Terrain Serializer

Terrain Serializer is a lightweight script that lets you Save/Load Unity's Terrain at runtime.

You can use it to save few hours of work/ headache, or to learn how to serialize and interact with terrain data. The codes are kept simple and can be easily modified/extended/integrated.

Documentation

Features

* Save/Load Tree Instances
* Save/Load HeightMap
* Save/Load AlphaMap
* Save/Load DetailMap
* Save/Load Terrain (All the maps/tree data)
* Serialize/Deserialize at both runtime/editor
* Source code included

Limitation

Terrain Serializer does not serialize meshes(tree etc), textures(grounds etc) etc. That means, for example, if sand ground texture is replaced by mud texture on the terrain editor, mud will appear in place of sand when the terrain is deserialized.

Terrain Serializer does not create new Terrain. It applies serialized data(maps, trees and detail positions,size, etc) to the existing terrain.

It can completely restore a terrain given that the terrain has the same set of brushes(trees, details etc)

Example Usage

To serialize Terrain, call
TerrainSerializer.Save( filePath, terrain );

To deserialize Terrain, call
TerrainSerializer.Load( filePath, terrain);

Each map/tree data can be individually serialized/deserialized if desired. For more methods and information, please refer to the documentation.

Support

Please feel free to ask questions or request new features.

Tested and works on Unity 5.3 and 2017

 

Download link?

 

found it here

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/input-management/terrain-serializer-100434

 

This is quite old, still relevant?

I would definitely like to know what size the serialized file comes out to?

Say for instance you had a height map of 4097x4097 and you are only saving the height map, what size are you getting?