains and now they are all linked to each other which I don't want.

And when I tried to change the Terrain Data... it just changes it back at runtime complaining about colliders or something

So like I just can't edit my "chapter1" Terrain without also having the same edits appear in "chapter2"

And like on runtime it just reverts back

So like I can't edit or do anything

How do you change the TerrainData in the "Terrain" Component ??
I do not see a drop down place for this .

[thin hearth]

I think it’s in the rightmost tab

Or maybe if you set your inspector to debug mode

Or you could just delete it and create a new one.

[broken flume]

I guess I will just delete and create new ones

[mystic terrace]

A unity terrain questions why arent the colors matching on the terrain and the palete? on terrain its from left to right in the pallete.

[rough magnet]

because it's blending

if you paint with full weight it should match

[mystic terrace]

what you mean with full weigth? where is that setting? all i know about is opacity and that on full on those

[rough magnet]

yeah i mean, one sec

yeah make opacity 100

[mystic terrace]

it doesnt match at all

the top layers works just fine

for example this one matches

[thin hearth]

Is this Unity 6.2?

They were messing with the terrain shader

[winter minnow]

To my eye all of them are relatively brighter, probably due to lighting
But regardless can you show the Ground002 layer properties

[mystic terrace]

6000.3.2f1

[mystic terrace]

im bad at this is this the properties?

[winter minnow]

Yes
I expect the mask map might be wrong, or be just having an unexpected effect

(Assuming you haven't touched Channel Remapping)

[mystic terrace]

i never touch theese 😄

[winter minnow]

If you remove the mask map from the texture slot, you can compare the difference

[mystic terrace]

the only thing i noticed is that i can change the color from white to brownish and it looks better, but thats just weird.

[winter minnow]

It shows smoothness comes from diffuse alpha channel, I would try getting it to a fixed value of 0 or 0.5 to compare that

My only guess at this point is that the smoothness may be too high so the layers could be reflecting the sky and so appearing brighter

But that failing I think it would be most likely due to lighting and post processing

Bright light and default tonemapping will make all materials appear brighter and more washed out

Even if the difference is pretty drastic here

[mystic terrace]

thanks but now you are talking about stuff i have no idea on what it is 😄

ill just change the color to what i want 😄

[winter minnow]

One thing that is easy to try is changing the smoothness source
What options are under that dropdown?

[winter minnow]

Try Constant with 0 value

[mystic terrace]

didnt to much

[winter minnow]

Well, that checks off the specularity theory

[mystic terrace]

there is no diffrence between 0 and 1 😛

[winter minnow]

I'd wager the same color difference appears on non-Terrain meshes with materials using the same textures

[mystic terrace]

AO changed something

[winter minnow]

It's also possible the default Tint value is not pure white but some level of grey

AO value 1 lets all ambient light in, value 0 removes it
It's supposed to be 1

[mystic terrace]

looks better with 0 hahah 😄

[winter minnow]

You would rather modify your scene's ambient lighting than occlude it per-material

Which supports the theory that your scene's lighting may be too bright

[mystic terrace]

this is mumbo jambo for me 😄

[winter minnow]

You probably don't want it to be

[mystic terrace]

probably not but atm it is 😄

[winter minnow]

(Just checked the default Tint seems to be white)

[winter minnow]

Since you're using lighting and post processing you will need to learn about them
In a nutshell there are light components like Directional Lights, which you typically should have one of
Additionally the scene has ambient lighting and environmental reflections which can be configured in Lighting window, which are the illumination an object receives outside of any light components
To take effect they must be baked using the Generate button, but Realtime Global Illumination or Baked Global Illumination need not be enabled for that, and should not be unless you want to simulate global illumination which is a bigger process

[mystic terrace]

hehe its not me using 😄 i bought a frame work 😄 so the lightning was allrdy set up

[winter minnow]

Post processing is not crucial to understand outright, as long as you note that by default URP equips its scenes with Neutral Tonemapping that can make lighting look pale and washed out without any extra color correction

[winter minnow]

What framework?

[mystic terrace]

Spark

maybe framework is the wrong name 😛 not suire

[winter minnow]

That doesn't yield any search results

[mystic terrace]

i basicly bought a Addon that helps me with the game im doing 😄 and it had lightning and alot of other stuff allrdy set up 😄

[winter minnow]

Anyway, whether the framework has set up the lighting for you or you're on defaults, it looks like you're now trying to "fix" it as a problem

[mystic terrace]

because in my eyes it is a problem. if something doesnt add up its a problem

[winter minnow]

Therefore you need understanding of lighting features involved to correctly tweak the relevant systems

As it seems the pre-set lighting is not to your liking

[mystic terrace]

its not about liking or not. its that some textures doesnt give the result they say they will give. it has nothing to do with my likning or not the rest of the textures works as shown

[winter minnow]

I'm not sure they do
The grass in scene is also significantly brighter and paler than seen in the layer selection

Anyway you have two paths for troubleshooting it

1. Investigate the textures and materials: make some non-Terrain mesh objects with non-Terrain materials using the same textures, see if it also shows up the same way. If not, you know it's related to Terrain. If so, try different textures, different properties like normals, smoothness etc. Try to pinpoint the issue to either specific textures or material properties.
2. Investigate lighting and PP: Create the Terrain with its textures in a new scene from Unity's templates rather than the Framework. That could rule out the scene's lighting settings causing the difference. Learn basic operation of light components and scene lighting and tweak those directly to understand how they affect material appearance.
3. Not a troubleshooting path at all: tweak whatever variables without precisely testing for anything or learning the systems involved, until it looks kinda right without understanding why. Watch more issues resurface that will seem impossible to solve because you don't remember your tweaks or know what their precise effect was

[mystic terrace]

thanks 😄 alot for all the help this is gonna take me a while to do since im such a noob 😄

[mystic terrace]

oki i tried number two since i dont really understand 1 and 3 :D_ but luckely it looks alot better with default urp settings. So i quess than there is something in the lightning in the framework. This is the time i wish i could have both projects open at the same time on my computer 😄

[mystic terrace]

@winter minnow Thanks it was the skybox in the scene that was not on default 😄 now it works like a charm again

[raw field]

Hey any idea where can find a good tutorials/guides on how to approach envio for 3D top view game (ARPG-like) ?

I struggle with even the basic stuff, the texture filtering makes everything look pixelated and quite damn ass (turning off mipmaps causes flickering)

[winter minnow]

You usually want to keep texture filtering on (bilinear or trilinear) and not to disable mip map generation

[raw field]

Yes I know that but that doesn't really answer the question of how to make it look good 😄

[winter minnow]

No, but that seems unrelated

[gleaming belfry]

I’m going to go insane. This is the second time my map got corrupted or deleted somehow..

