Beginner's Frustrating Experiences with the Engine

[anonymous_user_44d624c2]

@bnisbet;78638

Hello ,

As a caveat to my feedback, I have to admit that I’m relatively new to creation tools at large. I have a fair amount of experience with Blender, UDK, and Unity, but no expertise in any area. Because of this relative inexperience, a lot of the lingo and concepts that I find on the site may be over my head.

Also, I have to say that the video tutorials produced by Unreal are excellent. They’ve really aided in my understanding of certain systems.

A specific area that I’m having difficulty with is the Landscape Paint mode and Paint mode. I have a good understanding, from the official documentation, about the creating and editing of the physical aspects of the landscape, however I’m really struggling with the painting of landhttps://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/Editing/PaintMode/index.html does a good job of explaining what each of the brushes do, but I’m stuck at how to actually get to the point where I can lay a brush down on the landscapes. I acknowledge that I may absolutely be missing something, but I have a gap in my knowledge between the creation of landscapes, and actually painting them. Do all of the paints that you use have to be in premade layers?

Thanks very much for your reply and your concern.

You can paint the landscape by Ctrl + clicking.

Here’s the documentation on Paint Mode:
https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/Editing/PaintMode/index.html

You’ll also most likely need this one on Landscape Materials:
https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/Materials/index.html

I hope that helps.