Hello,
I made a system on which you can create planets with lands & oceans. I wanted to know if it was possible to modify some terrain materials (by keeping the default texture) without having to modify the part material? Let me explain:
What I currently have
This is what I currently have with standard terrain:
As you can see, the more I go down, the browner the grass is (because it becomes dirt). That is because terrain has 3 possible faces:
- Top face,
- Side face,
- Bottom face.
On the grass material, the top face will correspond to green grass, and the side/bottom faces will correspond to dirt:
What I want to achieve
I simply want ALL FACES of the terrain to be grass!
This can be done using MaterialVariants & TerrainDetails like displayed below:
Hierarchy in MaterialService
Grass property of MaterialService
As you can see, I am using a MaterialVariant which also contains TerrainDetails to modify how terrain behaves.
I took grass files from %LocalAppData%\Roblox\Versions\<CurrentVersion>\PlatformContent\pc\textures\grass. I found 3 files there:
- diffuse.dds,
- normal.dds,
- reflection.dds
(There is a “normaldetail.dds” file, however I did not use it)
Here are the 3 files in order
I put the diffuse in the ColorMap channel of the MaterialVariant, the normal in the NormalMap channel, and the reflection in the RoughnessMap (I don’t quite know where to put it, I am not a texturing expert).
This is the result for parts with Grass material:
As you can see, it’s janky.
Now, I wanted to add textures for the TERRAIN grass material, as those are different from PARTS materials. I went into %LocalAppData%\Roblox\Versions\<CurrentVersion>\PlatformContent\pc\terrain but only to find out that diffuses, normals & reflections were made on a grid…:
The diffuse is even pink, which makes it unusable the way I intend to use it. Without having the ability to implement those, here is the grass material on terrain:
It is shiny and not implementable.
Inquiries
Would you be able to help me out with this?
Would I be able to ONLY override terrain materials WITHOUT HAVING TO OVERRIDE part materials?
Thanks for having read,
@Varonex_0