I don’t know what happened. Can I send a file to someone and they can look at it? I’m like a few days in and my terrain turned black or something

I have to go to bed it’s 3am if someone can help. I’ll try sending the file over in the morning

[winter minnow]

"Turned black or something" doesn't sound like a corruption but more so a rendering issue
Corruptions would typically make the terrain unreadable and cause it disappear entirely
You should demonstrate the issue in some clear way (after you've rested)
And use version control software so all changes to your project can be backed up and reverted

[gleaming belfry]

Would that also affect the dimensions? I don’t see my mountains anymore. It’s all part of the same terrain. There’s like…. Little hills but it isn’t the same and again the color is gone

[manic wave]

Raising or lowering terrain isn't as detailed as I'd like it to be

How can I make it add more detail in between those vertices it seems to interpolate between?

[winter minnow]

If your brush is too strong, it may skip height levels
But ultimately your terrain's height resolution is relative to its maximum height
If the maximum height is very tall, the height resolution you have will be stretched over a taller distance

[gleaming belfry]

@winter minnow can I send you the file or share the project with you? Maybe it’s a simple fix.

Or I can send a picture

[winter minnow]

Pictures or a video

[gleaming belfry]

Okay

[winter minnow]

And ideally of what it looked like before

[manic wave]

Hmm I think it got solved by setting these down from 1000 to 250

thx tho

[winter minnow]

Terrain data has become unassigned, if not lost

Not expected to happen on its own
Most likely from not saving a scene after assigning a terrain data
But that's not a common occurrence
Even more reason to use version control software
And investigate your system if it keeps happening

[gleaming belfry]

thanks. i was trying to use chat gpt to help troube shoot it

[winter minnow]

I don't really recommend that

[gleaming belfry]

i think i'm cooked. i'm over it. thanks for you help

much love!

[gleaming belfry]

whyat does this mean? i'm trying to scale water out and it doesnt load

[rose sentinel]

Hey. So I am completely new to most of the unity itself and started making my own game and I am really confused about the new terrain texture system how does it work and how can I achieve decent looking terrain texture

[gleaming belfry]

I’m pretty sure you got to download them from the unity store. Or that’s what I do at least. Once you download them they’ll be in your assets panel.

I’m new too but this is what I’ve learned so far

[still marten]

Hey, so a quick question, I have a 16x16 grass texture that I paint on my terrain, yet instead of clean edges like the texture I get a rounded texture as grass, any idea why and how to fix?

[thin hearth]

Probably not a solution, but this shouldn’t be a sprite

Under advanced, try disabling mipmapping

[still marten]

You mean trying different texture type? Mipmap is disabled, still rounded

[tardy lark]

16x16 sounds really small, maybe use 512x512

[thin hearth]

Guessing they’re trying for pixel art

Which should work, given the settings

[still marten]

Yeah, it's meant to be a a mix of 2D and 3D

And since I suck at art, and I make all assets myself I opted for low pixelart

But I'll try using bigger resolution, maybe that lowers the smooth effect

Nope, still same with 32x32

[thin hearth]

Maybe try playing with the alpha cutoff on the material?

[still marten]

I'll take a look, but it's not a material I think

Currently it's only a sprite

[frozen condor]

hi

how texture terrain multiple

[mossy temple]

You should probably be more explicit, You explained what you wanted much better in the #💻┃unity-talk channel. You can do that here as well.

[proper scroll]

yo any of you guys know how to make this map better or how to make it easier

[drifting crown]

This is not related to terrain. Perhaps you are looking for #🛠️┃probuilder

[proper scroll]

Why whenever I put texture into my map why does it go on the roof wall and floors? I only want it on the floors. How can I get that to work?

I made the map in blinder

[winter minnow]

Use material slots
Still not the right channel for it
#🔀┃art-asset-workflow is for assets like externally created level geometry

[rose sentinel]

how do you paint terrian in the new version of unity 6

all the vidoes just point to things like terrian painter

[winter minnow]

The same way you always did
Terrain component > Paint Terrain button > Paint Texture from dropdown
Create Terrain Layers to have something to paint

[rose sentinel]

where can i get good textures for it then

[winter minnow]

Make them, or search for them online
There are countless sites for textures and pbr materials
Unity's Asset Store has them too

[foggy thicket]

had the same issue, this is due to terrain grass shader using it's own sampler state instead of taking texture's one, so only solution I found is making the texture stupidly bigger (had 64 by 64, scaled up to 512 by 512) to reduce filtering radius. This will not affect performance on most platforms, since grass renders fully on GPU and it's using the same texture over and over again without taking up more VRAM for each grass piece. You could also change the shader, but it will be a lot harder solution, but it will give you true Point filtering, not smaller rounding. Hope this helps!

[thin hearth]

But you can supply any shader for grass

Even the default /lit shaders work

[foggy thicket]

wait, really? Last time I've checked, you can't assign a shader to the terrain grass...

[thin hearth]

You need to assign a mesh. It’ll use the mesh’s default assigned material

[foggy thicket]

Oh, you are talking about terrain detail

[winter minnow]

Editing the shader should be relatively easy as well

[foggy thicket]

I think he is using terrain plane grass in billboard mode, not terrain detail

[thin hearth]

Well don’t do that then

[foggy thicket]

yeah, it would be a one line of code, but knowing unity, they probably did some shenanigans and divided this shader into a billion files like usual

[winter minnow]

There is also a "plane grass"?

[thin hearth]

Legacy feature in the old render pipeline

[foggy thicket]

yeah, you just assign the texture, tweak some parameters (like colors, wind reaction, etc.) and can place plane grass (random rotation and billboard modes)

[foggy thicket]

urp? I beilieve they are still work on it

[foggy thicket]

Seems like another solution, but since details use the material you give it you will have to replicate all the wind, billboard and other features in your shader (if you want them, ofc)

[winter minnow]

Ah right the detail type
Don't know where from it uses the shader, but I'd rather edit the one for mesh grass
Assuming it has all the features needed

[still marten]

But it's easy to setup 😭

[still marten]

Thanks mate, I'll try tomorrow, hope it works 🤞

Btw, anyone know why my trees are 90° rotated when placing with tree paint tool? Has been a issue since unity 2020

I'm unity 2025... (not recommended, crash basically every 10min)

[rose sentinel]

what do you think i am only tring to fix tilling problem does it look good

[compact hornet]

Textures kinda weird but good terrain

Me likey

[rose sentinel]

main problem is the tilling . but yes finding good texture is rather problmetic

want to see full terrian

[compact hornet]

You know you could like split a texture (I don’t remember) to like many parts or smth so it looks more detailed or smth idk

[burnt summit]

Guys i can't remove my editor can someone help me

[rose sentinel]

what like i can divide the texture or something

[compact hornet]

Yea

[rose sentinel]

thanks i will try that

[compact hornet]

I’m Sorry that idon’t remember where it is (probably in texture settings for the texture)

