I had hills; saved, reloaded, flat!

[tsuki]

I just started using terragen last week. I was working on a hilly terrain:

I saved it, then quit the program. A few minutes later I went back and loaded it, and it looked like this:

Panicking a bit, since I spent several hours on this ^^;;;;; How do I restore my terrain? And can I prevent this from happening in the future?

[Matt]

If you used the Heightfield Generate, you will need to press the "Generate Now" button again after loading the project. To make it generate automatically when you load the file, enable "Auto generate" on that node. This also makes it regenerate every time you change a parameter, so is not always useful. We plan to improve this in future versions.

Matt

[dandelO]

Reload the project and hit 'generate now' in the heightfield generate node. Your terrain won't appear if it's a heightfield generated one until you do this. After every 'terrain'(not shader) edit, click 'generate now' to see the newly edited terrain's shape.

If it isn't a HFG terrain, then I don't know what's up.

[dandelO]

  24 seconds, Matt! You're good! 

[tsuki]

That worked perfectly! Thank you both so much