Okay, so I’ve been using the terrain functions and they’re all working well (speed trees, grass, texture painting, etc.) but for some reason, the detail mesh painting just isn’t co-operating.
So here I showcase 3 things:
1 - The grass paints on the terrain just fine, so there’s no issue.
2 - The third detail in the list (IslePebbleObj) just does not draw onto the terrain at all.
3 - The one that DOES draw on (Rock01) doesn’t draw on correctly; as you can see it leaves odd gaps.
I also tested with a cube prefab I made in Unity and it works just fine; so I tried to just make a regular object out of my rock/pebble models (that I imported) so that they’d be no different to the cube, but it didn’t work anyway (basically I dragged the imported model onto the scene, then made it into a prefab, just like the cube).
These models are visible on the scene when I drag them in, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s FBX (preferred) or OBJ or whatever. The two rock/pebble details you see were imported the exact same way, both as FBX files, just as different models; so why does one work (kinda) and the other doesn’t?
Are there any settings I need to have specifically set for detail meshes to work or is it all a bug?
Also, I’m using the latest version of Unity (5.5.1), 64-bit on Windows.
First, having the meshes actually appear and work properly. When making the object in blender, you need to unwrap the object and apply a material to it; not sure why you need to do both but that’s the only way it works (also, rotate it 90 degrees on the X-axis, and click Ctrl+A and apply rotation - then when exporting, set forward to Y and Z-up).
Secondly, the missing spaces were appearing as some counter-measure to having too many detail meshes on the screen at once (at least in scene view). Drawing them on in large numbers (like one click with a large brush and max opacity/strength) will do this; draw on less at once and more spread out.
(My issue was the textures not appearing on the mesh/object. I created my own shader and apparently Unity error msg complaining about “Material doesnt have a texture property “_MainTex””, so I named my Albedo texture slot to “_MainTex”,This is kind of dumb, but another fix if any of you have similar problems. Thanks)