[rose sentinel]

no worries i will figure it out

[rose sentinel]

i figured it out what do you guys think

[compact hornet]

Much better

[rose sentinel]

adding forest and stuff by the end of tommor

what terrian resolurion is better

according to storage and computer power

[foggy thicket]

This is not really an issue of unity (though option to control detail rotation would be really handy), this is due to how your modeling software exports models. If you place your tree manually, it will probably stay upright, but if you look at it's transform, you will see that it is in fact rotated about 90 degrees to be like that, and terrain places details with 0 0 0 rotation. To fix this you should tweak export parameters in your modeling software or export in different format

[rose sentinel]

yo guys any tips on what i can do better here

[winter minnow]

For performance and file size, less resolution is better

[winter minnow]

This is not a feedback channel, for that you have to make a thread in #1180170818983051344
But truthfully nobody can tell you how can you make something better because "better" can mean anything subjectively

[rose sentinel]

thanks man

[still marten]

Tested and works, kiss on your 4 cheeks pal, my grass is now crisp and about 400x400 pixels bigger then needed, but crisp sharp, also thx to Murado

[compact hornet]

What’s your dev log thread I gotta see ts

[rose sentinel]

Haven't made it yet I am gonna add it by tomorrow

[oak egret]

does anyone have any general good resources (Tutorials and the like) on using something like SYNTY assets to create nice environments? Whenever I try modular sets I never get a good looking scene, pretty new to it still but was just wondering if there are any vidoes i'm not finding showing peoples workflows or setting up nice scenes?

[solar swan]

you could look at their screenshots, try to imitate them, then learn from that experience and adapt to your own scenes.

you can then google for generic level design books/talks that teach you how to recognize what someone else is doing in a level, this then allows you to "learn from the masters" simply by looking at their work.

one popular source is this ebook (yes thats the official source): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fAlf2MwEFTwePwzbP3try1H0aYa9kpVBHPBkyIq-caY/edit?tab=t.0

this is also a nice primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKeUZVikPV8

[oak egret]

Awesome thank you those are both very helpful and something I hve not come across before!

[fast lantern]

What Are Some Really Good Free/Cheap Terrain Plugins That Help With Texturing And Anything Else Like Mountain Creations And Anything Else.

[spiral garden]

There Are Many On The Asset Store You Should Look It Up Yourself.

[fast lantern]

100% 👍 I was asking for the sake of those who want to shed any insight or knowledge they have to anyone/everyone

[vestal stag]

Any biomes rules pros that can help me? I’m using Gaia for my terrain generation 10x10 km, great. But now towards populating the terrain, I’m looking at the biomes spawner. I populated theirs with prefabs I have but I feel like it’s either over spawning it or lightly and I’m sure it’s because of rules etc so was hoping to get some guidance how to make the terrain feel lively

[novel dust]

I have 2 directional lights, one is on a custom layer but still seems to show up on the main camera as well.

wait, is it inverted?

no, i click icon generator and it still shows the light

oh i found it, light culling mask

[open coral]

What resolutions do you guys typically use for terrain? Is there some rule of thumb or something?

For example for a 500x500 map what would you pick in terms of heightmap, control and base texture res?

[thin hearth]

Just one terrain? You can afford big textures then

Except for basemap, set that to lowest and put the basemap distance on maximum so it’s not used.

Basemap is a feature that made sense in 2007, when the terrain system was introduced. Back when pixel shaders were still new and expensive.

Now it just costs extra memory.

[open coral]

yea just one. Interesting about basemap, noted, thanks!

[lilac path]

How can I sync changes across all terrains, if I add details brush for example grass blade to one terrain I expect to have it on all terrains, same for terrain settings which I made editor script for but for detail palette im having duplication glitches which cba anymore to figure out theres no way ppl work with terrain as is so what yall use

[winter minnow]

Do your different Terrains use the same terrain data?

Or do you mean you want only the added brushes and detail setups to sync

If so I don't know what the solution might be, besides maybe to set those up once first and then make the individual Terrains by duplicating the first one
Assuming your situation is that you want separate Terrains in different scenes/places which have different shape but share everything else

In serious use people usually abandon the default Terrain system quickly
But out of curiosity what kind of editor script are you using and what kind of duplication issues do you encounter?

[thin hearth]

Since arrays are a reference, copying the reference will mess things up

Solution is:

[Button]
public void CopyDetails()
{
  GetComponent<Terrain>().terrainData.detailPrototypes = copyDetailsFrom.terrainData.detailPrototypes.ToArray();
}

The LINQ .ToArray() method copies it to a new array.

[sick plover]

hello i was wondering if anyone could help me

im trying to add trees to my terrain using a model i made but it says "The tree can't be instanced because the prefab contains no valid mesh renderer"

im not sure how to add one to a prefab

[sudden moss]

hey everyone im having a problem with my unity terrain, im using UNITY 6 6.000.0.51f1.

after i added the terrain mesh from 3D object > terrain and went to the paint terrain tab, none of my brushes appear on my viewport and i can only select the obejct or move the viewport

i tried creating new brushes, pressing T. and my brush still wont appear

[thin hearth]

Do you have the terrain tools package installed?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.terrain-tools@5.3/manual/index.html

[sudden moss]

Yes

Although when i downloaded it i didnt notice any changes on the amount of brush existed

I'll try to restart unity

[sudden moss]

still didnt work

this is how it looks,

i can only select or move the viewport

[thin hearth]

No idea. You have the source code for the terrain package, so you can debug it if you’re comfortable doing that.

[sudden moss]

i see any idea on where to start spesifically?

i do have several of these brushes being marked Read Only for some reason

[thin hearth]

Yeah, that’s normal.

Do you maybe have a second inspector window open somewhere?

[sudden moss]

No, im certain. I reset the layout to default and its still the same

Any ideas?

[formal torrent]

Is there a way to reset the terrain position to 0,0,0? The inspector shows 0,0,0 but the terrain is not at the pivot point of the parent gameobject.

[blazing axle]

made a tutorial on texture packing in substance painter to use the new terrain shaders in unity 6.3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqqRnrHeLk

[formal torrent]

Does anyone know where I can get assistance for my question? Or is terrain-3d the wrong place to ask?

[blazing axle]

looks like your terrain is a child of another object, so it's showing local center position of the parent and its children and not world pivot position

unparent the terrain and see if that changes the value/pivot

the location of the child objects being away from the center of the terrain will also mess with the pivot

[blazing axle]

you can turn on pivot at the top left corner

[blazing axle]

these brush size/opacity are reeeally small. are they too small to make a noticable change?

[sudden moss]

Ive tried increasing that to no avail, it turns out there was a bug on the editor and one had to do branch switching in github desktop (im running a unity-github desktop setup)

[formal torrent]

Yes thank you! I troubleshooted with the global/local option but it slipped my mind to try changing the pivot/center options. This solved my issue.

