LandscapeCombinator - Landscape Combinator

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Landscape Combinator is an Unreal Engine 5.6 plugin that lets you create landscapes from real-world data in a few simple steps:

  • Create landscapes from real-world heightmaps (with a basic landscape material to visualize them),

  • Create landscape splines from OSM data.

  • Automatically generate buildings using splines representing buildings outlines in OSM,

  • Add procedural foliage (such as forests) based on OSM data (or other vector files supported by GDAL).

When creating a landscape for a real-world location, the plugin will adjust its position and scale correctly in a planar world. You can thus create several real-world landscapes of various quality and have them placed and scaled correctly with respect to one another.

Notes:

  • The plugin (and source code) is available for free on GitHub for non-commercial projects, or if you want to try it before buying it.

  • The trees (temperate Vegetation: Spruce Forest), high quality textures, and foliage (Megascans) displayed on the captures are not included in the Plugin. They are available for free in the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

Supported Platforms: Windows, Linux

Documentation: https://landscapecombinator.github.io/LandscapeCombinator/

Tutorials: https://youtu.be/g2Be5DAFYpw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM97Jzj5MB0 (newer) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doSbw8PQ1YI (older)

GitHub: https://github.com/LandscapeCombinator/LandscapeCombinator

Discord: https://discord.gg/4dqbEXkUSv

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It is helpful for me ,thank you

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Hi! Do this works in a packaged game? i.e., in a runtime game. I know that landscape cannot be edited in runtime, I am hoping that you solved the problem :slight_smile:

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Hello! You can use the plugin in editor to create a landscape, and then the landscape will work normally at runtime.

If you want to create a landscape at runtime then this is more difficult, and not possible with the plugin. But there’s an option to create a (dynamic) mesh for the landscape instead of a “real” landscape (which will have the same shape), so this could work for you.

Feel free to try the project from GitHub, and join the Discord :slight_smile:

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I’ve just bought this plugin on Fab hope it it would work with UE 5.7 as mentioned (in comparison, on Git you`re telling it’s 5.6). So could you please tell me which one is correct? Hope I didn’t pay for sth. that’s not working :smiley:

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Hello! Yes it works in 5.7, the GitHub README is not up-to-date, if you bought it from Fab please delete all other versions and try reinstalling from Fab.

Sorry for the late answer I missed your message, I’m available on Discord for more direct help.

And I’ll try to update the plugin to UE 5.8 as soon as the preview is out.

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Hello! Any chance of getting the 5.8 update before the end of the summer? I’m gonna work on landscapes in September so I hoped i could make plans for then already. Thanks in advance.
Cheers!