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