[rocky folio]

Hi. This is a shader question but it's about terrain
What is TERRAIN_SPLAT_BASEPASS ? I was writing some shader and was relying on this being defined. But at some point, this gets undefined
Could it be caused by some things in the terrain being disabled?

[thin hearth]

It's defined by the base pass of the terrain splat shader. Just an identifier for when that pass is running.

[rocky folio]

If there's base pass then there are other passes?

I was implementing a uhh custom lighting that should happen on the terrain, regardless of which splat texture is showing on it. Is base pass related to which splat index being shown? Or it's something else?

I just remembered this error not showing, and what i was changing works. But now there's this error and i don't remember what i did

Oo nvm found the problem

[thin hearth]

Yes, the pipeline has many passes and a few of them like depth prepass and shadow will also render the terrain.

[limpid pewter]

Made this for my own game and it does it's thing 🙂

Basically reads your terrain texture layers and (using data from the terrain settings) auto-paints grass wherever you painted textures. Obviously, only works paired with the built in Terrain Tool.

Beats manually painting grass.

Read more and download at:
https://www.little-frontier.com/blog/devlog-04/

[thin hearth]

I did something like this as well.

Here’s some tips:

• put the data in a ScriptableObject so you can reuse it on multiple terrains
• you can multi-thread the detail array generation, very important if you have a lot of detail layers

[sick plover]

can you make a 3d asset separate not made in unity a terrain you can paint trees on?

[solar swan]

https://unity.com/features/polybrush allows you to paint prefabs on any mesh. If you need lots of trees on arbitrary surfaces, you can look at 3rd party gpu instancers and DIY a painting or mask generator solution that suits your project.

[maiden oracle]

im new to unity and wondering if anyone could give advice to me with something that prolly seems pretty simple, how do i make clean terrain? what i mean is, not hilly, but like clean, cylindrical cliffs without it being super bumpy but perfectly flat?

I figured it out actually, despite a bit of a struggle. for anyone that doesnt know (probably not many of you but in case theres other beginners who see this) it's just terrain -> paint terrain -> set height, scroll to set height controls then just paint where you want the cliff

[shut zenith]

Working on an external project, and as soon as I turn on Draw Instanced the whole terrain becomes a vertex explosion. Any ideas what this could be and how to fix it?

Using Unity 6000.2.8 with URP

[winter minnow]

I believe that editor is the equivalent of an old beta version of an even currently buggy release
I'd try reproducing the same issue in a new project in 6.0. or 6.3.

[shut zenith]

Yeah I'll give 6.3 a shot later
It's a quite complex project (also just saw it uses non-terrain shaders for the terrain, which could definitely be the issue...)

[winter minnow]

That sounds like a likely culprit, and easier to test
6.3. has shader graph support for custom terrain shaders that aren't supposed to break with terrain features

[shut zenith]

Yepp, also told that to the client. Thanks!

[rose sentinel]

Is there a way to make a generat a maze than I can add to it or

[drifting crown]

There's no modding discussions on the server.

[hollow pumice]

hi guys, have a very generic question
how can i make track for bike racing type game. if possible please share some resource, i couldn't find proper resources

[winter minnow]

"Track" is rather vague and varies a lot by game
But I recommend you search for tools and resources made about car roads and foot paths, those are way more common

And can be easily converted for bike needs

[magic pewter]

how do i change the distance that the trees will spawn in around me or just preferably turn of the trees despawning. idk how to do lod groups.

[jagged karma]

Hello! I'm having an issue with Unity 6.2.6f2 terrain (default URP terrain shader) where terrain chunks are visibly culling far before the clip plane, leading to some really wacky artifacts like seeing 'floating objects' relatively nearby. (all in pictures + videos)

Does anyone have any idea how to prevent this? I've played with some of the terrain distance settings, but they're mostly for detail distance, not base terrain chunk distance.

This is only an issue in the Game View, the Scene View looks fine.
(I'm playing the game in 16:9, just cropping out the bottom of the screen for NDA purposes, apologies for the weirdly wide looking screenshots)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1463339349742588184/1463339352003182736/afc265b4ef7d3f90b3c02061242dd909.mp4?ex=69717879&is=697026f9&hm=4982f85d4c61cea3c1bbd527166ea23e3e6eff72e4d5e3b3a005d30e9d2f326b&

[magic pewter]

how do i stop my trees from dissapearing when there still in view?

[blazing axle]

might be one of a couple of things, but first try checking terrain settings for fade length. if that number is too high foliage can disappear. other than that you can check LOD settings on the foliage, or the camera near clip distance. decreasing the near clip plane would prevent things from disappearing when the camera is too close.

[blazing axle]

this looks like a far clip camera issue, but you said it's clipping far before the plane? do you have LODs set up on the terrain?

[jagged karma]

Yes, so this floating object is on the hill that isn’t being rendered

I just created a default terrain and painted some height on it, didn’t do any setup beyond that - I did try pushing up the detail distances to see what’d happen, but since this isn’t an issue rendering details, just the base terrain, it didn’t have any effect :/

You can see it tiling in in the video

I really appreciate the thoughts!

Is there anything that’d be helpful for me to check?

[thin hearth]

Reducing the "pixel error" will probably do what you want

[odd tendon]

Hi, I'm new to Unity and I'm trying to make my own game but I'm having problems with assets and textures. Can anyone help me solve my problem?

[half cloud]

What is this orange border around the Terrain object? It seems to clip/hide objects in the scene and Terrain itself if I zoom in.

It seems like glitch/bug. Because it's happening randomly.

If I select some other object and press F, then select Terrain again, there's no such issue.

If I select Terrain, press F, then zoom in, then there's this issue. Weird.

[sick fulcrum]

Yes i can help you with that

[winter minnow]

Orange border is the same outline you get when selecting any object in scene window, it's not related to the clipping that you see
The clipping is the viewport's clipping planes
When rendering 3D each viewport/camera must have a specified minimum and maximum distance for drawing the geometry
By default scene window uses "dynamic clipping" which adjusts the near and far clipping planes to fit the size of the object you focus on with F or middle mouse click (or double click in hierachy), but the planes are not adjusted when zooming or moving the view outside of that
That's intended
You can specify the near and far clip planes manually but learning to use the dynamic clipping is probably more practical

Generally you can just middle click on whatever object you're working on, or press F either once or twice to determine the distance to the focused object, that also adjusts the scroll zoom level to better fit the scale

[half cloud]

Okay. But how do I work on Terrain correctly? I need it in focus as I want to work on it. I have to press F any other object in the scene only then Terrain gets focused without clipping. Then I have to select Terrain object.

It seems one extra step every time I want Terrain in focus.

I found a relevant comment on Reddit.

I find that when I have focused the scene camera on an object much larger than others, like a terrain model for example, Unity editor sets its camera's near and far planes appropriately to view that object. But then it's really not the appropriate near and far planes for doing detail work, like placing trees or stones. Simply double clicking a smaller object in the scene always works to reset those clipping planes, for me.

