How can I make a big map?

[Krenko_sgi]

Hello, as a title, I’m planning to make a bigger map as the island… I’ ve tried with the world composition and tiled landscape from WM, but when I import it the adk doesn’t work properly… it just stuck tiles in the middle of the working area one up the other like pages of a book… world composition is not supported from the ADK? Or is just an error? there is other way to made a map bigger ( level streaming of course ), like Ragnarok or Volcano… how do they do it?

[Huston850]

@Krenko _sgi;678279

Hello, as a title, I’m planning to make a bigger map as the island… I’ ve tried with the world composition and tiled landscape from WM, but when I import it the adk doesn’t work properly… it just stuck tiles in the middle of the working area one up the other like pages of a book… world composition is not supported from the ADK? Or is just an error? there is other way to made a map bigger ( level streaming of course ), like Ragnarok or Volcano… how do they do it?

I’m clueless as to how to actually piece together a map, but the physical size of the island is around maximum supported by UE4. What the other maps do to make a map wider is reduce the map height ceiling, giving them additional volume to stretch out.

[duke54]

The terrain itself does not need to be streamed (divided into seperate files) You need to learn about streaming the foliage and rocks to make a bg map. Check out my examples maps to get started: Duke's Free Heightmaps - ARK: Survival Evolved - Unreal Engine Forums

Also, here’s my post with a download to the actual ARk map ‘The Island’ so you can look at that to get n idea of how to set your specs in WM: My New Map! - ARK: Survival Evolved - Unreal Engine Forums

[AP_Studios]

@Krenko _sgi;678279

Hello, as a title, I’m planning to make a bigger map as the island… I’ ve tried with the world composition and tiled landscape from WM, but when I import it the adk doesn’t work properly… it just stuck tiles in the middle of the working area one up the other like pages of a book… world composition is not supported from the ADK? Or is just an error? there is other way to made a map bigger ( level streaming of course ), like Ragnarok or Volcano… how do they do it?

So … here is the “catch”
You cna make it as big as you want, but, thats a big misleading.
You have to stay within X/Y 1,000,000 / - 1,000,000
Actual is like 1.2mil/-1.2mil
Issue is that replication and the engines (at the version of ARK) ability to manage things the further from X/Y 0 you get.
A good sign things are about to go wrong: dinos fall into the landscape and become invisible but can still attack and be attacked.

As @duke54 stated, foliage culling is key.

[Richie]

With big maps how do you render in the distance ? previously i’ve used Arma and that has a large satellite image for distances and up close it loads surface images, is UE4 the same ? I don’t find any guides that explain that part, so you can make real life looking terrains.

[AP_Studios]

@Richie.;724208

With big maps how do you render in the distance ? previously i’ve used Arma and that has a large satellite image for distances and up close it loads surface images, is UE4 the same ? I don’t find any guides that explain that part, so you can make real life looking terrains.

little confused on the question and i dont want to assume an answer to it because it maybe way off-base.

[Richie]

@AP_Studios;726055

little confused on the question and i dont want to assume an answer to it because it maybe way off-base.

I’ve made progress, sort of
Presuming that terrain creating is a similar process with different engines was wrong, UE4 is a totally different setup to how Arma does terrains, thanks for the reply though.