Hello,
First thanks a lot for the new multi-threaded populator, the difference is really huge.
I just wondering if something can be done when you are populating a very large terrain, lets say 8*8 km.
If I undestand right, terragen is populating the terrain into 2 steps :
1) sampling the terrain accroding to the populator settings (spacing, orientation)
2) Reading the density shader to decide if instances are visible or not.
Am I right ?
If yes, it would be really helpfull if we could tweak the density shader without loosing the saved cache.
For the moment we have to hit the populate button if we want to see any change made is the density change, meaning that cache is lost. Despite the mutli-threading, sampling a large terrain with a really smal spacing can still be huge process.
In other word it would be handy if the 'populate now' can still read the cache (actually populate now will turn off instance caching), and only update the visibilty of the instances according to the change made in the density shader.
I'm not sure I'm very clear here
It would save a lot of time, especially when you want to mix different grass patches for example, because they can all share the same position/orientation cache. Only density will change.