It seems like that there's only that workaround which I commented above. Other than manually adjusting clipping distances.

[half cloud]

How do I smooth these jagged corners? If I use smooth tool, it changes the original shape. I want them smoother rather than deform. I even tried low opacity but still it deforms it rather than removing those sharp edges/spikes.

Do I need to increase this Texture Resolution?

[half cloud]

I can't find a good tutorial on this topic.

Will appreciate if anyone could help find it.

[winter minnow]

You have multiple ways to swap focus: selecting and F, selecting and F twice, double click in hierarchy, middle click on an object in scene
Using these it becomes pretty convenient to focus on close objects when you work up close, and focus on large objects when you work on large scale, even if you need to rapidly swap between the two
Important to note how you're moving the viewport camera though
If you move with right click + wasd FPS style movement, the "focus point" is easy to lose track of as it moves attached to the camera
If you rather tend to move with orbit, pan and zoom, it's a bit more logical as you always orbit around the focus point and zoom closer to / further from it when you scroll (scrolling doesn't simply move the camera "forward")

If swapping focus a lot is not convenient enough, you can set the far plane manually sufficiently far and near plane sufficiently close, while keeping in mind that the further the two are from each other exponentially more rendering glitches start appear

[winter minnow]

Yes
Terrain's shape is derived from the height map, so it's limited entirely to what pixel data the texture can store given its resolution and bit depth across the size and maximum height of the terrain
The jaggedness you see is individual vertices being offset by individual pixels of the height map
Because the vertices or height map cannot have a variable resolution, and can only store height, the terrain is very inefficient at representing fine details and vertical features
Additional cliff meshes are recommended in those situations

[half cloud]

I'll try them

[half cloud]

So there are enough particles already, it's just that height map is not detailed enough to offset vertices?

Additional cliff meshes are recommended in those situations
Do you mean I need to create/import separate models for tiny details?

[winter minnow]

There's no particles
Height map's pixels map one-to-one to the vertices of the generated geometry
When you sculpt terrain it merely modifies the height map texture, like drawing on an image

[winter minnow]

Yes, that'd often be much more practical

[half cloud]

OK I get it.

Thanks

[half cloud]

That height map resolution option improved it a little. I changed it from 513 to 1025. Do I need to change any other options like Control Texture and Base Texture resolutions too? I'm not sure they are needed for my use case.

The other options below that don't seem to make any effect.

[winter minnow]

Control texture resolution is the resolution of painted terrain layers
Specifically the texture that determines where the layers will go, the layers themselves have their own textures/resolutions
So it determines how sharp transitions there can be between layers

Base texture is a single texture used for the whole terrain beyond a certain distance
Afaik it's generated from the painted layers, but it seems to be a legacy feature and I've never seen it in use

[half cloud]

Ah.

Thanks

[thin hearth]

I recommend minimizing the basemap resolution and setting the distance it activates at to he max

I guess when they introduced this feature in 2008, some GPU's were still slow enough at pixel shading that it made sense to optimize that.

Today you mostly want to optimize memory bandwidth instead

[half cloud]

Default distance says 1000. Is it in meters?

[thin hearth]

Yep

[half cloud]

I won't zoom out more than that for now.

[thin hearth]

Just push it up to 20k

[half cloud]

OK

[thin hearth]

It's fine, the feature is unnecessary

[half cloud]

Oh

[half cloud]

I want to flatten this particular height so it becomes at exact level like other surrounding flat terrain (basically want to remove that hill as I don't need it now). I can't find exact height value for this. Any way to do this?

There's flatten tile option, but that flattens everything.

[half cloud]

I found the way to find the height at a particular point. Shift + Click.

[half cloud]

Is there any "eraser" tool for texture layers? I want to remove some of the sand texture from some areas. Or the only way is to paint with the other terrain layer?

[fathom spoke]

Hi guys. Im trying to get some sort of grass for an enviroment im building. I'm not really sure how to implement something that looks good properly - any suggestions? Going for a stylized low poly art style - it is a first person game that takes place in a backyard pool area.

[fathom spoke]

Problem solved literally just + terrain mesh paint the grass with grass texture underneath

[fathom spoke]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1307949770857512970/1468777596325204049/2026-02-04_20-17-21.mp4?ex=6985413b&is=6983efbb&hm=6ecea4596598f64abd62f152ff498363f5f6b5a3c2e094930b8889654024b7f4&

Please give honest critique about the current enviroment please!
I'm not sure if this looks good to me and it really isn't or if it actually looks good.

let me know what you guys think please

the grass throws me off a bit (idk how) ad maybe the fog is too strong on the treeline?

[fathom spoke]

updated grass to be more grass like

[solar swan]

you may want to post in #1180170818983051344 if you want feedback like this, in general it would also help if you specify what goals you try to achieve so any feedback isn't random or based on someone assumptions.

[fathom spoke]

Perfect, thanks ill do that

[sinful dust]

Hey everyone, I'm stuck in a Terrain Data loop. I duplicated my Terrain Data asset (DesertTerrain -> GrassTerrain) to use in a new scene. I assigned GrassTerrain to the Terrain Collider, but the main Terrain component is still stuck on the old DesertTerrain data. Clicking 'Assign' just forces my Collider back to the old Desert data. How do I force the visual Terrain component to switch to the new asset without it reverting?

In short what I'm trying to achieve is duplicate Terrain A, which would result in having Terrain A and Terrain B, and only change Texture/Material on Terrain B. How do I divorce these terrains so I can edit them separately

I have tried using different Terrain Data.asset for each terrain, but it doesn't solve the problem

[thin hearth]

You screwed up. Set your inspector to debug mode to assign the right TerrainData

[sinful dust]

Will check, thanks

[sinful dust]

@thin hearth it helped, thanks again, didn't even know unity had debug mode until now

[tight tide]

How to fix this feature in POM so that it makes the other asset look like floating. Do I have to use PDO?

[thin hearth]

Can't

This is just how parallax mapping works.

[tight tide]

Yeah, I'm just wondering if anyone already found a way to cheat this

[sinful dust]

Maybe tweaking contrast between colors of objects could mask it a little as it should be less visible if they are closer in color palette, but that could take some time

[thin hearth]

Can you use tessellation + displacement?

[tight tide]

My target is between mobile and as much as possible low end PCs

also I'm using BRP

[thin hearth]

I'd probably not use parallax either then

It's pretty expensive

[tight tide]

I am controlling the use of it through masking by distance.

[thin hearth]

as much as possible low end PCs
Should pick a target spec though

[tight tide]

Yeah, I wanted to as well, but the previous lead dev just wanted to lower everything in the graphics as much as possible while still expecting high-quality output—like, wtf. He even chose the Built-in Render Pipeline because he believed it was lighter.

