Terrain Question: Increasing Detail Distance over 250

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Inside Terrain Settings, I am trying to increase the Detail Distance over 250, so my grass details will be displayed from a greater distance. How can I do that?

I've tried finding the "Terrain" script to change the code, but couldn't find it.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much.

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Answer by duck · Mar 09, 2010 at 05:24 PM

The variable you need is terrain.detailObjectDistance

(where 'terrain' is a reference to the terrain script on the terrain object). A common way to get this reference is to use Terrain.activeTerrain, or to create a public variable of type Terrain, and drag in a reference to the terrain into that variable slot in the editor.

That variable, and a number of others that you might be interested in (such as treeDistance and treeBillboardDistance) are listed on the Terrain Page in the scripting reference.

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Chuckler · Oct 04, 2013 at 05:07 PM 0

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It doesnt seem to be working for me at the moment... I am trying to have the detail grass rendered at > 250..! I attached a new script to the Terrain and in the script added

Terrain.activeTerrain.basemapDistance = 5000; Terrain.activeTerrain.detailObjectDistance = 5000;

seems to work however if i set it to a lower setting, like distance 11...nothing shows haha, so i dunno...i thought it might be the camera but im not certain yet... Anything i can do here? hmm

sandhillceltic · Mar 02, 2014 at 11:37 PM 0

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If you want the detail distance to be the same all the time, just update it every frame. It doesn't require that much computer power.

 var distance = 5000;
 
 
 function Update () {
     Terrain.activeTerrain.detailObjectDistance = distance;
 }

BA$$anonymous$$! solved the problem...

[works as of $$anonymous$$arch 2014]

amia · Oct 20, 2015 at 12:29 PM 0

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But my tree distant not activity = 5000

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Answer by David-Lindsay · Oct 15, 2013 at 03:56 AM

This doesn't work anymore. Unity automatically resets the terrain in the next frame immediately after you make a change.

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Chuckler · Oct 15, 2013 at 06:21 AM 0

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that explains it...thanks! so much Z fighting with the terrain as well

Mecasapien · Apr 04, 2018 at 05:46 AM 0

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Im raging with unity terrain system, I need to set the detail distance to way further than 250, why the editor dont allow us this? it dont have any workaround? I can`t believe it

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Answer by Althizar · Jul 13, 2021 at 03:42 PM

Hello community, I have tried this with the Fixed Update and it seems to keep the detail distance set to what I like it to. Version 2020.3.6.

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