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===== Terrain Utility =====
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This is a component that solves two main problems:
  * Bake terrain LOD textures
  * Fix unwanted terrain clipping

When you use Unity terrain in your project, you can bake the terrain layers into a LOD texture, which can then be used in Weatherade shaders to eliminate tiling artifacts over long distances.

This component also can fix the terrain patches clipping issue, when using the [[weatherade_manual:snow_coverage_instance:global_surface_settings?#displacement|Displacement]] feature.

To use this component, simply add it to the terrain game object.

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==== Baking ====
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You can bake the textures and assing them to the terrain material from this section. \\
It bakes the textures in the following way:
  * Albedo - <color white/#e04a4a>⠀R⠀</color> <color white/#5ec24c>⠀G⠀</color> <color white/#4c83c2>⠀B⠀</color>  - Smoothness - <color white/black>⠀A⠀</color> 
  * Normal - <color white/#e04a4a>⠀R⠀</color> <color white/#5ec24c>⠀G⠀</color> <color white/#4c83c2>⠀B⠀</color> 

Baked textures are saved in the same folder as the current terrain material, with the prefixes _AlbedoLOD and NormalLOD added to them.

=== Tiling Multiplier ===
A uniform tiling multiplier for the terrain textures, while baking process. Use values lower than 1 to scale up all textures of the terrain layers, so less tiling will be noticable over long distances.

=== Texture Resolution ===
Resolution of the LOD textures.

=== LOD Albedo ===
Not editable field, just to easily find the baked texture. The Re-assign button to the right allows to force assign the texture to the terrain material if its reference was lost for some reason.

=== LOD Normal ===
Works the same as [[weatherade_manual:additional_components:terrain_utility?#lod_albedo|LOD Albedo]].

=== Bake ===
Press this button to bake the textures for this terrain.

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==== Clipping Fix ====
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=== Bounds Multiplier ===
Terrain patch bounds multiplier. Increase this value if you are using the [[weatherade_manual:snow_coverage_instance:global_surface_settings?#displacement|Displacement]] feature in terrain material to prevent unwanted culling of terrain patches.