Hi, I am trying to make a spherical landscape (for adding the water component to my scene), is there a way I can do that? Can I somehow bend the landscape? or can I make a sphere in 3D modeling tools, such as C4D, then import to UE5 as a landscape?
Hey there @Online_Learner_Jikii! Welcome to the community! Unfortunately the landscape system is quite rigid and cannot really be anything other than a plane with height differential without massive changes to the source. Same with the water system since it is embedded in the landscapes edit layers functionality. However there are other solutions for planets/planetoids. Just remember you’ll also have to make massive tweaks or have some serious smoke in mirrors as the default player controller systems in unreal are also locked to -Z as the defacto down gravity. Don’t fret! There is a yet a way to still create planets! However it depends on the scope of your game.
I’ll leave a couple of resources below for you to take a look into, let me know if you have any questions!
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Planet with small play area on top:
Fully spherical planet and full playspace using voxel plugin:
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