[Full Launch] Publish Games with Custom Terrain Materials and Performance Improvements

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Absolute killer update! Would we ever have better control over lighting though, such as shadows, shading and stuff? That’d take stuff to the next level.

Hang on, 62 mater- LuckyRainGG: Wait, 62 different custom materials? I thought the first announcement said 64? In our first announcement , we counted “Water” and “Air” in this number. Since they’re currently read-only, we’re correcting the total count of editable terrain materials to 62 to be more a

hahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaahahahahahha. nice update

can custom grass materials have different lengths from each other or do they share the terrain grass length?

All grass decorators share the same length currently

YES I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG the reduction in file size for my game is insane… holy

Just to clarify a bit on the size reduction, terrain is now ejected as an asset once published, the actual asset size doesn’t necessary decrease, but it no longer contribute to the overall publishing size limit (although it has its own limit of 250mb).

How scriptable is this stuff? I have a use case for having multiple different colours of terrain grass in close proximity (terrain itself not visible and layered under parts), but also random map generation so it can’t be set ahead of time. I already had made a script to change the terrain colours d

are TerrainRegions impacted by these improvements? as in loading & clearing terrain during runtime, for games where maps get changed between rounds.

You can check out the script usages here: [Early Access Program] Unlocking Massive Terrain With Up to 64 Custom Materials - #281 by ADJ_acent

This is cool! I’d like to use terrain more but I prefer using/the look of parts, is there any way to make it look a bit more blocky? image 1260×808 81.5 KB

The upcoming terrain improvements will roughly support this as showcased in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIAmVN6r2M image 1308×736 78.4 KB

ouuuuuu good update yet again!!! (Does this mean a bad one is on the horizon?! )

LuckyRainGG: Since they’re currently read-only Does this mean Custom Water will be coming soon?

bait and switch tactic; y’all always post a nice feature update after you completely put another important feature through the gutter (custom chats)

I would like to second this. I believe I posted on the original announcement, but it would be great to have custom liquids, like making semi-transparent lava with high viscosity. It was probably mentioned already, but still dropping this comment here

This could be a good next step because the current water material is so boring. I don’t wanna keep relying on EMs

@asimo3089 It’s your time to shine in jailbreak

TerrainRegions stored in the place are not ejected like the Terrain instance in the workspace is