Some questions/feedback/suggestions.
While the landscape demo is well done and I picked up a few tricks, I was kind of disappointed it did not take advantage of Tiled Landscapes/World Composition. Tweaking a single landscape is easy enough, though the workflow changes when working with tiles. It feels tedious when you need to tweak something when it involves a ton of tiles. You can’t move the tiled landscape vertically like you can with a single landscape, etc.
I know Lyons Den has come up with an excellent tutorial/wiki page on World Composition, but I am wondering what your your internal workflow look like when working with Tiles and World Machine settings? Do you have an optimal tile size/settings? Obviously getting sense of scale right is important for VR.
I mentioned a while back: "*Something about the entire streaming process feels very off to me, entire terrain tiles loading at once instead of smaller sections, etc. Wouldn’t mind more control over landscape LOD distance, so that settings are progressively dialed down based on certain distances set by the user or optimized via system performance dynamically. Not to mention defining “Hero” areas like giant mountains in the vast distance. Right now tiled terrains all share the same setting as a proxy of the first tile imported.
Seems like things should be more automated by distance instead of manually setup, like it would be a much shorter list of things to setup if you started with a more global streaming standard and then setup the special cases.* "
Perhaps that would be setup via blueprint?
It would be cool if the tiled import settings had a place to simply enter what world machine settings you used, as well as options when reimporting tiles. Right now it seems if you want to change settings you have to start over with the import and delete the previous levels.
On the Roadmap, does the Large World Coordinate system refer to Double Precision Coordinates? Would that solve the limit on physics without World Origin Rebasing and Multiplayer limits(without a custom server solution), etc?
My ideal is to pull off something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZSGRk0jFic
Perhaps something as crazy as this later on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yrcEUO7TC28#t=345
or at least document the current way
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