How do I use the Terrain Tools feature?

The Megascans Livelink for Unity version 2.11 brings new terrain tools for level designers. Now you can quickly blend materials and start painting on the terrain.

Note: the Terrain Tool in the Unity Livelink is a beta feature.

Before moving on though, please see the following prerequisites necessary for using this feature:

Prerequisites

• This feature is available for Unity 2018.x or above
• For Unity version 2018.1 and 2018.2 it is:
• only available in HDRP
• can set maximum of 4 paint layers
• For Unity version 2018.3 and above it is:
• available for all render pipelines
• can set maximum of 8 paint layers

How To Use Terrain Tools

1. Create a new terrain in the scene.
2. Set the texture tiling property for layers.
3. Select the terrain in scene view and the folder containing the material (that you intend to paint on the terrain) or select the material itself in the Project Hierarchy view. 
4. Click “Setup Paint Layers” and Voila!
5. Start painting.

The terrain tool will automatically generate terrain material and assign paint layers to it. It will also generate a splat map for the terrain. For Unity 2018.3 and above the terrain tool will only generate terrain layer for every material and assign that to the terrain layers.