Interior vs. terrain

[Demian]

Why doesn't the Slate map use a terrain? Why invisible interior? Does it speed up the loading? Pros/cons?

[Ad Bot]

[tails]

How do you make invisible terrain?

[Demian]

Well yeah, but how about generally? I mean putting the wanted texture on the terrain rather than water. Why not? It would allow people to download the texture if the option is on.

[Marcem]

Terrain files are generally too much for a typical blockland host.  Even if it is just flat, it's still quite a bit to download.  It still has to for another texture.

[Demian]

Shouldn't the terrain file load faster if the terrain is completely flat? And I've never had trouble downloading terrain files, yeah it takes roughly 2 minutes, but it's not that much of a big deal. I'm just thinking that the pros here are bigger than the cons. Longer load times yes, but you can download the texture rather than seeing a horrible default water texture.

[Tom]

That's one reason why RTB content downloading will be nice.

[Demian]

Meh forgot that.