Small Scale Heightfield Erosion Artifacts

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Hello there!
Whenever i try to make erosion on some smaller part of terrain like 10-50 meters for example the erosion node acts very strange adding some high frequency strong noise in everything.
The Debris Flow Smooth button helps a bit but wonder why is this happening and how can i control this effect?
Is there a global scale multiplier or similar perhaps somewhere?
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Edited by blakshep - Oct. 13, 2023 19:39:28

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I think this underlying noise problem with terrains is just there, and we all deal with it. You might want to try eroding at the default size, then use a couple of CLIP nodes to reduce the terrain to your target size.
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Thank you for your answer!
At least.i know its global issue! Im going to write ticket cause this is like this since heigthfields first came out
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To me this is the expected behavior when working with noise displacement, so as you decrease the element size, you normally also decrease the amplitude of the noise.

However I have not much experience with HF tools.
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