tfBlur smoothens a height field using fast, high-quality blur kernels.

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This image shows tfBlur activated on the right-hand terrain.


Properties

Radius

This increases the radius of the strength of the Blur filter, smoothening out transitions in the terrain.

Larger values will take longer to calculate.

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These three terrains have Mode set to Box, with an increasing Radius value, driving an increasing amount of blurring.

Mode

There are five different Mode settings of tfBlur: Box (the default), Gauss, Median, Gauss, fixed 3x3 and Gauss, fixed 5x5.

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Both terrains in this image have a Radius of 3. The left-hand terrain has a Mode setting of Box, whereas the Gauss setting on the right gives an increase in blur quality, while preserving finer details.

Box

This is the default; the fastest Mode setting.

Gauss

A slower Mode setting, but Gauss is much better quality and will give smoother results.