How much Terrain is too much?

mew903 · August 16, 2020, 9:20am

This question goes out to the terrain developers: how much is too much? Has anyone done any stress tests with the new smooth terrain? I’m getting into using terrain and I have a 2000x250x2000 map of mountainous terrain that runs pretty smoothly, and it’d be cool to see how large I could make it without effecting performance too much

sleitnick · August 16, 2020, 2:08pm

This is kinda hard to say, because it will probably be different per player’s computer. Ideally with very large terrain, you could use StreamingEnabled and that would help performance.

Ie_fishe · August 16, 2020, 2:19pm

Id say if your making like 4 extra large biomes then thats too much

ButterrDev · August 16, 2020, 2:19pm

I’m currently working on a terrain sized 12,000x6,000 and I don’t experience any lag.
But my client memory usage was a little over 1,000mb.

Example of the terrain (To show that it's not complately flat).