[Bug?] No visible terrain.

Need some help. Am I missing something obvious?

No terrain appears when creating a terrain (see screenshot).

  • Install Unity3D
  • Create new project
  • Terrain → Create Terrain.
  • That’s it… nothing shows.

Note that the terrain exist as you can see it in the preview when selecting the camera!!! (see second screenshot)

Turning zooming the camera will not help showing a terrain in the Scene view.

I tried to import various assets packages but it didn’t help.
The editor logs didn’t tell of any error.

Any idea?

PS: the camera gizmos seems strange too


I’ve heard from another using having this.

sure you have the most current graphics drivers directly from the manufacturer (not windows update) and that your gpu is strong enough for creating (not playing) games?

Well… I could use create Unity applications.
Although I didn’t need to use the terrain editor until now.

My graphic card is old but it strikes me as strange that a “simple” terrain object needs more gpu power than all the other assets. The requirement only state: " Graphics card with 64 MB of VRAM and pixel shaders or 4 texture units. Any card made in this millennium should work."

Is there a pixel shader version required?

Open the Layer dropdown in the top-right of the screen. Make sure everything is checked.

OMG that was it… Thanks Dman

At least I hope it will help some other newbies (I just downgraded from proficient to newbie)