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Title: Holes in Terrain - Was a Fix Ever Found
Post by: WAS on January 17, 2021, 02:31:31 PM
Was a fix ever found to help remedy these at render time? In some instances like in shadow, they kinda ruin the scene letting streaks of light in and stuff.
Title: Re: Holes in Terrain - Was a Fix Ever Found
Post by: Tangled-Universe on January 18, 2021, 01:07:36 PM
You can have a totally gap-free geo with "force all adges" enabled and the other 3 options disabled. Though you may not like disabling "fully adaptive" since that allows you to increase polygon size over distance.
I figured this out when exporting geo for an external project. There I set up a camera with orthographic view, thus fully adaptive not being important.
Another important finding was that with multi-threading you get many overlapping edges/vertices (can't remember which exactly) at bucket boundaries, thus I had to render the micro exporter images in single-threaded mode.
At least it gave me gap-free geo for export, but whether if this is useful for rendering a fully detailed scene with all the bells and whistles I doubt heavily.
Perhaps you can try enabled force all edges and increase displacement tolerance?
You have probably tried that already...
Title: Re: Holes in Terrain - Was a Fix Ever Found
Post by: WAS on January 18, 2021, 02:35:00 PM
Thanks so much! I was doing a bit of a cave thing and it was starting to look great, save for thr streaks of light from holes on the walls
😂