Streaming Several Terrains.

Unity Engine
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Hello is it possible to make the Unity3D engine stream several Terrain meshes creating a huge open seamless world?

We are aiming for some kind of a tile system. I’m not a coder but let me explain what i am imagining.

We imagine that all the different terrain meshes are 1000x1000 in size. Now look at this visual representation :stuck_out_tongue: Each X represents a Terrain Mesh.

X X X X
X X X X
X X X X Now imagine that your computer has only loaded the Small X’s and theplayer is located in the O tile
X X X X Like this next visual representation.

x x x X
x O x X
x x x X The computer has only loaded the small x’s and the O where the player is located. So naturally if the player
X X X X moves around, he maybe enters another x, the computer will unload the out of range X’s and load the new X
that are in range.

I dont know if you understand what im trying to explain, but bear with me, i am not a coder :stuck_out_tongue:

Can something like this be done? Maybe not exactly like im showing with the X’s, but something similar allowing for a big seamless world?

2

You can unrender and or deactivate the terrains depending on where your character is positioned and adjust your far clip plane of your camera to not see past that point.

3

So coder guy would be able to do something like this? :stuck_out_tongue:

4

Would something like this help with precision point errors? When loading into a new X the coordinate system changes to. If so this would really help with a flight simulator type game.