I was wondering if the was any way to get terrain to be more realistic. while 
this is fine and all, it’s not really something you’d see in a high-quality game. If you know of a better way to do terrain, pls let me know! thx!
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You could try using the Material Service to override terrain materials. Perhaps by using textures that are more in line with your experience you could achieve an overall higher quality.
If you’d want to have high-quality terrain there’s multiple ways to do it although I’d suggest just sticking with Roblox’s terrain.
Custom Terrain You can use a part, put bones in it and move the bones accordingly to shape your custom terrain and then customize it with whatever you want on it.
Custom Textures MaterialService allows for custom textures on your terrain and I’d highly recommend using this method!
If you are referring to the shape of the terrain, and not the materials, then maybe heightmaps are what you need. You can import real world terrain data, or heightmaps generated from various software.
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Realism is usually about things making sense in nature.
With that in mind, you can:
-Make the grass less neon/saturated. You can edit terrain colors in the properties of the terrain object. The dirt should be less saturated too.
-Add some sort of atmospheric effect. Ever noticed that when you look at something really far away it’s fuzzy and gray? You can imitate this in the lighting settings of your game.
-Make things smoother. Unless you’re making a cliff, you shouldn’t have any dramatic changes in elevation or sharp angles.
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I’ve tried material service but was unable to find out how to retexture terrain. could you explain how?
Same, I looked on the Announcements post, and the “Terrain Overrides” category is not there for me…
anyone know how to fix this? XD
Oh yeah, did some research, and it turns out Terrain Overrides are disabled for maintenance. My best guess is that it’ll be back by next week, maybe this weekend if we’re lucky.
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Wouldn’t using Material Service be pointless since it doesn’t show up in-game?
Its a Beta…
It’s not gonna be in game…