2 Textures 1 Terrain

Unity Engine
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Ok so this isnt so simple.

1 Terrain, with 1 texture(splatmap) covering the entire terrain.

so terrain x and y =2000, Splatmap also = 2000.

How do I switch its texture with another texture?

I tried duplicating the terrain and switching one off and the other on, but when you change the splat of Terrain1, Terrain2 also changes…hahahahahaha!

Any help out there? I thought toggling terrains was a shoe-in but it turns out its not.

Thanks
AaronC

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depending on the detail, desired size, and complexity of your terrain you might be able to get away with exporting your terrain to a 3D modeling app, and then reimporting the mesh into Unity. You could then treat the terrain like a normal game object and switch textures that way.

*although every time I played around with exporting terrains the triangle count was staggeringly high.

The other option (in my head) is to simply create the terrain from scratch in a 3D modeling app. But you wouldn’t get the nice height manipulation and texture tools.

I am not sure if there is a way to export the splatmap… if there is, then you might be able to alter it as a new version and then swap just the splatmap.

** from what I understand, much of the terrain engine is able to be altered via script, but the documentation is not written for it… something about UT worrying about users breaking things.

I hope some of this helps, I would love to hear how you end up doing this.

~cDixRun

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Thanks, I ended up hiring Yilmaz to come up with a solution as hes pretty sharp in all things code:

(VoxelBoy)
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=48564

So as its a solution that represents an investment Id be happy to onsell it at a lesser cost to recuperate some costs. Probably $10? If you’re ok with that drop me a PM…
Cheers
AC