Nope, this doesnt have to do with that film starred by Nicole Kidman. Cold Mountain it’s a Map/Mod project I’ve started working on recently for ARK Let me tell you about it:
As the name suggest, it’s a completelly new zone setted in a snowy mountain populated by albino Dinos (That way they conceal better with their environment
The Landscape is just massive, around 50km2 just like the Island, and it’s using a modified material based on the vanilla one.
Here, have some pics.
Andd…the main terrain is still unfinished. There are still lots of detail I have to paint manually, also I want to take a close look to the material network…make some Low poly mountains Static Mesh to place far in the distance.
Righ now, I’ve carved a couple of lakes (green water eeek!), But I’m feeling they are completelly out of place in this landscape and I should remove and use “snow” as primary water source… no completely decided about this since water is an important element of the game.
That said, I would like to make snowballs as a resource that could be harvested and “eaten” to calm down your thirst but also lowering your temperature. You would be also allowed to combine snowballs with a water recipient to fill it for other purposes.
For foliage, I was planing on using custom snowy trees and bushes, but I’ve digged into the files and found some unused ones…maybe I will use them along some of mine.
And since we are on the mountain and not on an island, Custom weather is also on the table…I would like to make some blizzard storm and maybe a frost-like post-process
Be warned, don’t expect too much from me since I’m still learning and figuring out how to do things