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Height map compression


Rotareneg

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The compression setting is completely unrelated to the resolution of the terrain, it just (potently) adds artifacts and/or smooths out details when set to higher levels of compression.

To quote the last thing I've read from ssnake about the new engine:

I'm not sure if that means something like going from 12.5 to 1 meter spacing which would be 156.25 times more samples or going from 12.5m spacing to 10 cm which would be 125 times the resolution.

Here's an example of 1 meter per sample elevation data (taken via aerial LIDAR) with a 12.5 meter grid:

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Features like the terraced fields, roads with ditches, and small gullies that are easily represented at 1 meter per sample are lost with the current 12.5 meter resolution.

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