When making the terrain he selected Mat_TheIslandMask_inst, which only gives you access to certain landscape textures like shared_Grass and sand, which are tropical themed and are designed for the default map. Now that there is snow in the game i thought i would test it out. I located snowy ground textures, but can not select them where i select the other textures to paint. I know it has something to do with the initial Material, but how do i change it?. p.s. i am new to ark dev kit.
I can’t provide much help on this but its completely possible that all the materials you need haven’t been added to the dev kit. I would expect you will be able to complete your task when they add all relevant files for the 216 update.
You can just duplicate the MAT_TheIslandMask_inst, move to it to your mod folder, then double click it to open the instance. You can then find the material you want to change and put in different textures and change some other parameters as well. Also make sure you assign this new duplicated instance to your terrain.