Update to our Terrain Tools

[absentdenik (dauser)]

Awesome update.

[lceyDex (Real_IceyDev)]

I have been looking forward to this for a long time. Thank you to whoever made this possible

[Dev_Ryan]

OMG THE SMOOTH TOOL IS NOT LAGGY ANYMORE?! THANK YOU!!!

[SubtotalAnt8185]

All of this but they still didn’t fix the numerous physics problems and memory problems with terrain.

Terrain that is completely filled should take up less memory than partially filled terrain, but nope. The vertices are also there as well on seemingly flat terrain.

However, regarding this update, it’s a step in the right direction. Although we’ll never get the performance-light voxel terrain back, this makes smooth terrain even easier to work with.

[GamingLamaWasTaken (GamingLama)]

Huge improvement! but when will “realistic grass” get an update? i feel like its still too simple for today’s standards.

[Y0utube_Dino (DevDino)]

Thanks alot to the team at Roblox!

[g_rimblo (jordan)]

Great changes for the terrain tools!

[MisterV1nce (MisterVince)]

This really does help out a lot of developers who use the terrain tools, including myself! I am excited to see some additional improvements to the terrain tools in the future!

[itsDenDenn (Den)]

Love to see Smooth Tool finally actually smoothing the terrain instead of generating weird spots!

[4avke]

A very welcome update - I would definitely like to see more customization around the grass terrain decoration, being able to change the texture, size and thickness of the 3D grass material would be a huge step forward in further customizing the look of terrain.

[Daw588]

At this point it would be wise to just add foliage support.

[12mrcool (NorthernCanuck)]

Is is a much needed upgrade, as someone who likes working with terrain especially in my main project and trying to get it to look as good as i can, this helps a lot.

Would be nice to be able to have custom grass or change the hight etc, even just a grass painter would be nice because some places you might want the taller grass, while some areas have none but still have the grass texture.

[Reditect]

@heedicalking

. Filled terrain takes up an insane amount of memory compared to hollowed terrain (which still takes up way more than it should).

This may or may not be false. Hollow terrain has more ‘visible’ sides and thus is more performance intensive, from what I’ve found.

Could be wrong though. I’m getting different answers from researching it.

[TheEldritchDreamer]

Terrain Editor: Suggestions, changes and improvements

To add onto this, I have a few additional suggestions that would help a bunch: Height Tool By dragging on existing terrain, this tool should smoothly ‘extrude’ the terrain up or down in a given range. It’d be awesome if the ‘curve’, which determines the intensity, is customizable. Example: [image] Example of the customizable curve: [image] Material Height Presets It’d be sweet to have an optional setting that allows you to set a material for certain heights. For example: 0 - 99 studs ab…

The moment you said that I was like ‘I recall a topic with decent suggestions’! Some good ideas were posted there, I think! Would love to see these improvements.

[SwitchedDreams]

Can’t wait for more terrain tool updates!

[DanieIAntonucci (Rem_3dy)]

Very good update, looking forward to improving more terrain related stuff!

[kalet14 (moririririri)]

Very good update! It would also be very helpful if we got the option to change the scales and strength of the terrain tools to more than 1 as it’s currently hard to make terrain when the scaling tools are really slow!

[ZElectricitE]

This was well needed. This will make terrain easier to make. These new updates make the terrain editor so much smoother and less stressful to use.

[RickleSandwich (PickleSandwich)]

Thanks for the explanation. We’ve noted your alpha brush request and will prioritize it within our team.

[kyjikyji (quit)]

That has nothing to due with the amount of terrain voxels.