Terrain not shaded.

[Tassos Stamadianos]

Hello,

I have some fairly large terrain in the editor (scaled 10x10x10), and I cannot get the scene to light up properly. A directional light only lights a small portion of the scene. I tried playing with the light's parameters, but to no avail. Is this a bug or am I incorrectly creating terrain?

[Tassos Stamadianos]

Okay, so I made the terrain via script, and I'm experiencing the same problem -- past a certain point, no light is cast on the terrain. I guess it's not an editor issue then. Is the terrain not supposed to exceed a certain size?

[Lasse Öörni]

If you have a zone component for the ambient light & fog control, make sure its bounding box parameters are large enough to contain the whole terrain. Terrain patches which are outside are put into the Renderer's default zone, which has a black fog at quite close distance.

[Tassos Stamadianos]

Ah, that makes sense. However, I do not have a zone component. Is there a default zone assumed if no zone is provided?

[Lasse Öörni]

Yes. In code you can get it with Renderer::GetDefaultZone() and in the editor it's the one whose fog settings etc. you can edit in the "Editor preferences" window.