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terrain EXPORT height map error - dr_ron69 - 03-06-2023
Hi
I'm setting up a terrain using UDIMs, the colour map seems to work correctly, but the heightmap appears to have a seam between the tiles.
iv attached some images for you to look at
cheers
harv
ps the normal map is fine too
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - tyFlow - 03-06-2023
Can you post the file?
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - dr_ron69 - 03-06-2023
(03-06-2023, 09:28 PM)tyFlow Wrote: Can you post the file?
I'll have to post tomorrow now Tyson
Thanks
Ps, do you want all the maps too?
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - tyFlow - 03-07-2023
Sure
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - dr_ron69 - 03-07-2023
Hey Tyson
i can't upload any "7z" or "exr's" , is that normal?
i tried a ZIP file too, but then it said it was too large lol
iv attached Max file for now
the flow is disabled currently too
cheers
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - tyFlow - 03-07-2023
Ah, I think I may know the reason.
Disable 'normalize' in the height map export settings.
What that's doing is taking all the height values and finding their minimum/maximum and then converting the results into values ranging from 0-1. However, in a tiled setup this can mean that each tile will have a different normalization...one tile's min/max may be 0/50, another tile's min/max may be 2/47...if those mismatched min/max ranges are all converted to 0-1 values, the resulting extrusions/texmaps won't line up exactly.
If you disable that the resulting EXR values will be in real-world scale, but the tiles will line up.
In the future I may add a secondary option to 'normalize across all tiles' or something, so that normalization can be re-enabled but all tiles will be normalized together, preventing inter-tile differences.
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - tyFlow - 03-07-2023
Ok, next build will have the fix with the new combined normalization option. Here you can see the before/after:
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - dr_ron69 - 03-07-2023
great stuff Tyson , is this the same issue as the "banding" from my other post?
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - tyFlow - 03-07-2023
No, the banding is a separate issue. But it's also fixed in the next build.
RE: terrain EXPORT height map error - dr_ron69 - 03-07-2023
thanks Tyson , much appreciated