TerraVol: volumetric/voxel terrain system. Dig holes caves in your terrains!

Could you be a bit more specific?

E.g. do you mean "when the camera moves, the game runs slow -- why?" If so, TV is multi-threaded but lots of stuff must be done on Unity main thread -- mostly due to Unity design (e.g. mesh assignment and Collider generation from mesh -- a known "delayed cost" IIRC). HTH ... though I'm not sure this is your problem though since I've not seen too much of this. So, er, please clarify?

 

Literally the simplest setup of creating a BlockSet and a Map/Map Generator, assigning the camera and then running. It takes a good half second for each chunk to draw in and continues as you move the camera around in the X and Z axes.

 

Could this merely be throttling?
Do you notice any indications of performance issues?

Separately, what sort of spec machine(s) are you seeing this on?

 

if you're moving too fast the generator has no time

 

Ya, I'd add that you can change the distance Chunks are initially generated out to, the range they're removed and the range they're added to. As such, the onus is on the developer to set those values appropriately for your setup (scene complexity, etc).

Like I said, check whether there's actually a performance issue occurring (rather than just some numbers need tuning).
(and what @laurentlavigne said )

 

Ok so I have some questions. I tried to use TerraVol but I have some problems.
First there is no documentation what so ever. The links to your docu are broken and all the assets gives you are the same not working links.
2nd, it seems like your shader is broken? All i get from your shader and demo scenes is pink terrain...

Is this asset still maintained?

 

No, it's not. And neither is uterrains, incase you were looking for an alternative ;-)

 

Ok thx, and i guess noone has an idea how to fix the shader?

 

I have a local copy of the documentation. Anyone see any reason I can't upload it here?

Regarding the shader, IIRC it's a pre-compiled shader. As such no, but we might be able to fix or build another?

 

There's no need to re-upload, it's still on Google Docs.

 

So what *other* alternatives are there for infinite terrain?

 

Well if you just need infinite terrain and using Unity Terrain is satisfactory, here are two strong possibilities:

Map Magic - procedural terrain.
Terrain Composer v2 has it on the roadmap too.
(I'll update this post with links when I'm not on my mobile.)

However these don't do many of the things a voxel system does (e.g. digging) ... although I suspect Terrain Composer v2 might do aspire to since it uses GPU acceleration to regenerate the terrain!

See above for lists (including mine) of other voxel engines.

HTH, R.

 

Just bought this asset based off of a couple of youtube videos, wish I had came here first though .

The examples don't show any terrain which is a bit strange and when running any of the example scenes I get the following:

UnityException: TerraMap has not been initialized properly
TerraMapGenerator.Start () (at Assets/TerraVolPack/TerraVol/Scripts/Generator/TerraMapGenerator.cs:86).

which relates to the following:

Code (CSharp):

1.         if (map == null || map.TerraMap2D == null) {
2.             enabled = false;
3.             throw new UnityException ("TerraMap has not been initialized properly");
4.         }

Any ideas guys?

 

TerraMap needs to be on the same gameObject as TerraMapGenerator.

 

Thanks Laurent.

In the demo scenes this is already the case:


This is what I get:



Cheers!

 

That's oddOdd, I just tried the scene in 534 and it runs. Grab the stacktrace of that error.

 

What's even weirder is that reimporting Terravol resolved the issue !? I don't know why I didn't do that in the first place haha.

I'm glad you guys are around to keep this asset alive, it looks brilliant. Can't wait to get working with it .

Cheers

 

Ah yes, you must be using unity 5.4
It is a great asset, much faster than anything out there. did you dig in the code? It's pretty good stuff.

 

Anyone still have the Documentation with this asset?

 

Hey, several found that the Google Docs link still works, e.g. https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/t...-in-your-terrains.177573/page-15#post-2749378
HTH, Rupert.

 

Is this compatible with the newest version of unity?
I am thinking of using this for a little open world fps survival game say 40klm2
Would I be able to do that with this?

 

It's no longer supported.
Sorry.

Some people (myself included) do still use it after many changes. It even works in unity 5.6. The biggest problem is that one must get a replacement triplanar shader since the original was binary and stopped working ages ago.

Sorry it's not better news.

 

Read the last few threads on pros and cons for general vibe of this thing.
The triplanar shader is the least of your worry.
For a 40km terrain you'll need to invest quite a bit of time adding block persistence and tuning the generator unless you plan on sculpting that much and that, I've never done, @Arkade may have.
If you must have voxels, wait and see if voxeland 5.0 ever shows up.

 

Yeah I would be able to sculpt a 40klm area as I have a buddy that likes that sort of thing.
I was thinking of using it with this asset also
Ultimate Survival.
To patch something together to play with friends.

 

Are there any paint height tools to make a flat road or something?

 

no

 

I'm thinking of buying your product.
Does this supports on mobile platform(ios/android)?

 

Is this asset no longer available? Is their a way to download it? I didnt buy it.

Cheers!
Xalo

 

Hello!

TerraVol no longer available on the store.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8131

What happened?

 

What a shame, it's such a fast voxel thing.

 

you think it's freeware now? his email is somewhere I'm sure

 

Unlikely. But I found his email here.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/search/page=1/sortby=popularity/query=publisher:3032
And sent him an email.