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List of design/api/usability thoughs generated while working with Unity- will be extended over time. Unity peeps
asked for some priorities, which are labeled (#1-5, 1 being highest) but are somewhat arbitrary (since these range
from massive refactors to simple fixes). Now adding with dates, so it's easy to see what's new..

3/28/2017
Asset publisher gripes:
- No way to enforce "one seat per user" license - companies with multiple employee's using my software only ever pay
once, when it's supposed to be one copy per user. 
- Piracy of assets is rampant
- No subscription business model. You're moving to subscription, why can't we? 

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hader "Unlit/GridOverlay"
{
	Properties
	{
      		_GridSize("Grid Size", Float) = 10  
      		_Grid2Size("Grid 2 Size", Float) = 160
		_Grid3Size("Grid 3 Size", Float) = 320
      		_Alpha ("Alpha", Range(0,1)) = 1
	}
	SubShader

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Also figured out how to enter the hole. Just add a trigger zone in front of your hole and add this code to a script and add the script to your trigger zone.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class EnterHole : MonoBehaviour {


		public Collider player;

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BEGIN_OPTIONS
	Workflow "Unlit"
END_OPTIONS

BEGIN_PROPERTIES
	_Matcap("Matcap Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
END_PROPERTIES

BEGIN_CODE

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TreeInstance lets you set the Y position of the tree, and then you can tell it not to set the tree's to be on the terrain when setting the TreeInstance[] with SetTreeInstances, but when the terrain sync's the height data it aligns them to the terrain Y anyway. This prevents you from sinking the tree's into the ground without changing the model, or floating lilly pads on water, etc. It will work for a second, then snap back to the terrain height.
The terrain details API uses an Int[,] for details. It should be able to readback an R8 texture the same way height/alpha maps can be read back from the GPU. This would at least half the time of MicroVerse updates, if not more if there are more details in use. 
Terrain isn't tessellated when flat - this breaks tessellation shaders which subdivide the terrain, and likely doesn't do much to speed up terrain except on really old GPUs or in preventing a few microtriangles. Would be nice to be able to disable this. 
When reading back heightmaps from the GPU, you have the o

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Compute Shader:

// Each #kernel tells which function to compile; you can have many kernels
#pragma kernel CSMain

// Create a RenderTexture with enableRandomWrite flag and set it
// with cs.SetTexture
AppendStructuredBuffer<float> Result;

[numthreads(256,1,1)]