Mod:Modding/Landscape
Modding : Landscapes
A decent starting place for map-making is donkey's tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKXzXlTbe_8
How to enable structures on landscape
Your landscape needs a correct Collision Presets so building structure can be possible.
1. Select your landscape.
2. set Collision Presets to "Ground".
Useful Landscape Information
These are the materials, skyboxes, and so on that are used on TheIsland. This information will be useful if you want your map to have a similar appearance using Ark assets.
Skybox: BP_SkySphere
Landscape Material: Mat_TheIslandWithMasks_Inst
Landscape Hole Material: Mat_TheIslandWithMasks_Hole_Inst
Water: BP_IslandWaterPlane It should be noted that this particular water plane has holes built for TheIsland's caves.
Water Plane: SM_OceanPlane
Water Material: Water_DepthBlur_MIC
Underside Material: Water_MatIsland_underside_MIC