Disappearing Terrain

[Jonathan]

Hi All - looking for some guidance here....I have just re-opened a TGO I have been working on and my terrain has disappeared (I used one heightfield and a make river shader). I clicked on generate now and the terrain has totally altered so my scene is not what it was. Any ideas (I had autogenerate unchecked - don't know if that makes any difference?). I also (when previously rendering this scene) discovered that when rendering in 1290 x 1068, the image maps I have been using for rocks have not been rendered onto the rocks (fake rock shaders). The image map works fine in lower res renders but not in higher res. I did have a "script error" appear at the time it was rendering.

Any thoughts welcome!

Thanks, Jonathan.

[Henry Blewer]

Can you post the tgd file? Actuallly, you'd have to zip the whole project.

I would guess that the render camera and the image projection camera might have different image aspect ratios. This is just a guess...

[Jonathan]

Hi - here is the attached zip file containing the project plus the jpg for the rock used on the fake stone shaders. Regarding the render / camera settings, I use 1.7777 aspect ration on quick and full renders. The image map for the fake stone shader works on the quick render, and full render (640*380), but not when I move up to 1900 x 1080. And I still don't understand why, when re-opening the project, my terrain has disappeared. When I regernerated the terrain (no changes to any settings), the terrain was completely different! Thanks for your help. jonathan.

[jaf]

First, I would go to Heightfield generate 01 and turn "Auto generate" on. Or maybe you remember to generate the terrain each time?

[Jonathan]

Hi Jaf, tried it both ways and the terrain has completely changed

[jaf]

Have you tried moving your render camera higher.  It looked like it was "inside" some of your terrain geometry.  You can usually see that in the preview window -- pieces of terrain in the sky.

[bobbystahr]

I always make a note of the seed value in the Generate tab if I'm using a non default value which seems always to be 22328 so I can re-establish a scene that's gone nuts on me.. ...

[Jonathan]

Hi Jaf,

When I first created the terrain, the camera was above the terrain - the issue was that when I re-opened the project, the terrain had changed - it is possible as bobbystahr points out that I might have used a different seed, and it defaulted to the standard setting - something that needs addressing by Planetside, as all fields should be saved with the project - I am going to try again, changing the seed, but making a record of it. Thanks for giving it a try though. I will report back!

Jonathan

[Tangled-Universe]

Did you try creating a new (default) project, changing the seed value, saving the .tgd and the re-opening it?
I have never seen before that the seed value wasn't saved.

[Oshyan]

The seed value should always be saved with a TGD. If you can reproduce a problem where it does not save please let us know the exact steps you followed and we'll look into it.

- Oshyan

[Matt]

It might be Heightfield Make River that's at fault. I think it might have a random element that doesn't get saved. We've decided not to recommend using it, and it will become a hidden node in future versions.

If you do use it, save the result to a heightfield file (.ter)