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Terrain Plane

The Terrain Plane is a heavily modified model that consists of 225 bones, arranged in a 15x15 lattice, allowing users to create terrains. It is packaged in the form of a mod, to take advantage of a far more powerful material manipulation system.

Features
Terrain Plane
  • 15x15 (225) bone lattice for custom terrain creation.
  • Supports Animated BaseTextures, Bumpmaps and Detail Textures.
  • 1 skin, with 18 remappable sliders to have absolute control over its materials.

Terrain Plane Deluxe
There is a paid version of the terrain plane called the Terrain Plane Deluxe, which comes with many advanced features that make using the terrain plane far easier, more versatile, with even higher quality bar:

  • Includes All features of the Terrain Plane
  • 3 skins each supporting different shaders: Vertex Lit Generic, Unlit Generic and Refract.
  • Each skin has two materials, stacked to support PBR.
  • 71 total sliders for complete control of materials
  • Supports Animated BaseTextures, Bumpmaps, Detail textures.
  • 69 4k Authored textures with simulated roughness and ability to do Virtual Texture Blending.
  • 8 Terrain Presets which use real displacement data, for instant terrain generation and real-time manipulation of the lattice, as well as an animated water preset.

Novel Features

Virtual Texture Blending
With the Terrain Plane Deluxe, you can simulate a feature from Unreal Engine called Virtual Texture Blending, blending two or more terrain types together in a seamless manner.



Real Displacement Data
Terrain Presets on the Terrain Plane Deluxe use real displacement data (made possible by a procedure developed in early 2024 at Fluid Script Studios) for realistic mountains, hills, canyons, valleys, slopes and other terrain deformations.

Functioning Transformation Sliders
UV transformations with sliders actually function on this model, Giving control over the UVs for a huge quality of life improvement for scene-building.

Material Layering Systems
The design of this model is based on a set of system workflow principles called Material Layering Systems: mixing and matching textures to create layers of detail. With the Terrain Plane Deluxe, the total number of combinations you can make with these textures sit between 25 million and 10^28 (that's 10 followed by 28 zeros) Because of this, we effectively have gazillions of unique textures (along with the ability to arbitrarily scale them) with only a small, very high quality library. We let this combination space work for us, massively reducing consumed memory.

Installation
Visit the linked page, or watch the attached video for how to install. It's simple: you install it as if it were like any other game mod. Drag the "fluidscriptstudios_tools" folder into your directory. All of our tools can be installed into the same directory, so if you download multiple tools, then when prompted to Replace select yes replace. Add the mod folder to your gameinfo.txt, and you'll find the session in the elements folder of this mod.
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Landscape Valley, Modern House, Terrain Plane Deluxe, Modern Cafe

Credits
Design and Concept by Nightmare Court Pictures
Model Constructed by Dinomar
Model Fixes by LenoAx

Includes:
props_train\aluminium_cabinet_01.mdl
16 Comments
mountaindewdz 24 Oct, 2024 @ 12:18pm 
MY P C C C
Xkore000 23 Oct, 2024 @ 9:40am 
this is some blender level tech for SFM
Fluid Script Studios  [author] 22 Oct, 2024 @ 7:32pm 
Hey @Jonathan @saz

The free version is a plane with 225 bones arranged in a lattice to make terrains. It also comes with 17 sliders to have total control of the materials you place onto them.

The Enhanced and Deluxe are super buffed up versions of this model. There's so many features and things it can do, that I can't list them all in a small paragraph, but I made a video that covers as many of those features as I could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdcqWzxEB8

To put it short : The Deluxe takes the scene-building process which could have otherwise taken days or weeks even, to only a few minutes. The authored 4k textures that come with the deluxe allow you to emulate virtual blend texturing, which lets you explore a huge space of terrain types, at a quality level that matches well other modern engines like Unreal.

There's a character limit on Steam comments, so if you want, I can elaborate far deeper on the difference if you join our discord (linked in the description)

Cheers
saz 22 Oct, 2024 @ 3:52pm 
What Does The Free Version Do?
Jonathan 22 Oct, 2024 @ 3:51pm 
So uh, out of curiosity, what's the difference between the free terrain and the enhanced/deluxe ones?
Fluid Script Studios  [author] 22 Oct, 2024 @ 1:10pm 
Hey @John Warhammer thanks

The model is a mod, like how TF2 or HL2 are mods. you just drag and drop it into your mod folder like you would installing other games (and edit the gameinfo.txt)

There's several reasons why these tools are mods. For one, there's gonna be plenty of tools in the future, and this places all of those tools in a single neat place...and makes those tools which can be rather complicated in nature, easier to install.

Another reason: is that sliders aren't intrinsic to the model, so if you were to load the model in the model browser rather than as a session or as a shot element it will still appear still, but just without any sliders.

Btw if you have any questions i can just walk you through it if you need. join the discord server. im around.
△ ARI △ 22 Oct, 2024 @ 12:17pm 
btw are the lights setting private??
John Warhammer 22 Oct, 2024 @ 11:18am 
Im too dumb to be able to follow the tutorial why not just put the free version dl by the sub button ?
But let's be honest this shit is dope dude
R3DREVO 21 Oct, 2024 @ 3:21pm 
crazy
ymbpa5475 21 Oct, 2024 @ 2:04pm 
P2P content comes to the workshop baby!