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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: tsuki on October 23, 2008, 08:05:42 PM

Title: I had hills; saved, reloaded, flat!
Post by: tsuki on October 23, 2008, 08:05:42 PM
I just started using terragen last week. I was working on a hilly terrain: (http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x289/EternalMoonPrincess/last.png)

I saved it, then quit the program. A few minutes later I went back and loaded it, and it looked like this: (http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x289/EternalMoonPrincess/aftersave.png)

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?
Title: Re: I had hills; saved, reloaded, flat!
Post by: Matt on October 23, 2008, 08:19:14 PM
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
Title: Re: I had hills; saved, reloaded, flat!
Post by: dandelO on October 23, 2008, 08:19:38 PM
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.
Title: Re: I had hills; saved, reloaded, flat!
Post by: dandelO on October 23, 2008, 08:20:52 PM
 :D 24 seconds, Matt! You're good!  :D
Title: Re: I had hills; saved, reloaded, flat!
Post by: tsuki on October 23, 2008, 08:21:10 PM
That worked perfectly! Thank you both so much :)