Terrain Editor Common Terms

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Clutter 
Objects such as trees and barns that are automatically placed on the terrain by the Terrain Editor.
Group Master 
An object such as an air field, that is placed on the terrain as a single object, but actually consists of many objects that can be destroyed.
Object 
Any item in the game, such as a tower, runway, tree, barn etc.
Quad 
A 1 square mile cell(grid) divided into 4 sections.
Strat 
Strategic, uncapturable objects in the game.
Texture 
What is displayed to the player to give a visual appearance to an object or the terrain. Many times confused with Tiles because terrain textures must "tile" seamlessly with each other.
Tile 
An object. Such as a clutter tile that may contain both objects and textures.