What's the proper way to import 3rd party created terrain into Gaia?

[DMVguy80]

Hello, thanks for reading my post.

 

My end goal is to be able to create terrain in another program (Atlas Terrain) and import it into Gaia for texturing. 

 

Here is what I did.

 

I created my terrain with Atlas Terrain. I then saved the terrain as a prefab and packaged it and its data as a Unity Package and saved it to my desktop.

 

I started Gaia and created a terrain.

 

I then deleted the Gaia created terrain, imported my Unity Package that contained my Atlas Terrain and data and nested the Atlas created terrain under the "Gaia Terrains" object.

 

Finally, I adjusted the x, y, z values of the transform of my Atlas Terrain to match those of the Gaia terrain that I created.

 

Believe it or not, everything mostly worked. I was able to texture the terrain perfectly using all of Gaia's tools. So, I was pretty happy at first.

 

But, when I tried to add and remove trees, that is when I realized that something was broken. Well, actually, I can add the trees just fine, but I can't clear them from my terrain. When I try to, I get the error below and Unity crashes. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I would really love to be able to seamlessly use both of these tools. Thank you.

 

MissingComponentException: There is no 'Terrain' attached to the "AtlasTerrain" game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a Terrain to the game object "AtlasTerrain". Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.
Gaia.TerrainHelper.ClearTreesOnSingleTerrain (UnityEngine.Terrain terrain, Gaia.Spawner spawner, Gaia.ClearSpawnFrom clearSpawnFrom) (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/Utils/TerrainHelper.cs:1245)
Gaia.TerrainHelper+<>c__DisplayClass31_0.<ClearSpawns>b__2 (UnityEngine.Terrain t) (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/Utils/TerrainHelper.cs:1199)
Gaia.TerrainHelper.ClearSpawns (Gaia.GaiaConstants+SpawnerResourceType resourceType, Gaia.ClearSpawnFor clearSpawnFor, Gaia.ClearSpawnFrom clearSpawnFrom, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] terrainNames, Gaia.Spawner spawner) (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/Utils/TerrainHelper.cs:1232)
Gaia.Spawner.ClearTrees (Gaia.ClearSpawnFor clearSpawnFor, Gaia.ClearSpawnFrom clearSpawnFrom, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] terrainNames) (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/SpawningSystem/Spawner.cs:5663)
Gaia.GaiaSessionManager.ExecuteClearSpawns (Gaia.GaiaOperation op, Gaia.Spawner spawner) (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/SessionSystem/GaiaSessionManager.cs:5292)
Gaia.GaiaSessionManager.ClearSpawns (Gaia.ClearOperationSettings clearOperationSettings, Gaia.SpawnerSettings spawnerSettings, System.Boolean executeNow, Gaia.Spawner spawner) (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/SessionSystem/GaiaSessionManager.cs:2454)
Gaia.BiomeControllerEditor.DrawClearControls (System.Boolean helpEnabled) (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/SpawningSystem/Editor/BiomeControllerEditor.cs:265)
PWCommon5.EditorUtils.Panel (UnityEngine.GUIContent panelLabel, System.String helpKey, System.Action`1[T] contentMethod, UnityEngine.GUIStyle labelStyle, System.Boolean ignoreGuiChange, System.Boolean defaultStatus, System.Boolean showVersionNumber, UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption[] options) (at <5e780e565d3b4b63836c767b4e8e9d7f>:0)
PWCommon5.EditorUtils.Panel (UnityEngine.GUIContent panelLabel, System.String helpKey, System.Action`1[T] contentMethod, System.Boolean ignoreGuiChange, System.Boolean defaultStatus, System.Boolean showVersionNumber, UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption[] options) (at <5e780e565d3b4b63836c767b4e8e9d7f>:0)
PWCommon5.EditorUtils.Panel (System.String nameKey, System.Action`1[T] contentMethod, System.Boolean defaultStatus, UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption[] options) (at <5e780e565d3b4b63836c767b4e8e9d7f>:0)
Gaia.BiomeControllerEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at Assets/Procedural Worlds/Gaia/Scripts/SpawningSystem/Editor/BiomeControllerEditor.cs:557)
UnityEditor.UIElements.InspectorElement+<>c__DisplayClass62_0.<CreateIMGUIInspectorFromEditor>b__0 () (at <15eb405d1d86410cb79965dfce1611d5>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)
 

 

 

[Bryan]

The best advice I can give on this topic would be see if you can bring in the atlas terrain as a game object or mesh. 
Then go to the Gaia Manager - Advanced Tab - Tools - Scanner. 
Then drag the object to the (drop area). 

Make sure nothing is above the terrain as it raycasts down.
What this does is create a .exr file. 

Then you will be able to create a terrain through the normal process of Gaia. 
Just make sure to use the Manual with stamper as the operation. 

Then you can click on the stamp browser - go to scanner exports. 
Stamp the terrain and now you have a working terrain through your normal way and its the same as the atlas terrain that you made just in Gaia / Unity fashion. 

Then you are good to proceed the normal process. 

[DMVguy80]

Thanks for the response Bryan. I actually found the solution messing around yesterday. It's actually quite simple. The only thing I had to do is make sure that I renamed my imported Atlas terrain to the same name as the Gaia generated terrain. I then deleted the Gaia generated terrain and everything worked perfectly. Hopefully my experience can prove useful to others seeking to combine Atlas and Gaia in their workflow.

[Bryan]

Ah perfect. 
Thank you for the info!