Monsoon opened this issue on Mar 19, 2010 · 165 posts
Daniel1705 posted Thu, 15 April 2010 at 7:34 AM
This thread is absolutely awesome. Eonite, everytime that I think you can't surprise us anymore you pull another trick out of your hat. I really admire you for your faboulous cloud techniques and now I guess we have a second area where you can showcase your talents with th efunction editor :- ).
I bought Terragen 2 at the beginning of the year because I was so frustrated with Vue's instability and the non-working displacement on high resolution terrains in Vue 8. I have to say it's really amazing what you can do with Terragen's displacement engine and I'd love to see Vue's function editor get used in a similar way.
So my question is: has anyone managed yet to displace a very high resolution terrain (4096x4096) properly without crashing? I can't displace anything beyond 512x512, not even 1024x1024 (haven't tried the most recent update, though). Displacing rocks or primitives is not an issue, this works quite well. But I want to displace terrains in order to create real overhangs and rock structures. The new terrain editor is not suitable for micro detail, just for some general shapes.
I do hope so much that someone will come up with a solution of displacing standard terrains as easily as primitives. After all Vue is meant to be a "natural 3D solution", so the development focus should be put on displacing natural 3D environments like terrains and not some low-poly primitive objects.