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Easier way to paint the terrain using Microsplat

I'm sure many had that problem but it could be great to have a better workflow to paint textures on the terrain when you use Microsplat.

I have read many solutions so far like converting to Microsplat at the end, but this is very painful when you have a lot of chunks and modification in Microsplat's setting.
We also exchanged e-mails about this and proposed to add textures un parallel to the Microsplat ones, unfortunately I end up with a lot of textures un double (multiple biomes using the same textures) and I can't manage to make it work.

Would it be possible to find a way to allow both the custom splatmap (Microsplat) to work with the manual painting?

mick129, 19.09.2020, 17:14
Idea status: completed

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Penhoat, 23.09.2020, 17:03
Yes please! Like you mentioned, there's downsides to both methods. So ideally the node would just support this!
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Wraith, 23.09.2020, 17:48
The thing is not in node. It's the way MicroSplat works - to paint it takes terrainData splatmap and converts it to textures. So to make it work standard splats should be applied to terrain anyways. I can combine standard texture output with the MicroSplat one I guess. However it will still have the drawbacks of using these two nodes together - in performance and memory usage. Might be a bit more convenient to link one node except two, though.
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Michael, 23.09.2020, 21:20
I am not really an expert in the fiels but if a solution work at a certain performance cost, that would still be a huge win.
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Penhoat, 26.09.2020, 18:28
Sounds great! I love MM2, and think it's the best terrain creation tool out there. However MicroSplat is the best terrain shader out there, and ideal they'd work perfectly well together.
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Wraith, 14.12.2020, 11:33
Done for 2.1.0
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pure_luck, 12.02.2021, 17:20
Thanks! I am waiting for this update.

It could make texture-based spawner systems to work correctly with MM + MicroSplat, like BHS Crux which really doesn't have an alternative.
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