Relief Terrain Pack (RTP) v3 on AssetStore

OK, thanks.

Do you think this DX11 texture handling array functionality will be available in Unity 5 ?
Or am i asking something you don't know either here, cause that sounds fantastic.

 

I haven't hear about this. You need to ask someone else .

 

Where I can change UV blend routing or reset slider on 8th layer?
In attach my LOD manager settings

 

You need to enable at least first pass - then you'll have foldout for this enabled. Look at my first steps video (new version).

Tom

 

Hey, I'm having this odd problem, and I can't work out what's going on. I'm using TC, RTPv3, and AFS is in the project (AFS is not in the scene). I'm using deferred rendering. ReliefShaders_applyLightForDeferred is applied to the camera.

As I move around, the area in front of the camera is this very light colour. I had a similar problem before, where the area further away would be completely black.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: Using DX11

 

How to I remove caves? (Alpha texture)

 

The script should be attached to the main (directional) light, not camera. Refer to my new video and docs. This Should solve the problem. If the problem is also experienced in forward you can also have issues with detail normalmaps. Check if they are properly managed (combined) in combined textures / normals tab.

Cut holes feature can be disabled in LOD manager. Place white alpha channel in global colormap to remove them, too (when the feature is used). Refer to my docs.

Tom

 

After applying the settings for DX11 mode/PC, adding 1st pass and recompile.. I get a weird tiling effect... See screen capture below. I am currently using Unity 4.5.

 

How many terrain tiles do you have on the scene ?

 

Not sure.. I used WC for this.. Extracting a 16km x 16km area. tiles are = to 15x15

 

I could imagine it's something like 16x16 looking at this liting issue. When you're using WC - after placing terrain objects you can add RTP component manually (with multiselection). Then - I'm not sure but this is probably what can be done in WC - you can automatically assign global color textures from WC to RTP. When using such number of tiles uncheck "U4 materials" in LOD manager.

Tom

 

Thank you Tom, I will give this a try and let you know of the results.

 

Any help with this.. would be greatly appreciated.. ^

 

I was able to get RTP working... somewhat, but I have this weird thing happening here with theses tiles

 

If you don't use materials (you shouldn't or you'll kill CPU with such number of tiles... ) this might mean that some tiles got different reference to globalSettingsHolder object inside ReliefTerrain object attached to a tile. Normally they all should have the same, shared globalSettingsHolder object. Quickest way to check if this is the case (this is a bug, I know) is selecting one tile and going to any RTP section in inspector. Then when you select the other tile (which differs in look) RTP inspector there will be probably in different "state" (section). This means that your globalSettingsHolder object is not shared across whole scene, but, somehow different tiles uses different globalSettingsHolder which is supposed to be the same for whole scene. I'm not sure if this is RTP bug or WC causes this somehow when managing automatially RTP. You could ask nathaniel about it. This moment you can remove RTP from every tile (multiselect them and remove RTP component). Then apply it again. First for one tile, then via multiselection for the others. RTP globalSettingsHolder should be the same then. The only problem for you is assigning global colormaps (and global normalmaps if used) to every tile. If WC can't do it separately, you'll probably need to make it by hand or write script for that (tglobal colormap variable is exposed as public for every ReliefTerrain object and listed in my pdf so this is not that hard to make).

Tom

 

Hey, any plans on a timeframe for compatibility with Unity 5? As expected, there's a bunch of errors

 

I'll try to look into this as soon as I get beta.

 

Any news on a multiterrain, 8 textures tutorial?

 

Where is location of LOD data?

 

Sorry, don't understand question... Which LOD do you mean. Shading LOD level (like POM, SIMPLE), LOD manager object, another levels ?

Tom

 

I took a look on this and it seems ... not that bad , but as you probably know we can not discuss U5 beta issues in public... After installing RTP - use "patching" functionality (will convert scripts to versions that can be compiled). Then change 2 remaining error lines with opposite condition ".NonDirectional" in if statements. Then this will work. But still - U5 introduces changes in rendering pipeline. At this moment you can't use lightmaps (Unity's) - check nolightmaps in LOD manager or shaders won't compile for forward rendering path. Another issue is that 8 layers mode in one (first) pass doesn't work. Use 2 passes (4+4) or simply terrain that use only 4 layers (then only first pass will be used). I reported this to Unity and hopefully they will fix it before U5 is out.

Yes, I've got it in my schedule for "near future" . I'll proceed with more tutorials. You might notice there is new first steps tutorial done as it was most urgent "tutorial" job. So - as you're waiting for this I'll probably do it as next tutorial.

ATB, Tom

 

Hi Tomaszek

just a question
I use the uv blend to hide grass on the sand?
The UV repetition is too visible

 

It's probably not related to UV blend, but heightmaps - grass layer bleeds on bumps of sand ("wins" in heightblend selection"). Try to increase sand coverage here (manually using Unity's terrain brush). When coverage in control splat texture is set to 1 you should get grass there.

Tom

P.S. Very tasty screenshot .

 

Complete noob here, so please excuse this probably stupid question

I am dabbling with Unity for the first time, and I am playing around with RTP at the moment. I have it working on my terrain (which now looks awesome!) however I wanted to mess with the water feature. When I load in RTP, global wetness is at 1 by default and the terrain is darkened by the effect. However no flowing water is actually visible anywhere on the terrain at all. What am I missing?

EDIT

Ok, so it was Water Level that was preventing the water from being seen! I can now see the water itself, but no flowing animation

Here are my settings, and what I see on the terrain

 

Thank But, it's your work!