[thin hearth]

I do think it has less overhead, but it's also designed for older hardware

[tight tide]

Harder to control

[thin hearth]

Depending on what you do, even HDRP can be the fastest pipeline.

It's much better at crunching through draw calls because it uses newer GPU features

So "this pipeline performs better" is pretty situational, and making that choice means picking an actual hardware target.

And it's a necessary choice because "as much as possible" isn't a real thing, IMO. You do your best to cater to a specific audience. No game appeals to everyone.

[west marsh]

Hello guys, can you help me with a bug or what is it? I just created a terrain in an empty project for clarity, used a brush and after Ctrl Z brush won’t let me touch that area anymore, I don't understand what to do :/ It's like terrain remembers texture outlines and ctrl z removes only the visible part

[thin hearth]

Try installing the terrain tools package. Hopefully it'll be solved by then 🙂

[west marsh]

Tryed, It does't support anymore... I find a crutch, i can create 2 terrains and use Terrain data by first terrain in second terrain, and it work. But only until i compile the project, then problem is here again. So bugy bug literally on the start

[winter minnow]

@tight tide @thin hearth The technique to get around that limitation is called Pixel Depth Offset but Unity doesn't support it, and if it did it'd be no doubt way more costly than POM alone

Might even be a better alternative to use simple mesh geometry with LODs

Geometry is relatively cheap, and LOD blending can make it seamless
Only HDRP and modern URP support LOD blending for geometry out of the box though iirc

[thin hearth]

Oh, yeah, that’s not a small feature

[fathom spoke]

Why does it seem as though with the mesh painter for my grass on Unity's terrain system, the grass isn't affected by any lighting in the scene?

is there a fix to this

Like yes the grass is casting shadows but it isn't affected by the shadows of for example the fence / foliage around

[twilit torrent]

I have a tree prefab with LODs which I am painting a bunch of trees on my Unity terrain but I noticed that despite the tree being batching static, the draw calls still shoot up dramatically (~+1000 draw calls), does anyone have any advice on how to deal with this? Additionally, I also noticed that Unity doesn't auto generate billboards for really distant trees, does anyone know how I could achieve that and if it would improve performance & draw calls?

[thin hearth]

Yeah, Unity’s tree system doesn’t use instanced rendering.

I recommend grabbing this;
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/gpu-instancer-pro-290293

[twilit torrent]

Ah I see, thanks, do you happen to know if this asset usually goes on sale?

[thin hearth]

Checked my invoice- yep, got it at 50% discount

[twilit torrent]

ah okay then guess imma have to wait for it to go on sale, thanks!

[forest stratus]

working on my own little project for that, using BRG

[tacit seal]

opinions? the scene feels empty and im just curious what i can do to improve the scene aside from props, ill add those in after im done fleshing out the gameplay

[rose sentinel]

ambient occlusion and stronger shadows (just bake lightmaps)

[tacit seal]

cant really bake unfortunately, the room will be randomly generated each game ;-;

unless theres a way to do that

[terse lark]

you'd need something like bakery

[tacit seal]

oof

[rose sentinel]

then double down

take advantage of the fact your lighting is off and do cel shading or something

or maybe do some pixelation

maybe some sobel edge outlines

get creative 🤷‍♂️

[terse lark]

i mean lighting doesn't neccasarily have to be off

just not baked

[rose sentinel]

ig

maybe if the environment was darker, the lights would have a more visible effect

and maybe with some environmental particles like dust you could get something nice

[marble dragon]

When i use a soft brush to paint on my terrain it seems to be painting over it as if it were a low quality texture. is there something that im missing here?

[winter minnow]

That's what it is
Control Texture Resolution

[marble dragon]

i did increase the resolution from 512 to 1024 but the stepping has only slightly decreased.

and this is at 2048

it wasnt like this before

these are the setting

[winter minnow]

Doubling of the control texture only halves the pixelation, so it's not efficient to keep increasing it
Brush softness matters more for hiding the jaggedness
With 750 width and 2k control texture you would expect 2.73 terrain paint pixels per unit
To check that it's working as expected you could compare the jaggedness you see to a default cube to verify it's almost three pixels along the cube's width
And as a sanity check paint a bit at each corner of your terrain and then see that those strokes show up on the control texture asset itself

[marble dragon]

so if i increase the terrain dimension to 1024 and control tex resolution to 1k it should be fairly okay im guessing?

[winter minnow]

Increasing terrain dimensions decreases the relative resolution of control textures and other textures, as they're spread over a larger area
Decreasing control texture resolution obviously decreases the resolution of your splatmaps

The inspector screenshot shows control texture resolution of 2k, so 1k would not be an increase

[thin hearth]

How many terrains do you have and what's the target platform?

[marble dragon]

just 1 and PC

[thin hearth]

Alright. 4096 then, don't worry.

You can afford the few MB of memory on PC

[marble dragon]

cool, i'll try that thanks 🙂

[coral cliff]

How do you get custom trees on Unity Terrain in URP? SpeedTrees dont work due to the shader incompatibility with the way my shader handles leaves, and the default nature shader is built in. There doesnt seem to be any way to extend / trick unity into using a custom shader as a terrain tree shader.

[thin hearth]

Anything can be a terrain tree. Just use a prefab with a LOD Group

[coral cliff]

problem without implementing / extending shaders is that billboarding / lighting will not work correctly, and i need lighting to affect the trees, and want billboarding for the performance increase

I decided to use the GPU Resident drawer for instancing for now, albiet not supporting real time illumination is annoying

[golden basin]

i need help with terrain cuz im new to this. yk i am using the tree paint tool but after i save it with ctrl + s, they dissapear, they reappear tho if i apply the prefab again and then refrehs the tree paint

[drifting raft]

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[light bloom]

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[drifting raft]

ignore this thanks

[livid tide]

Hi everybody
Can someone help me with the map magic 2?

[thin hearth]

@woeful siren (you earned the accidental ping with a username like that 😄 )

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[ocean vale]

does anyone have an idea how i can solve the tree texture, i am in 3D built in render pipeline project, and even the conversion don't help, and every tree react like this, even if it's an other asset

[next escarp]

what shader is the tree using?

[next escarp]

can you open the shader, what does it show in the graph inspector?

[ocean vale]

the graph inspector ?

[next escarp]

its the thing on the right when you open the shader graph

[ocean vale]

ahem, i don't find it TwT

[next escarp]

you may need to enable / install shader graph in your project

[ocean vale]

i have the dependencies , yes

but i can't open it with the material of the tree

[vivid fog]

Do someone know how to fix this problem:

https://youtu.be/6RC9LsN_wmM?si=3EoPO0UTpjed4TTu

Because my game vehicle is also shaking similar to this when I try moving it on terrain

[night peak]

Hello guys. Im really new to unity, and game deving in general. I would like to know this issue im having. I 3d modeled a simple tree in blender and trying to import it as fbx so i could paint the trees to a terrain. But well it didnt have something called lod. I looked up and i found how to add ones. BUT the prefab doesnt have any renderers. Maybe i modeled it wrong, or imported it wrongly or just something. Could someone find me a good tutorial how to import 3d models from blender to unity. Since i didnt find one.

