Landscape Architect

Ali_Akbar · January 22, 2017, 3:20pm

Thank you @CoquiGames. There are still a few things left to be done (Voxel material framework, biomes, procedural foliage, tooling etc)

Ali_Akbar · January 22, 2017, 3:36pm

Massive Landscapes with Infinite Scrolling

I’ve created a build system that renders massive voxel landscapes (100km+)

The collision is created for patches nearest to the player. The patches are of different sizes with far away patches having low LOD and bigger size (so we have a manageable no. of patches instead of millions of small patches)

All of this happens in a customizable no. of threads (7 in this case). I tried cooking collision in another thread but UE4 / PhysX doesn’t seem to like it. I maintain another queue where I put in all the game thread commands (like cooking physics for requested patches) and run them based on some time threshold (e.g. max 20ms processing per frame). This keeps the game thread from being overwhelmed if too many physics collision requests come at the same time and they are spread across multiple frames

^ 40x40km

anonymous_user_db755992 · January 23, 2017, 4:20am

Hello Ali Akba,I have gotten a problem.I faked a sphere using 6 landscapes,with material that has world position offsets.But XY offsets seems to corrupt the collision,how can I solve it?

Ali_Akbar · January 23, 2017, 6:50am

@knifere material world offset doesn’t affect the collision

jojo8026 · January 23, 2017, 8:12am

So when can we buy this?

anonymous_user_db755992 · January 23, 2017, 10:40am

landscape component have an option “Bake Material World Position Offset”,But it cannot bake XY offsets……

Mr_SquarePeg · January 23, 2017, 11:19am

Hey [MENTION=28980][/MENTION] - Got a bit of a suggestion -

Since people keep asking for a release date and when they can buy Landscape architect.
Just put up an road map of what needs to be done.

I would recommend to use Trello or hack’n plan.

Just an Idea and cannot wait to see more.

HeadClot

jojo8026 · January 23, 2017, 10:41pm

Yes Please do instead of keeping us all in the dark

Ali_Akbar · January 31, 2017, 9:54am

Added terrain modification support exposed through blueprints.

The voxel terrain also supports tessellation for more detailed look. The snow rocks / shards are tessellated and offset from the material.

It also saves all the changes to the terrain in a compressed binary format

@HeadClot @jojo8026 I’ll share the road map soon

Mr_SquarePeg · January 31, 2017, 10:13am

That terrain looks crazy awesome

Ghoxt · January 31, 2017, 5:21pm

Thanks, it’s appreciated, several of us are keeping a close eye on this of course.

anonymous_user_adcf0aef · January 31, 2017, 6:13pm

This is absolutely gorgeous. Keep up the good work Ali!

Ali_Akbar · February 1, 2017, 8:34am

Thanks for the support

Roadmap for Landscape Architect -> Trello

Mr_SquarePeg · February 1, 2017, 8:58am

Hey [MENTION=28980][/MENTION] - Thanks for the road map.

Cannot wait to see this evolve

mid_gen · February 3, 2017, 8:25am

Just saw this on youtube. Awesome work, puts my efforts to shame!

JosephJames · February 4, 2017, 3:30am

Anyone else thinking that maybe Epic should consider implementing this straight into the engine? So many people want all the features that are in this and it seems like it would really benefit them if this technology was just native to the engine.

Aumaan_Anubis · February 6, 2017, 3:02am

subscribes to thread

kelfire · February 6, 2017, 5:00am

@ Amazing work so far. Have you seen the work flow for editing landscape for D.R.O.N.E? I’ll post a link below. It has probably the best landscape workflow I seen out of any game. The stamp and paint ability allows for really quick blocking of the terrain system.

Mike_Norton · February 9, 2017, 7:55pm

This is perfect and exactly what I have been looking for!!! Take my money!!

I will keep an eye out and start working on my other game systems since I was working on landscaping till NOW!!

Awesome work!!

0mnipotent · February 13, 2017, 5:05pm

This is a brilliant tool. Excellent work on this!