TerrainDetail

Not yet Class Physics

Determines appearance of a certain terrain face direction.

Not implemented yet

This class exists in the current Roblox API but is not implemented in Nova yet. Scripts that reference it will fail at runtime.

0 Nova members · 20 modern Roblox members not implemented yet

Description

TerrainDetail has to be a child of a MaterialVariant object. The MaterialVariant.BaseMaterial property of the parent MaterialVariant object need to be one of the supported terrain Material, for example, it can be Basalt but not Plastic.

Terrain renders with different textures for it's top(+y), bottom(-y), and side(horizontal to y axis) faces. If a MaterialVariant has no TerrainDetail children, all faces are rendered as MaterialVariant specified. At most 3 TerrainDetail objects can be added to MaterialVariant, one for each face. TerrainDetail overrides the terrain appearance of a certain face.

For example, it can achieve this kind of effect: the top surface of Grass has lots of grass. On side surfaces, there are less grass. On bottom surfaces there are no grass.

Inheritance

Object → Instance → TerrainDetail

Properties

Member	Signature	Summary
ColorMap	ColorMap: ContentId	Determines the color of the surface.
ColorMapContent	ColorMapContent: Content	Determines the color of the surface. Only supports asset URIs as textures.
EmissiveMaskContent	EmissiveMaskContent: Content	Determines the emissivity across the surface.
EmissiveStrength	EmissiveStrength: float	Determines the strength of emissive contribution.
EmissiveTint	EmissiveTint: Color3	Determines the tinting color for emissive contribution.
Face	Face: TerrainFace	The face this TerrainDetail overrides.
MaterialPattern	MaterialPattern: MaterialPattern	Determines texture tiling method.
MetalnessMap	MetalnessMap: ContentId	Determines which parts of the surface are metal and are non-metal.
MetalnessMapContent	MetalnessMapContent: Content	Determines which parts of the surface are metal and are non-metal. Only supports asset URIs as textures.
NormalMap	NormalMap: ContentId	Modifies the lighting of the surface by adding bumps, dents, cracks, and curves without adding more polygons.
NormalMapContent	NormalMapContent: Content	Modifies the lighting of the surface by adding bumps, dents, cracks, and curves without adding more polygons. Only supports asset URIs as textures.
RoughnessMap	RoughnessMap: ContentId	Determines the apparent roughness across the surface.
RoughnessMapContent	RoughnessMapContent: Content	Determines the apparent roughness across the surface. Only supports asset URIs as textures.
StudsPerTile	StudsPerTile: float	Determines the scale of textures.
TexturePack	TexturePack: ContentId	—
TexturePackContent	TexturePackContent: Content	—

Roblox reference: TerrainDetail

Generated from Nova's API dump and Roblox creator-docs. Nova-only members come from the engine's reflection metadata.