Cutting terrain into chunks

I need to cut up my terrain into chunks and bake normal map in such a way so seams don’t show. Is it there same as generating Tiled Terrain? I have Standard version. Would I have to upgrade or is there a way to make it with Standard version? Thanks.

Hi there,

Yes, this is exactly what the Tiling feature of the Pro Edition does.

You certainly can emulate this in the Standard, its just a fair bit of work and probably not worth it unless its on a small (couple tiles in each direction) terrain. Basic process would be:

  1. Create your final output at full resolution
  2. Create a second world file that loads in that final output
    a) set the render extents to a smaller square (ex: bottom 1/4 of the area)
    b) output that area to a new file on disk, ex: output_tile_0_0.png
    c) repeat for all the other areas

I see. Yeah, probably not worth messing like that with my terrain. I need ~50+ chunks.

What’s the cost of upgrading from Standard to Pro?

The upgrade price from Standard to Pro is simply the price difference between them. You can upgrade here:

http://www.world-machine.com/download.php?page=upgrade