Streaming world demo

Unity Engine
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Over the last few days I have been trying to integrate the streaming world demo architecture into building my world, and I wish it was where I started.

I have over 30 tiles originally and it was bogging down because of memory issues, so I started refining and reducing tiles in my scene to make it less of a resource hog.

What I didnt know was there was a better way of making each tile its own level, something I must have missed in the documentation, so if its there make it BOLD.

The scripts were originally intended for a world 6x6 in size but that wasnt big enough for me I had to edit it and make it scalable to 32x32. Everything seemed to work perfectly for me, so I started importing heightmaps, painting terrains, applying errosion, you know all the good stuff, and when I went to generate the assetbundles, it now crashes.

I know theres no documentation on this, or any tutorial but I could really use help on this.

I know tiles are broken up into scenes and there is a zones folder, so I ask, is there a limit on the number of scenes in a zone? If there is how do I make a zone?

I know I only have a day or 2 on my unity pro trial, and this will be a moot point in a few days, but I would really like to see this work before I plop down my $1200, its a lot of money for me.

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wheres the streaming world demo?

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I really had to look for it, and the only link I found was on another forum post but you can download it here.

http://beta.unity3d.com/joe/streaming/StreamingWorldDemo.zip

I ended up having to delete a bunch of my tiles in order to make it work. This scares me because there seems to be a memory cap on generating the assetbundles.

There needs to be a tutorial for this demo, I am surprised there isnt more talk about this, when it works, it works great.

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thanks dredawg! will let you know my experiences with it.

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did you ever figure this out? my project needs to make a spce 14 miles long by 4 miles wide and I was curious if making the tiles 32x32 worked for you.

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I tried it for a while but every time I generated the assets, i kept getting errors that I could not resolve. Seems I had 2 audio listeners in the scene, and I spent hours going through the scripts and scenes with no progress.

I was hoping some official documentation was available as this was announced in 2.1 Unite Presentation, but I havent found any.

That said, using the demo as a base it should serve your purposes well. The demo is a 6x6 tileset, or 12kmx12km at a 2000px resolution. Set each tile at 4000 though and your project will fit without modifying code.

1 Note though, you will need to have Unity Pro for this to work as it requires AssestBundles.

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Sorry to resurrect the dead here, Has anyone got this to work? or have any info for a novice on it’s usage?

I get the following two errors on import:

Assets/Editor/GenerateScenes.cs(53,52): error CS0103: The name `TerrainLighting’ does not exist in the current context

Assets/Editor/GenerateScenes.cs(53,41): error CS1061: Type UnityEngine.Terrain' does not contain a definition for lighting’ and no extension method lighting' of type UnityEngine.Terrain’ could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)