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neo83_gr
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Hello, I was working at our great new plugin, but I had a problem when using the sandbox tools. It's not a problem of the plugin, I just try to solve it.
I made a new terrain and sculpted it. But when I used displacement on it, the triangles were separated as you can see on the image. Any ideas? I tested all the "octane mesh" properties (true-false-smoothing) and also the material's rounded edges.
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neo83_gr wrote:Hello, I was working at our great new plugin, but I had a problem when using the sandbox tools. It's not a problem of the plugin, I just try to solve it.
I made a new terrain and sculpted it. But when I used displacement on it, the triangles were separated as you can see on the image. Any ideas? I tested all the "octane mesh" properties (true-false-smoothing) and also the material's rounded edges.
Hi neo83_gr,

Looks like the original mesh is not smoothed and each face is a separate mesh.
Try smoothing the surface in Sketchup (http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/114940)
If that won't help, could you please send me the scene?

Thank you
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Hello, I also tried what you proposed. As I said, the plugin is good , I just want to find a way to work around it.

Here is the very simple scene I made
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6296546/terrain.skp
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i dont use the sketchup plugin, but for displacement, it will create those edges where you have UV seams. Maybe that is the problem?
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yes, that's why I think this problem is not of the plugin and it's unsolvable too. But I'd like to know if anyone has a way to do a displaced terrain
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If you unwrap you terrain with one solid UV (no seams) and use a tileable displacement texture, it should work.
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ok I actually did it! with thrupaint plugin. It works perfect now. Thnx a lot!
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kavorka wrote:If you unwrap you terrain with one solid UV (no seams) and use a tileable displacement texture, it should work.
was about to say the same. ;)
neo83_gr wrote:ok I actually did it! with thrupaint plugin. It works perfect now. Thnx a lot!
That looks really nice mate. Well done.

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very nice done!
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