Future: Terrain Export Including Texture

[rcallicotte]

Is there a plan to someday have a simple means of exporting terrain along with its texture(s)?

[cyphyr]

I would have thought it would be a relatively script, the tools are already there, its just a matter of choosing up a set of terrain coordinates and using those same coordinates to run an orthographic camera so its centered above the terrain and a bit of cleaver math to put the sun directly overhead. Once the sdk is released I would have thought it would not be to hard to do.
Richard

[Oshyan]

Eventually texture export along with terrain may be possible, but texture detail is even more demanding than terrain geometry detail in terms of what is needed to achieve realistic results. The texture export would be largely useless without an extremely high resolution texture, which would of course take up massive amounts of memory in other applications. So the fundamental value of procedural textures is going to make this an unattractive prospect most of the time. Nonetheless as part of broadened import/export support it will probably be available in some form in the future.

- Oshyan

[rcallicotte]

I understand about the memory limitations.  I'll probably look at other ways in the meantime.