Thanks.

[vivid fog]

Unity is showing this error:
CS0246: The type or namespace name MaterialReferenceChanger could not be found
after importing Sample Assets Package & Terrain Tools
I am using Built-in render pipeline:

[red lion]

im tryna use this as terrain tree but its saying it dont have mesh renderer, parent has none but children do, how does one fix this

[winter minnow]

They should be a combined mesh one mesh renderer on the root gameobject
Don't know if there's a workaround to that requirement

[cold parrot]

I only need to paint trees but without a terrain, i need to paint directly top of the mesh, or collisions. Is there a possible way for that or do i need to make a custom tool for that? I have custom made mesh terrain with blender, and its way more better to work on it without terrain stuff. But trees should be added via using unity because of its LODs and collisions.

[thin hearth]

This is six bucks:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/prefab-brush-44846

If you're planning on having a lot of them you may want to do some instanced rendering though

Or eh, the CullingGroup API

[bitter junco]

Hello! 👋 if I was to be making a large scale world map, let's say several hundred miles², call it 600 miles² even. I appreciate breaking it into chunks for creation etc, what would you recommend would be a good size? Few hundred m², a mile²?

I recognise for any populated areas (settlements) you'd probably change up the working area for this, but as a general thought - what would be a good bet?

[solar swan]

if this is supposed to be a contiguous land mass, use a different engine or DIY a custom Terrain + streaming system using Entities (Unity does NOT help you in regard to asset streaming and the built-in terrain is not suitable for large worlds). Otherwise, if you don't plan to keep a huge landmass loaded and you have dedicated transition zones for loading: 1k-2k heightmap resolution is the sweet spot for unity. this means your chunks are 250-1000 world-units in size depending on desired per-unit resolution. The largest "single map" you can realistically do in unity is 8km^2, but only at fairly low resolution. Some will argue you can do more, some less, it depends on what you want to do with that terrain. In any case, expect lots of custom tooling work, its not only about runtime performance, the editor workflow with large worlds can get terrible quick.

[bitter junco]

Thanks so much for the detailed answer! So if I'm interpreting that right, a higher detailed area would want to be more towards the 250 unit size. For additional reference say an area of rolling hills.

When you say transition zones, is that in reference to essentially a loading screen? Or instead "x area is loaded as you approach"? Or is that more the streaming aspect.

If that's also the case, what alternative engine works best for this purpose in your opinion?

[solar swan]

yes, loading screen, you cannot realistically achieve smooth streaming with unity terrains and all the stuff that attaches to that, if you want actual streaming, you need a custom terrain system.

[solar swan]

unreal or cryengine

but they have other issues that also make it really tough to build large worlds

if you can share more about what the project actually is, maybe you don't really need "AAA terrain tools and world streaming":

UE/cryengine aim at streaming much more than just 'terrain'.

for example Valheim has a very large map, streamed as meshes, with their own system, not using unity terrains at all. They can do that because their world is largely procedural with very low view-distance. And they implement their custom asset streaming via asset bundles and only for some of the assets.

[bitter junco]

Well, the basic premise is cozy exploration, 19th/early 20th century rural region, so essentially many large sections of pasture/farmland, with forests dotted between, settlements would be primarily villages/hamets. Main transport would be foot travel or bicycle!

This in mind would lean towards a open world scenario, pre built maps/terrains rather than procedural

[solar swan]

imo, this sounds like you should be able to do it in unity, but unfortunatley they engine will get in your way (unless you do said DIY tooling) at the scale you want. if you can compress it into 4x4 km, you can easily do it in unity without much tool work, it just wont port to PS4 level consoles/mobile without some extra work.

if you can live with low-poly terrain, you can do it at 8km (low poly being around 1-2m per terrain triangle)

note that these arent "hard" limits, it just a very rough number that means "bigger will get really slow (workflow wise) and tedious for various reasons"

the 8km terrain constraint is mostly about memory -> lower resolution, fewer layers --> larger map

[bitter junco]

Good to know! I'll greybox a small portion, because obviously what is a 30 minute lovely walk irl, could well be very boring in game, so I need to tweak distances and whatnot.

Thank you so much

[solar swan]

have a look at horizon zero dawn, that is a 4km map

you can do a lot in 4km if you dont plan to have realistic mountains

iirc kingdom come deliverance is also around 4km

[thin hearth]

CryEngine is dead

[thin hearth]

There's a few specialized engines that support worlds this size, Unigine and O3DE are two I know of. But they don't have great pedigree.

Other than that, a custom engine is also not crazy when you have special requirements like this

[winter minnow]

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[gray night]

hey guys!

i need some assistance with terrains, i wanna make one terrain for well, terrain, and other one for trees solely.

so the tree terrain will not overlap with the first one

anyone got ideas how to do that?

[thin hearth]

I would not advice doing this.

It's not impossible, that's just spending a whole lot of data you don't need.

On second thought it is impossible. You can't get tree collision without the terrain collision.

[gray night]

you can understand russian?

i kinda do it for an good mechanic

for destroying trees

[thin hearth]

No.

[gray night]

cus on the same terrain that wont work like at all

okay so

ill try to explain

[thin hearth]

Place them in the scene as GameObjects

Make sure not to use CPU occlusion culling. Render them using instancing. Everything will be fast.

[gray night]

i used terrain to place a component to create a capsule trigger that would destroy them

can i do an parent empty gameobject

and then place trees in it so it will work?

[thin hearth]

Yes

[gray night]

any tips in what to change here?

i did this by guide, and sorry if disturbing you, but i cannot quite understand how to do it properly

[silk hornet]

Hello everyone. Not sure if this is the right channel, but I need to know; how can I fix the lighting in my URP 3D scene? Some of the textures are fully visible right now for some reason, and I want to make it more foggy and dark with dimly lit lights.. How can I achieve this?

[gray night]

dudeee

[gray night]

i think you need to be here https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1390346776804069396

[silk hornet]

Ah thank you

[gray night]

np my dude

or dude.. girl??

[silk hornet]

I'm a dude dude xdd

[scenic snow]

Anyone know how to fix this? When I paint or do mass place trees, they are put a foot above the terrain (left tree), but when I manually put the tree prefab down its flush with the terrain (right tree)

[winter minnow]

Prefab placement probably has some additional functionality to try to align the object's mesh or collider with the ground
Terrain's tree placement uses the mesh's pivot directly, whatever it is

[scenic snow]

So i need to manually edit the mesh's pivot then?

