Changes made to terrain alpha maps are persistant.

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Hi!

When I make changes to the terrains textures during runtime by changing the alphamaps, the changes are permanently saved onto the terrain (in the scene, not(!) only during runtime). I can’t image that this is supposed to work this way, but anyway, whether it’s a bug or a “feature”, is there a way that changes made to the terrains textures are reverted at the end of runtime?

Thanks in advance for any help!

EDIT:

Here’s the code, which simply retrieves the alphamap for a specific position and re-weights the first texture to 100%. The Flush in the end doesn’t seem to do anything, maybe deprecated!?

        Terrain terrain = GameObject.Find("Terrain").GetComponent<Terrain>();
        TerrainData terrainData = terrain.terrainData;
        Vector3 terrainPos = terrain.transform.position;

        // calculate which splat map cell the worldPos falls within (ignoring y)
        int mapX = (int)(((worldPos.x - terrainPos.x) / terrainData.size.x) * terrainData.alphamapWidth);
        int mapZ = (int)(((worldPos.z - terrainPos.z) / terrainData.size.z) * terrainData.alphamapHeight);

        // get the splat data for this cell as a 1x1xN 3d array (where N = number of textures)
        float[, ,] splatmapData = terrainData.GetAlphamaps(mapX, mapZ, 1, 1);

        splatmapData[0, 0, 0] = 1;
        splatmapData[0, 0, 1] = 0;
        splatmapData[0, 0, 2] = 0;
        splatmapData[0, 0, 3] = 0;

        terrainData.SetAlphamaps(mapX, mapZ, splatmapData);
        terrain.Flush();
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You can do a script for putting the same textures in the terrain when you press stop.