Modular Terrain and the Mystery of the Disappearing Faces

[Wesley Williams]

After the removal of terrain, many have turned to modular terrain for landscape purposes. However, those creating their worlds with modular terrain have found themselves victim to an ongoing mystery; that of brick faces randomly disappearing into the mountainside, never to be seen again. Faces disappear both on modular terrain bricks as well as bricks being planted within the terrain, and the number of faces that disappear may vary.



It would be fantastic if someone could identify and fix this problem, as it is causing me many problems. Faces will disappear both on modular terrain bricks as well as bricks being planted inside the modter.

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[Extrude]

Glitchy culling.

[TheArmyGuy]

Oh wow I always thought I was the only one with this problem.

[Demian]

This happens because the bricks are actually cuboid even though some of them visually look like a ramp. You can't help it and I can't think of an easy way to fix it on Badspot's end either.

[Wesley Williams]

Well then my build will look like crap :(
I'm going to try loading the bricks from a save and see if that solves anything, because I noticed one brick was fixed after reloading.

[Mr.Noßody]

The only way that this problem could be fixed is by removing the culling on Mod Ter bricks.
I dont advise doing that though.

[Wesley Williams]

The only way that this problem could be fixed is by removing the culling on Mod Ter bricks.
I dont advise doing that though.

Why not? If there's anyway to fix this I'm down for it, this is killing my build :c

[Demian]

Why not? If there's anyway to fix this I'm down for it, this is killing my build :c

Removing face culling would make all brick sides visible even when covered by other bricks. It would practically triple the amount of faces to be rendered in your build. Performance would decrease a lot.

[Wesley Williams]

I see. Well then it's up to Badspot to help us I suppose.

[Mr.Noßody]

Ive gotten around this problem before by using smaller bricks around the broken area. The faces are hidden because most of the face on the bricks that have the error are covered up by the terrain bricks. By using smaller bricks there is less chance the faces will mess up.

So in that image, instead of using a 1x4x5 to complete the wall, use 5 1x4 bricks or some variation until minimal faceloss is achieved.

[Nasoa]

Or use a smaller equivalent to the terrain brick. They usually break when lots of bricks are on just one terrain brick, like Mr. Nobody said.

[Wesley Williams]

I'm going to try 4x4 modter in combination to 3x and 2x height bricks, as Mr. Nobody suggested. Thanks for the tip :)