topic Re: How to get the texture of a terrain mesh in Forma Site Design Developer Forum

How to get the texture of a terrain mesh

vc6XFSA — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:32:19 GMT

Hi everyone, could someone please advise me if it is currently possible to get the terrain texture from Forma? Thank you in advance for the answer! 🙂

Re: How to get the texture of a terrain mesh

syed_ammar_abbas_naqvi — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:33:28 GMT

Thank you for your question! 🙂

At the moment, it's not possible to get the base terrain texture directly from Forma. However, if the texture is ordered through the contextual data system, it can be possible to obtain.

Hope this helps!

Best,

Ammar

Re: How to get the texture of a terrain mesh

vc6XFSA — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:16:08 GMT

Hello Ammar,

do you mean that the best way is also to request this data directly from mapbox?

Best regards,

Vsevolod

Re: How to get the texture of a terrain mesh

syed_ammar_abbas_naqvi — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:33:19 GMT

Hello Vsevolod,

Thank you for your follow-up question!

Indeed, at the moment, the best approach to obtaining terrain texture data would be to request it directly from Mapbox.

However, we are currently discussing the possibility of adding the initial map texture order as an element texture, which would make this process more streamlined in the future. While I can't commit to a timeline, I can assure you that this is something we are considering and aiming to improve.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask!

Best,
Ammar

Re: How to get the texture of a terrain mesh

vc6XFSA — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:03:59 GMT

Hi Ammar,

Thanks for your reply!

We have already implemented a solution via texture import via Mapbox. In a way it is even more flexible for us. 🙂

Tell me, is there any possibility, share the geometry recoloring object styles (or style id), that you used to request the texture . Theoretically we can create them ourselves, but I think it would be great to just specify them somewhere in the Figma so that you and I can have maximum consistency! 😃

Best regards

Vsevolod

Re: How to get the texture of a terrain mesh

syed_ammar_abbas_naqvi — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:16:34 GMT

Hi Vsevolod,

Thanks for your message and I'm glad to hear that the texture import via Mapbox is working well!

We are currently using internal Mapbox styles for geometry recoloring object styles.

However, we can make these styles public for you and will do so soon.

Once that's done, I'll share the details with you.

Best regards,

Ammar