Working with large maps, Move Level

Development World Creation
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Anyone else working with large maps? I’m just starting to put my world machine height maps in, not my time but first large map.
Here’s where I’m at ://agentfx.blogspot/2015/05/new-land-updates.html

I have an 8kx8k map. Do I break it up into 4, 4kx4k maps so I can work with 4 levels instead of 1 big one?

Is there a way to hide parts of the terrain if its one big landscape object?

I think the Move Level tool is it https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/Editing/ManageMode/

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Anyone have experience with it? Use it in their workflow? I’ll start experimenting but any advice would be helpful.

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When you break it up into 4 parts you can use level streaming to save performance (so you can hide parts of the landscape + all actors in the map): https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/LevelStreaming/index.html
I havent used the “move level” tool yet, but I think it’s here to split a landscape inside the UE4 -> so you can move a part of the level to one of the streaming levels :slight_smile: