{"id":4241,"date":"2016-11-20T23:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2016-12-04T23:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T23:17:29","slug":"p-172-unitp0-p-172-part-48-space-exploration-engine-terrain-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-172-unitp0-p-172-part-48-space-exploration-engine-terrain-textures\/","title":{"rendered":"P0-P-172: Part 48: Space Exploration Engine Terrain Textures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have, with very little effort, succeeded in adding terrain textures to the Space Exploration Engine!<\/p>\n

I was quite concerned about this, and in fact, I had almost decided to postpone it to MS2, since I thought it would be difficult, but in actual fact most of the support code is there already. The terrain is made using a vertex color shader in unity, and I just needed to change that to use a conventional material (all of this was done in the editor!) and I could add textures.<\/p>\n

There are a few problems yet, such as the fact that I can only add one material to the entire terrain, and once I update that, the entire terrain changes at once. I believe I can fix this fairly easily by adding an array of materials\u00a0to the terrain class where currently there is an array of colours.<\/p>\n

The terrain texures also look quite poor up close, and I am having some issues getting normal maps, etc, to look good, but this may just require some better quality art, I am using the art that came with the standard assets package for the moment.<\/p>\n

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I have, with very little effort, succeeded in adding terrain textures to the Space Exploration Engine! I was quite concerned about this, and in fact, I had almost decided to postpone it to MS2, since I thought it would be difficult, but in actual fact most of the support code is there already. The terrain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astral-realms","category-p-0","category-software-and-games","category-spiritus-astrum","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4344,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}