toxic vigil
https://mystb.in/BathParticipatingInvitation.csharp Asset Saving Script
https://mystb.in/ReportDuringSorts.csharp Shader
https://mystb.in/AsinSubaruDrugs.csharp Texture Data Scriptable Object
After Generation... I have to press the Update Button on the TextureData SO to make the material not-black in-editor.
Im 90% sure it has to do with that.
Does anyone know? I'm a little desperate
I'm trying to save the generated material (s) as an asset, so the prefabs have the correct material data.. but they're saving as black (the default colour of the material) I'm not sure how to save it correctly
As an example, this is what it should save as:
But its just black
As you can see, the referenced material is "black" to begin with, but i change it via script. (Texture Data Scriptable Object) to get the correct data.
Does anyone know how i can save the material correctly?
toxic vigil
Anyone? 😭
knotty drift
Are you using the alpha anywhere? Because right now all your tings are set to zero alpha.
toxic vigil
The alpha doesnt affect anything
those colours are just a tint, im not using any tints :p
toxic vigil
Please
strong wharf
But its just black
Okay, real quick sanity check: Are they actually black or are they just showing up that way in the inspector? If you drag them onto an object without opening them, are they still black?
toxic vigil
Yea @strong wharf the actual material is black. At runtime it changes
(Last photo I sent) shows the default material in assets
strong wharf
Yea <@153950686088921088> the actual material is black. At runtime it changes
Okay, so, if I understand this right:
Is this the correct understanding of the flow/error?
toxic vigil
Correct
quiet hatch
What does one of the saved materials actually look like
toxic vigil
@quiet hatch literally completely black
quiet hatch
The actual inspector.
toxic vigil
Sorry, just woke up. I'll be at the pc in 5 mins
@quiet hatch
the is the inspector of the generated terrain chunk while in playmode
quiet hatch
Why is there no texture set in playmode?
I think the issue is that none of your variables are serialized
toxic vigil
I followed sebastian lagues landmass generation tutorial
quiet hatch
so they only exist on the instances at runtime, and as soon as you try to copy or reload they will disappear
toxic vigil
is there an easy way to see if that would fix it
quiet hatch
I think, making all of the variables that you want to save have matching parameters. You should be able to look at the material in debug mode and see what it's currently serializing
toxic vigil
I have no idea how to do this, Never used CG before
this is whats currently serializing on the mat @quiet hatch
quiet hatch
Take a look in the Saved Properties
Do you have variables in there - but just no interesting values?
toxic vigil
None of it, it looks like
quiet hatch
in the floats are all the ones you intend to use in there?
toxic vigil
only "testScale" is there
quiet hatch
It might be that only properties that are in the Properties block are serialized
Anything that you expect to save will need to have a property declared I imagine
toxic vigil
Do you know how to do that? if i copy them all into properties i get an error
quiet hatch
toxic vigil
they're all arrays though
Alright, i got this. But im unsure how to serialize a float3
when serializing the attributes, They're all white now. Perhaps i need to change the code
public void ApplyToMaterial(Material material)
{
material.SetInt("layerCount", layers.Length);
material.SetColorArray("baseColours", layers.Select(x => x.tint).ToArray());
material.SetFloatArray("baseStartHeights", layers.Select(x => x.startHeight).ToArray());
material.SetFloatArray("baseBlends", layers.Select(x => x.blendStrength).ToArray());
material.SetFloatArray("baseColorStrengths", layers.Select(x => x.tintStrength).ToArray());
material.SetFloatArray("baseTextureScales", layers.Select(x => x.textureScale).ToArray());
Texture2DArray texturesArray = GenerateTextureArray(layers.Select(x => x.texture).ToArray());
material.SetTexture("baseTextures", texturesArray);
UpdateMeshHeights(material, savedMinHeight, savedMaxHeight);
}```I don't think you can serialize arrays can you? That's not showing up as an array in the inspector
I don't think what you want is actually possible like this. Sadly it would be much easier if you made a ScriptableObject that had the data that you later applied to your material at runtime.
toxic vigil
Thats what i have, its in the pictures above
toxic vigil
Here
quiet hatch
Then why are you trying to save material assets
quiet hatch
Save them with a component on them that references the ScriptableObject that canbe used to set values on the material at runtime
burnt rose
marcos
toxic vigil
@burnt rose What