Has anybody used the new Terrain tool?
Even if i do a very simple Terrain with nothing more then one texture and compile it and run it on the phone it take 10+ seconds to load. I have tried different size on the Terrain and even add more textures, trees and grass on it.
It still take much time to load,
I tried different quality in rendering, but no different.
Also the memory use do take up alot more. almost dubble.
mmm I havnt tried, but with Galaxy S i have to wait about 5 seconds to launch a super simple game
Yes it takes a lot of time to load, its a massive thing as it has to load the heightmap, generate the terrain from it, load the foliage and detail maps and place / instantiate the objects etc …
its also not very runtime performant for the old “single core slow devices” as collision takes a fair amount of time (physics in general)
Its a thing I would definitely only recommend for Galaxy S2 / iPad 2 class hardware, don’t try to use it in general games.
Terrain4Mobile from Stephane on the Asset Store easily outperforms it on single core devices.