Creating a fairly large map to fly through with jets etc. and running into "problems"

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@TimeSpirit;252583

If I were making a flight sim in UE4 (let’s pretend it’s not a crazy idea for an indie game)

that is indeed a crazy idea, one i am not too keen on trying out, i just dropped those video game names to give an idea for what i am going for scale & detail wise for the map, i am not attempting realism, so your suggestion for getting the right feel is more important than real world sizes, still if anybody who has tried such a thing could give me any insights, i would be very grateful

@TimeSpirit;252583

these are the things I would do:

First thing you should do is nail down the scale - don’t worry if you are doing it right/wrong, you will have to redo everything anyways.
I don’t care about real world units. You are really looking for feel. Does the world feel big or small? Then adjust.
You can scale terrain actors. I would do this instead of tiled worlds at least for now. Start with one. You get that working perfect, then go for tiled worlds.
You don’t need crazy ground collision- this is a good thing.
Bad thing- you don’t really have any way of engineering your level for visibility except for distance culling (maybe later you can do something with a cloud layer, etc.)
Get your pawn feeling like your game. Attach a rough cockpit to the camera. Play with speeds. Fly around your level, tweak, tweak, tweak.

yeah i have been thinking about just creating a relatively quick test version with the landscape tools and brush actors and trying to nail all the other parts before i commit (quick being relative because that would probably take a week at the very least), there is quite a bit of work that would be done twice though, hence me hoping for someone who has tried such a thing to save me from some common pitfalls, i understand if there are mistakes i have to make to learn from them

just there is never enough time…

@TimeSpirit;252583

Stop worrying and just do. You will never ship this game, trust me, it’s about learning at this point. It’s like riding a bike. You won’t learn by trying to figure out all the things that will go wrong. Once you know the concept (peddle with your feet) you just have to do it.

true, i really don’t plan on shipping anything though, just want to create a prototype and see how it plays out - no more or less