Game Development Reference
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Now that we have generated a heightmap and exported it to an image, we can actually use
it as a base in Terrain Editor. The process is similar to the one where we created a terrain
After creating a new scene (by all means, we can use an existing scene as well) and open-
ing it, we can right-click on the main node in the
SceneExplorer
window and select
Add
Spatial..
and then select
Terrain..
.
It's important that we select the same total size as that of the pixels of our image. Then, in
the
Heightmap
screen, we choose
Image Based
from the
HeightMap
drop-down menu
and select our image.
The
Roughness
slider will define how much the heightmap will be smoothed out before it
is added. A higher smoothness will remove finer details, and this is a must if we want to
have characters that will run or drive on top of it.
The
Height Scale
option will define the maximum altitude that the heightmap can have and
scale it accordingly.
