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Size limit for Nature Terrain Generator?

Posted By TimothyMasters 4 Years Ago
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The more I use Nature Terrain Generator, the more I realize that it's an incredible, wonderful tool that was not quite ready for release.  I'll put aside for the the issue that when morphing tiles it is ridiculously easy for the tiled surface to suffer terrible tears where they should have remained connected.  It's annoying having to scan every seam from every angle just to make sure there are no tears, and then do it again after fixing the tears to make sure the fix did not open a new tear.
Anyhow, my real issue involves generating large terrains.  I need a 20x20 surface, which is just 80 meters on a side, not excessively large for an area for character exploration.  My generation ran for four hours before I gave up and killed it.  I do wish there were a progress bar!  So I figured I'd just do four 10x10 surfaces and stitch them together.  I was happy when my first 10x10 took just 8 minutes to generate.  I slid it 4000 units left to get it out of the way and then tried to generate a second 10x10.  An hour later it was still humming away, and when I clicked on the screen to see if it was still alive (Windows called it unresponsive), iClone just vanished, a total crash.

So, is there an upper limit?  Is it illegal to generate a second terrain when there is already one in the project?  Is this just yet another NTG bug?  Do you suppose the developer has any plans for fixing this highly promising program?  This is so frustrating!

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Forum Post Size limit for Nature Terrain Generator? By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post I'm no expert on it but first things first. First of all, make sure... By Kelleytoons ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Thanks for all that advice. I guess you are saying it's more likely a... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Thanks for all that advice. I guess you are saying it's more likely a... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post I did some work with the Nature Terrain Generator. The best size for... By pinguintje ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Arie - Thanks for that detailed response! I did what you did and got... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Arie - Thanks for that detailed response! I did what you did and got... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post If you have it working that's fine. What I was talking about is if... By Kelleytoons ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post I think you also selected the box (Group) when you converted the... By pinguintje ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post I did accidentally select the Group once and saw that weird result,... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post I think it's not an iClone bug. The conversion of 100 planes from prop... By pinguintje ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Arie - Have you really made something that large work? I've tried... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Hello TimothyMasters, something is wrong with you. Here... By Postfrosch ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Thanks for doing that. Wow, how discouraging. Both of my computers... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post @TimothyMasters You see, it works. The last thing you can try is:... By pinguintje ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post I haven't found the exact cutoff, but I know that everything works... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Kellytoons - Well, my 'toy problem' approach worked, but as soon as I... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Hi Timothy, Try cleaning out your temp files. Start by quiting all... By Rampa ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Thanks! I'm going to try that now, and I'll let you know how it goes.... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Cleaning your folder out is unlikely to be the problem. As I said... By Kelleytoons ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post That's my opinion as well, but unfortunately it's not the solution... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post I appear to have found a great solution to my problem of converting... By TimothyMasters ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post Exactly and it betrays the bug/problem with iClone - multiple objects... By Kelleytoons ( 4 Years Ago )



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