Other Settings

There are a number of options under the Terrain Settings button in the Terrain Inspector.

Base Terrain

• Pixel Error controls the amount of allowable errors in the display of Terrain Geometry. This is essentially a geometry LOD setting; the higher the value, the less dense terrain geometry will be.
• Base Map Dist.: The distance that Terrain Textures will be displayed in high-resolution. After this distance, a low-resolution composited texture will be displayed.
• Cast Shadows: Should terrain cast shadows?

Material slot allows assigning a custom material for the terrain. The material should be using a shader that is capable of rendering terrain, for example Nature/Terrain/Diffuse (this shader is used if no material is assigned) or Nature/Terrain/Bumped Specular.

Tree & Detail Settings

• Draw: if enabled, all trees, grass, and detail meshes will be drawn.
• Detail Distance distance from the camera that details will stop being displayed.
• Tree Distance: distance from the camera that trees will stop being displayed. The higher this is, the further-distance trees can be seen.
• Billboard Start: distance from the camera that trees will start appearing as Billboards instead of Meshes.
• Fade Length: total distance delta that trees will use to transition from Billboard orientation to Mesh orientation.
• Max Mesh Trees: total number of allowed mesh trees to be capped in the Terrain.

Wind Settings

• Speed: the speed that wind blows through grass.
• Size: the areas of grass that are affected by wind all at once.
• Bending: amount that grass will bend due to wind.
• Grass Tint: overall tint amount for all Grass and Detail Meshes.

Page last updated: 2012-11-16