TerraLand 3 - Streaming Huge Real-World & Custom Terrains For Open-World Environments

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Please note that the Zoom Level in Interactive Map window of TL is for visual references only which is used for area definition and does not change the final resolution of the downloading satellite image(s).

So choosing different mapping sources in Interactive Map section is only for previewing the area and does not affect terrains’ elevation/imagery data source as TerraLand obtains its data from ESRI only.

More on this: TerraLand 2 – High Quality Photo-Realistic Terrains from Real-World GIS Data page-7#post-3164935

Yes, it was there from the beginning but with another terminology than the zoom level. In TL you can have arbitrary tile resolution for both Heightmap & Imagery data through their dedicated sections as following:

The option to give each tile its user-defined resolution is available because ESRI servers output results through its rendering algorithms instead of mosaic based manipulation of tiles like Bing/Google and most mapping providers support and are static. TL is the only asset with this feature and can handle dynamic resolutions for the tiles:

TerraLand 2 – High Quality Photo-Realistic Terrains from Real-World GIS Data page-4#post-2813587

Also in TerraLand there’s a section called “Engine Resolution Presets” which you can use pre-defined presets for the UI resolution settings and the Manual mode to go on and set desired resolutions for yourself:

Also different mapping sources provide different resolutions of data throughout the Earth surface and it is possible that any of them has better resolution than the others but with the toolset available in TerraLand you can also use custom elevation/imagery/splat data from other sources and get them used through processors in TL:

TerraLand 2 – High Quality Photo-Realistic Terrains from Real-World GIS Data page-4#post-2826055

P.S. well done for your project, pretty nice workflow you have there.