Mathew81 - Real-World Heightmaps Bundle 2

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This bundle contains the following 5 packs

  1. 8K Scotland and Norway Heightmaps

2. Real-World Heightmaps - USA and UK

3. Alaska Heightmaps

4. Norway Heightmaps

5. England Real-World Landscapes


Purchasing this pack, you get a 100 dollars discount (about 40%) from the original price. With this pack, you will get more than 840 real-world heightmaps, created from DEMs (Digital Elevation Models with very high precision). If you need realistic looking terrains/landscapes, this pack is the best you can get because it offers almost perfect copies of real terrains. Here you can find everything you need from mountains landscapes to lowlands, hills, real-world rivers, real-world lakes. The precision is so high that you can even see man made footpaths, roads etc. The size of the real-world landscape vary from 16 square km to 64 square km, 100 square km, 225 square km and even 400 square km terrains. This bundle is perfect for every type of project which involves outdoor realistic environments.


The setup is also very simple and all you have to do is to simply load the heightmaps into the Unreal Engine landscape system and before importing, type the correct XY and Z scales which can be found in the name of every heightmap/landscape from this pack (it is as simple as that, so you do not need third party plugins, software or accounts). In less than 10 clicks, with this pack, you can import a perfect copy of a real-world terrain into your project.


Check these videos to see what you can achieve with this pack:


VIDEO_1 | VIDEO_2 | VIDEO_3 | VIDEO_4 | VIDEO_5


Landscape auto-materials from the above trailers are not included in this pack. If you want very high quality and smart auto-materials, please check my other packs HERE


Step By Step instructions of how to integrate the heightmaps into your level:


1. Install one of the FREE plugins: "Export PNG" or "ILIAD"

2. Select in the Content Browser the PNG heightmap you want to use in your project

3. Right click on the selected PNG texture (heightmap) and select Asset Actions - Export (or ILIAD Actions - Export, in case you are using ILIAD)

4. Save the PNG heightmap to your hard disk (keep the same PNG format)

5. Open the map you want to import the heightmap into and select Landscape Mode

6. Choose option Import from file and select the previously exported PNG file

7. In order to keep the exact proportions of the real landscape, in the name of every heightmap you can find the X, Y and Z scales for that heightmap. For example, in the filename T_USA33_XY_248_Z_86 , the X and Y scale is 248 and Z scale is 86. So type the correct XYZ scales and then press Import to import the heightmap into your level.

8. Done! In a few seconds you should see the landscape...

This pack contains 7 Demo Maps.


All my REAL-WORLD heightmaps/terrains, including this one, are UNIQUE on Unreal Engine Marketplace because:


  1. I use real-world data with the best possible resolution (most of the cases 1 meter horizontal precision and about 30 cm vertical precision). Resolutions higher than this are not possible because of the current technological limits.
  2. I am the only one who's real-world heightmaps PRESERVE the real-world SCALE
  3. My real-world heightmaps are not procedurally generated in some kind of software like World Machine or Gaea where a heightmap can be generated in minutes. Instead, I use pretty complex manual methods to transform the High Resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) into heightmaps which are in the end perfect copies of real terrains/landscapes. Because of this, creating a single real-world heightmaps can take up to 3 hours.
  4. My real-world heightmaps are the only heightmaps from UE Marketplace which simultaneously respect all the above statements.