Loading terrainData from Resources into existing Terrain object using UnityScript

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1

I want to load different terrainData assets from the Resources folder at runtime. The following doesn't work in Unity 3.0f5. I'm clearly misunderstanding something about the relationship between a Terrain script/object and the terrainData.

var pathString : String;
var newTerrainData : TerrainData = Terrain.activeTerrain.terrainData;
newTerrainData = UnityEngine.Resources.Load(pathString, TerrainData) as TerrainData;
Terrain.activeTerrain.Flush();
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Don't you need to assign back the terrainData object to the terrain? I mean, after: newTerrainData = UnityEngine.Resources.Load(pathString, TerrainData) as TerrainData; You need to do: Terrain.activeTerrain.terrainData = newTerrainData As the terrainData object you placed in the newTerrainData is not a pointer to the terrainData in your activeTerrain, but it is a copy of it. In fact, you can disregard the line 2 and skip directly to line 3