 

Nice, saw the new video and its a very good one : )

 

You need to have perlin normal texture active. If you haven't visit perlin normal tab in inspector - do it. It's shown in my First Steps video tutorial (new one) - this produces combined texture. Then - make sure your layer use at least PM shading level. By default when you use 8 layers - layers 4-8 are marked to be rendered as SIMPLE which will not show you ripples (taken from perlin texture). After proper recompilation of RTP shaders in LOD manager you can adjust these settings per layer.

Tom

 

LOD manager.

 

Follow my video tutorial - first steps. It's presented there. This the object added to the scene where you manipulate RTP features and recompile shaders.

Tom

 

I want to restore values from my backup or reset to default.

 

"change 2 remaining error lines with opposite condition ".NonDirectional" in if statements. Then this will work."

Thanks Tom!

 

To reset LOD manager to its virgin state its possible only when you reimport shaders from RTP package. For restoring RTP object (ReliefTerrain script) attached to your terrain you can use restore to default button at the bottom of inspector. Refer to my documentation (pdf).

Tom

 

Thankyou! I needed to head to the perlin tab to initialize it! my bad.

I experience an issue with the DX11 player setting in U4.5.3f3 where I need to turn it off to get RTP to display on my projects terrain. Switching it back on usually ends up with black terrain. It could well be due to running unity on my laptop with integrated graphics.

Thanks for the response, and RTP is absolutely amazing!

 

Apply ReliefShaders_applyLightForDeferred.cs script to the main directional light and this should work in DX11.

Tom

 

Hi,
A video of my project with RTP3 + Terrain Composer.
The island is made with 16 terrains of 2500 x 2500.
Work fine in 64b

 

Hey, so I have spent the past three days really digging into RTP3 but I have one outstanding issue that I can't skirt, help really appreciated.
I am using Terrain Composer, AFS and RTP3.
I can get the scene looking great but if I save the scene or when I first open I see the terrain as black or highly tiled without much of the effects applied until I go to the terrain composer and hit SetAll on the splatmap. This is troublesome as everytime I close and reopen the unity editor, save a scene or compile a verision it doesn't apply all the effects.
my latest compiled version has the terrain looking like this.

when it should looks like this in the editor after I hit <Set All>

and this when I hit save, or first open unity, or Alt-Tab out.

 

Okay so the <SetAll> does the same as the Refresh All on the Settings>Main tab of RTP3 with the terrain selected. This is not occuring by default and is not saving when I save the scene

 

Beautiful...

This is the know issue of refreshing shaders parameters. This happens when you use materials (so preferably in setup of relatively small number of terrain objects present). Once I fixed this in RTP3.1c I restored to previous functionality in RTP3.1d. You can open ReliefTerrain-FirstPass.shader and look at comment in line 17-18. Uncommenting material property section will resolve your issue, but beware - any property on the material list impact CPU hit adversely. The issue can be nasty in editor (you need to use RefreshAll button every time you save scene or alt+Tab) but this should not be the issue when you build your game (terrain is preapred at Awake call). This is dilema here - fixing issue can make your life easy in editor (uncomment property block in firstpass shader) but you'll notice in profiler that every terrain object in scene eats much CPU. So - the option is - uncomment this when working, but remember to comment it back when build the game.

Anyway - don't worry that something hasn't get saved. Everything IS saved - the only issue is that Unity looses parameters that need to be present for shaders (they are not passed to terrain material after scene save or alt+tab).

Tom

 

Thank you so much for a timely response, the issue was associated with having U4 and far distance selected in the RTP3 manager. Although the issue persists as you described it doesn't stay once I compiled so there is no issue.

 

Quick question with the geometry blending. Does it work with group LOD component for models?

 

I haven't checked, but I doubt. you would need to process all LOD mesh levels (preparing correct vertex colors for blending).

Tom

 

I suspected as much. I would think if anything you would see an obvious pop between the LOD's.

 

Please help me Tom
-Affter i update relief terrain (form 3.1 to 3.1d) it like this
All setting is the same, just import, then reset RTP manager, i also re-attach Relief Terrain script to terrain.
Before

Affter

All setting is the same

 

Hi, are you aware about attaching script to main directional light (described many times before) ? Please give me exact LOD manager setup for shader recompilation. Quick idea is - do you use "no colormap at far distance" ? If so - there might be problem in DX11 indeed. I can give the fix then here on the forum here. This is not included in RTP3.1d (will do in 3.1e):

Find this line in RTP_Base.cginc and RTP_AddBase.cginc:

Code (csharp):

1. float colAlbedoRGBmax=max(max(colAlbedo.r, colAlbedo.g), colAlbedo.b);

and add this line below:

Code (csharp):

1. colAlbedoRGBmax=max(colAlbedoRGBmax, 0.01);

If the problem is what I suspect this should fix the issue (remember to recompile shaders and Refresh All in terrain settings too).

Tom

 

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
ReliefTerrainEditor.OnEnable () (at Assets/ReliefPack/Editor/ReliefTerrain/ReliefTerrainEditor.cs:70)

 

Which RTP version do you use? It's virtually impossible to have such error in this line. Although you need to be careful about adding/removing terrain layers after you added RTP component to terrain object. Null refereces are most frequently caused by this.

Tom

 

Hi Tom, what are u thinking about Unity 5 and RTP?

 

Already answered a few posts above

 

Hi. I bought this asset but after import, there is an error:

Assets/ReliefPack/Editor/ReliefTerrain/GeometryVsTerrainBlendEditor.cs(36,33): error CS0117: `Tools' does not contain a definition for `current'

How can i fix this error?