How to collaborate using sub-levels, and workflows for it

[xXbollerXx]

We’ve moved to using sub-levels because world partition doesn’t work with our source control, but i’m still not sure on the workflow to collaborate on a level / linear game world.
Can anyone give advise or resources on this, or a case study?

This is how i setup the sub levels for my mineshaft level, but i’m not sure if it’s divided enough.

[BRGEzeHulton]

Hey Boller! We’ve run into the same situation in our team, when World Partition didn’t fit well with source control, we switched to using sub-levels too. It takes some initial setup, but it works well for collaborative workflows.

Here’s what we recommend:

1. Split sub-levels by discipline (Lighting, Gameplay, Audio). That way, different team members can work on different layers without conflicts.

2. For linear levels, you can also split by area or progression (e.g. Entrance, Mid, End, Boss Room), especially if each section is more or less self-contained.

3. Make sure each sub-level is its own file and trackable by source control. Team members should always set their active level before editing (using the Levels window).

4. Mark essential sub-levels (e.g. lighting) as Always Loaded.

Epic has a good overview here:

Managing Multiple Levels in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.5 Documentation |...

How do you manage / collaborate on a project in Unreal with Developers and Designers?

And this short video explains how to structure a clean sub-level setup:

Levels & Sub Levels in Unreal Engine | Efficient Scene Management Explained

It’s definitely more manual than World Partition, but once everyone gets used to the routine, it scales well for teamwork. If you’re still facing challenges or have new questions, feel free to share.

[Stephen_Peltonen]

Hi

My material always goes to this as default top pic.I’m having a problem or I’m not sure

its suppost to look like this bottem pic am I right?

[xXbollerXx]

thanks for the reply.
by the sounds of it, we’ve set our level up like you have. also, how many people are on your team?

reading that post, the only sure way is to communicate and set up workflows.
I think in our case, we can split the gameplay sublevel into more sublevels to split up the interactable puzzles we’re making.

What i would love to see is some case studies of how other games/proejcts have done it

[BRGEzeHulton]

Hi Boller, Firstly, I apologize in advance, but I cannot share anything about the project due to a privacy agreement. However, I’m seeking information that might help you better understand sublevel management.

Videos:

SUB LEVEL workflow | UNREAL ENGINE 5

How to use sub-levels to better organize your Unreal Engine 3D Environments!

official documentation

SubLevels for your Unreal Engine Pipline. | Community tutorial

Setting up the World and Level Structure | Tutorial

Community

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1- Do you place all your Lights, Geo, BP in one level or do you separate them to sublevels? 2- What naming and styling conventions do you use for sublevels? 3- Do you use a lot of level streaming, even for simple linear levels or games? 4- How do you decide about where to segment your level for streaming and how do you load them? I’ve seen many approaches and would like to hear your thoughts on this topic Thanks

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So I just completed a few tutorials on level streaming and the videos showed how to create sub levels and stream between them. I understand the hiearchy and the streaming. I even understand breaking a larger world into layers/levels and streaming them in. All that makes sense. The problem I have is I want to create a seamless loading transition between levels. I’m trying to better understand project structure and how projects should be organized to play an intro movie on start up, display a spla…

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