big single terrain texture?

[beo6]

Hello, I wanted to ask if it is possible to use a single big texture for terrain. I know we can paint with multiple texture layers in the editor, but I want to import a big texture already.

 

Isn't the painted texture already build into a single megatexture? Can we use our own?

[gamecreator]

Out of curiosity, what goes wrong if you import a large texture and try to use it?

[beo6]

well. the question is, how am i supposed to apply that texture?

Painting it would be hard because of the large terrain.

[gamedeviancy]

If you start with an empty terrain and just use 1 texture, by double clicking on Layer 1 -> Diffuse, it should cover the entire terrain piece.

 

[beo6]

thanks. didn´t knew about doubleclicking.

 

However it does not work. the texture is just tiled million times, and i can´t scale it big enough. (10 is maximum scale)

I guess the transparent transition between multiple texture sizes must be disabled for that kind of big texture too.

[cassius]

if your texture is grass or dirt or snow it should just "fill" the whole terrain smoothly without seams.

[beo6]

It will not be a tileable texture. I am just interested in using real map data.

Importing a height map is no real problem. But applying satellite imagery on it looks impossible with the current system.

[shadmar]

It's possible if you are willing to edit your clipmap.shader.

[beo6]

Thanks shadmar.

I Will have a look at the shaders then. Not sure that I will be able to modify them though.

[shadmar]

256x256 use scale 0.25

1024x1024 use scale 0.5

2048x2048 use scale 1.0

4096x4096 use scale 2.0

clipmap.zip

[beo6]

Thank you a lot Shadmar. This looks cool