[winter minnow]

Yes, but first you can verify it's the issue
See if the move tool in pivot mode shows the mesh renderer's pivot in the wrong place

[scenic snow]

yeah the pivot point is like a foot below the tree

[dense palm]

do you guys know about any FREE tools to paint terrain in a 3d heightmap?

[red lion]

i think blender has

[pulsar flare]

Hello any ideas why my "grass" in the HDRP project (Unity6000.3) is changing to red when the source of the light changes its angle ? As You c an see I put the point light and walking around it...and the light changes the grass color from green to red....

(and not it is not purple one - with missing textures/wrong shader)

[winter minnow]

Incorrect or unassigned diffusion profile, related to subsurface scattering

[pulsar flare]

Let me check that...(I have absolutely no idea, what you are talking about 😄 )

Hmm I have created new Diffusion Profile, assign it to Global Volume override and checked that all subscattering is enabled in to project settings, but nothing has changes.... can you please help me a bit more ?

Ok I have found "Fix" button that had solved that problem!!! Thanks 😄

[winter minnow]

Iirc the subsurface scattering volume override is for ray traced subsurface scattering
Not necessary for the ordinary sort

As long as the subsurface scattering feature isn't wholly disabled in HDRP settings and the material has a valid diffusion profile, it should work

If you want subsurface scattering for that material, that is
It defines how light is tinted when it goes through a thin material
I guess the "fix" button you meant was for the warning that the diffusion profile used was not in the diffusion profile list

[humble veldt]

Just wanted to ask. How is that bad for my game. I’m try to optimise some staff in the game .For the most is that trees in background
I will took them away and want to replace with low poly trees for background
I have made a LOD although, but is it any good examples for background layout for such as games ?

[thin hearth]

It’s not bad. Keep in mind the scene is rendered multiple times (shadow mapping does one draw pass per cascade, for one).

Unity isn’t good at handling lots of geometry but your game doesn’t seem to have any issue here, even in the editor where it’s likely CPU bound.

[humble veldt]

Hmm, I just thought about 11m Verts….. and all of them is terrain component. If I will take away that it shows 600 000 total

[thin hearth]

Terrain or terrain grass?

Or trees?

[humble veldt]

All of them , terrain with grass and trees

[thin hearth]

Right, you should narrow it down. In the terrain settings you can toggle each separately.

If it's the terrain itself it can be reduced easily, but I suspect it's the trees

[humble veldt]

I made a grass density modification before, it can be although I think. Trees have 4500 tris each

[thin hearth]

Everything is rendered multiple times

[novel echo]

why isnt my grass brush thingy working?

[bitter junco]

Hiya 🙂 I've been wanting to make some of my own textures for painting the terrain (example above) my logic is to suit my art style more closely than asset packs of course.

do textures HAVE to be seamless tiles, or is there a way I can paint with them, adding random rotation etc?

[winter minnow]

Terrain shaders don't support any automatic / procedural stochastic tiling techniques
So when going with default shaders they do have to be seamless, and that's the simplest and cheapest way
I think 6.3. now has a shadergraph template for custom Terrain shaders so changing that for a different type of terrain layer mapping shouldn't be a huge hassle
There's an old official example for procedural stochastic texturing too, though this one is probably built more for accuracy than performance

[ocean hornet]

Hi yall, for a school assignment I have to make a game in unity and my team wants to have some sort of indoor terrain generation and have assigned me to it. I made an algorithm here, but how do I make this into unity? Where do I even get started, I basically know nothing.

[ruby ridge]

When memory profiling we're seeing about 2.5GB of 'Tree Imposters' being generated by Unity. We dont even have that many trees in our scene. Does anyone have any idea how we can stop this? it happens in both editor and in builds

[fathom coral]

I'm new to using terrain and my detail mesh is stuck in the floor, what can I do to offset it

[spiral garden]

Check what it's referenced by until you get to an object that you do include in the build explicitly.

[thin hearth]

You can't offset it in Unity, you'll have to offset the actual vertex data in a 3D editor

[ruby ridge]

Its trees. We include trees in the build, but Unity creates a bunch of random 'Tree Imposter' objects with seemingly no way to prevent this functionality. Found a few forum post referencing the issue but nobody has any solutions. The best we can do is let it generate them, then go through with reflection and crunch them all down to 1x1, but the memory is still taken on start causing crashes on low memory devices. If we disable all trees on the terrain, they aren't generated. https://discussions.unity.com/t/tree-impost-texture-terrain-memory/817187/6

The imposters also only show in memory profiler, cant see them anywhere else

[spiral garden]

Huh... I don't remember unity creating imposters automatically... Are you sure it's not some kind of plugin/asset?

Or manually for that matter.

[ruby ridge]

yeah, we suspected Amplify imposters at first, but removing it doesn't get rid of them. All of the render textures are fully black too. Not used anywhere.

[spiral garden]

Well, it's kinda hard to say anything without seeing more details. Maybe you can share a screenshot from the memory profiler?

Are any of the trees made with unity tree editor?

[ruby ridge]

nope, just our own meshes

heres the memory profiler

[spiral garden]

What do you see in the references if you drag this down?

[ruby ridge]

I have just found this, which had previously been marked as wont fix, but now appears to have been fixed https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/terrain-creates-a-tree-imposter-texture-for-a-tree-when-the-tree-does-not-use-it

[spiral garden]

And if you expand the imposter camera?

What unity version are using btw?

[ruby ridge]

6000.2.13f1 - and none of the references can be found in the scene, we can only get them through code, which is how we can crunch them down after they're generated

[spiral garden]

Is that in the editor?

Doesn't seem like something that would exist in the build.

Also 6.2 isn't even an LTS, so there might be bugs that won't be fixed.

[ruby ridge]

this is a profile from a build, and this issue has persisted through several unity versions

though, it does appear that unity might have finally fixed this in 6.3 according to this issue tracker https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/terrain-creates-a-tree-imposter-texture-for-a-tree-when-the-tree-does-not-use-it

[spiral garden]

6.0 too.

By staying on 6.2 you're missing lts fixes.

[ruby ridge]

yeah, we'll upgrade to 6.3 when we can. This issue was marked as 'Wont fix' until recently, so good to see ti finally marked as fixed. Thanks for your help 👍

[neat burrow]

hello, does terrain have a LOD built in? if so how does it work for details/trees?

[thin hearth]

• Terrain itself has LOD, using the "pixel error" value as a modifier
• Details have no LOD, but render only up to a certain distance. If you disable shadow mapping for details, they'll be very lightweight to render, though.
• Trees are typically driven using the LOD Group component

[livid tide]

Hey i was trying height maps to create terrain but it always turn out blocky but to get higher quality terrain data I use NOAA but it need qgis and more before I get a height map what should I do? Should I try to get better quality height map or should I do something else

[neat burrow]

i see, thank you!!

[livid tide]

No bodys gonna help 🥺

[atomic imp]

Ooh
I can help you create that