Looking for a tutorial: Described in description

Development World Creation
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Hello, I Have been playing a fair few games in my life as I stream a lot of them and also I have had some games made for me. However I know MANY companies now use UNITY for most games made, However I Love Unreal and have been a paid subscriber my self when it wasn’t free but I have never managed to find any good tutorials for land creation, by land creation I mean a tutorial to make a landscape like the ones you see in “REIGN OF KINGS” “RUST” these kind of beach/island/survival mountain kind of area’s.

so could someone possibly help me out with any tutorial in unreal engine for what I have just described.

Thank you.

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I would recommend first reading the official documentation if have not done so already. I use a third party tool to generate my terrain height map, the one I use is TerreSculptor however there are many others to choose from. By using this tool, I can create large realistic landscapes in seconds, then it is just a matter of importing it into unreal and decorating it.

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thank you for that reply, just out of curiosity do you know if these big games such as rust, reign of kings have made their landscapes with random height maps?

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Mostly such landscapes were generated in programs like world machine. After that you can import it as a heightmap + you can still edit it with the landscape tool :slight_smile:

Take a look at this tutorial:
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https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/index.html

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thank you for that information :slight_smile: just wondering but are their any games like what i have described made on unreal engine as nearly all of them are unity … can our engine handle these type of games? i just dont see any to be honest.

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As far as I know there are no finished games like the ones that you mentioned, but in the UE4 everything is possible! -> a game like RUST shouldnt be so difficult to create (you can find some survival/crafting prototypes in the WIP, released and community content section) :slight_smile:

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hmm i hope so I have been told UE4 cant handle that many people nor the size of the map. but if unity can i dont see how ue4 is that far off

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people -> https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?156-Multiplayer-capabilities-documentation Theoretically there is no limit -> you can change everything in the source code
map size -> ?v=JNgsbNvkNjE = 100 square miles :wink:

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oh this seems better now :slight_smile: i actually never thought UE4 could handle but now that is explained I got to say I love UE4 even more so. :smiley:

Lets hope the graphics can kick unity’s *** … just saying would be awesome to have this released and for people to know UE4 runs it :slight_smile: I will be putting enough money behind it anyway lol now just to find a team … fun begins :slight_smile: