AI Control Zones, Animation Points, Navigation Meshes: How to Use the Far Cry 5 Map Editor on PC

[@avideoenthusiastwhoisme9872]

This is easily one of my favorite new features, used it heavily in my new map City of Bats, twas a labor of love.

[@VegetarianZombie]

If you published, put the link here. I'd love to check it out.

[@kirbyscreativity]

what's your Ubisoft name and/or name of map so I can play it.. :D

[@avideoenthusiastwhoisme9872]

KirbysGame101290 names same as here thebiglebateski and the maps called city of Bats

[@Volcom-cy1fd]

Definitely make more of these tutorial videos! Was very helpful.

[@VegetarianZombie]

More are coming! Thanks so much!

[@theindiediary5950]

The vids are very helpful and incredibly funny as well. Love this guy, subbed 2 minutes into this lol.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Thanks Indie diary - I appreciate it. More videos coming next week. I'm currently at a conference.

[@susa.k.a.pinkguy2036]

pls check out my map its called Lost City its on PC and my gamertag is UneditedMold893

[@TreeBushFire]

Please make these daily, Love to learn. Appreciate your time!

[@VegetarianZombie]

Hi Mike - I'm trying but I leave for a conference next week - so the channel will be quiet for a week or so.

[@Jamez-kg7fk]

Thanks! I couldn’t find out how to get the enemy to stay still, this really helped!

[@thebaylock]

You are so calm and relaxing while explaining!

[@PootaurStuff]

Very outstanding tutorial. I sure did learn a lot. Most people have NO clue on how to do a great video. Sometimes they have their brats making noise in the background, or mumble when they talk, or horrible voice for talking, camera moving or shaking, and so on... Well you know what it takes to make a great video, and tutorial. I will be looking at ALL of your tutorials, and taking notes. I want to learn this engine first before the CryEngine, which I have downloaded and played around with. I give you 10 stars! BTW when I was Air Force and civil service my job was making virtual reality electronics training simulations, I used Esperient Creator to do it with! I am retired now, so to not be bored I play World of Warcraft, Arduino, and now back into game making now that I have all the time in the world until I croak! Excellent job... moving on to your next tutorial!!! Thanks!!!

[@glaxosmith3009]

dude ure tutorials are funny and awesome thanks so much i manage to get into arcade cuz of ure vids!

[@Foxhound94]

Your videos are helping me make my Colorado map, thanks for the info about the editor mode.

[@highlonesomebluegrass8286]

Thanks for making the video, it explained a lot. Keep em’ coming, could always use the help. Thanks again!

[@arvid7562]

Thanks dude when I was making my own map I got so annoyed because they just left their places where I wanted them to be, finally I found someone who shows me. Thank you

[@VegetarianZombie]

I'm glad I helped. There's not much written about this editor and it's kind of minefield to figure it out. In any case, im glad I helped.

[@DansJB_M3]

Thank you so much I've been trying to understand how all this works im super interested in this map editor and I was so clueless to how it all works keep it up with the amazing info filled videos👌

[@cleanlybowl]

Thank you for these tutorials. Keep making them!

[@VegetarianZombie]

Thanks!

[@Lil_Valor]

How do I make different AIs stay in different boundaries... I change one of them and it changes all the other AIs to it

[@Lukeysmith_]

Really am learning a lot thank you

[@VegetarianZombie]

Awesome! I'm glad you like them.

[@sethholford5443]

Is it possible to make Al’s enter vehicles in the map editor ?

[@WorldsWorstBoy]

Ya the map editor is really cool Needed help with AI animations so thanks!

[@maxgustavsson3405]

I still need help my gaurd is ignoring the animation point if there is any other gaurds on the map

[@flytoyz]

Love it man. Very helpful and funny. Keep it up.

[@cmacho74]

I have a military building on a enemy Outpost and I am trying to place turrets in the building facing out of the windows. The validation gives the error that there a object in another object. Anyway to put mounted guns inside the buildings?

[@OsamaBinLooney]

didn't know you could change the shape of the control zones, that's neat

[@Stoagie_Lemincelli]

I noticed some animation points work for only certain ai

[@peelypeelmeister6432]

Hi Veg. I was wondering if i could create 2 trigger points that require 2 players to interact with at the same time to say open a door or access to a new area. My son has a habit of running miles ahead and likes to "out do" other players. I want to force players to actually work together at some point to be able to move forward. I hope that makes sense.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Hi Peely, I'm not sure if you can do that. I've only played around with the map editor in context of single player. It'd be interesting to see if that is possible. I'll check it out. Cheers!

[@SKYNOOZE]

this is possible on xbox and ps4 to do all the control IA, control zones ...?

[@VegetarianZombie]

Honestly I don't know. I don't have the game on console and from the sounds of it, thinks are somewhat different.

[@ZeroChillInc]

SKYNOOZE yes

[@highdefinitiongrapes4815]

It's possible

[@rhycetracey2360]

I can't find object preferences anywhere ??? Where do I find it ?

[@VegetarianZombie]

Chance are, you closed it. That means, you'll have to re-open it again. You should find it under View / Preferences. Then you can drag it to the part of the interface where it will dock. I hope that helps!

[@rhycetracey2360]

VegetarianZombie thanks man. Got it

[@okinawagaijin9344]

Hey Zombie, just if you don't know already, the user UTF69 released a mod on the nexus to get rid of the memory budget. you swap a dll and are free to go. It still gives you the memory issue messages once you place above the limit, but you just hit continue and are good to go. Map validation works regardless and according to UTF69, you can upload those maps without any issues! Worth downloading, it works like a charm so far

[@JestersGamingOG]

So to make Npc do animations you just throw it next to the guy? I'm on ps4 and everytime I'm trying to get them to do the animation they just run around or do nothing

[@Dutch_Chucky]

Im curious how ai area and object area not clear can be found on console

[@skinner3574]

The spot where i should be able to size the zone isnt there please help

[@ClassiicMe]

How do you make large underpasses? None of the environment tabs cave passes are large enough for what I want.

[@dusibud2019]

I don't have the object preferences option in my arcade editor. Does anyone know how to get it?

[@spriterfighterstudio4574]

Hello how can i put ai in the planes?

[@SanAndreasGaming]

I see the enemies skin of the first wave only in the selection wheel. Those of waves 2 to 5 are all in grey. Why?

[@bradmace9005]

Do you know why the damn allies for some reason turn hostile whenever I start the map?

[@paulbakker9990]

good tutorial not gonna lie its good for the new players using map editor on pc

[@thelastminuteman7513]

Is there a way to spawn enemies in vehicles? I'm making a mad max style map and I want the enemies to spawn in vehicles and give chase.

[@HeyItsJakegaming]

you inspired me to start using the unity editor thank you so much

[@notluckyjustepic7275]

for some reason i can only get defender npc's to go to the animation and not beserker and other npc's

[@VegetarianZombie]

That's interesting. I wonder if that may be a bug. I suggest you bring it up on the Ubisoft forums.

[@Echo19Audio]

I'm creating a snowy night scenario but a lot of the lights do not seem to work in the editor. Is this a normal issue currently?

[@VegetarianZombie]

I haven't played with the lights - best head over to the ubi map editor forums. they are a great resource.

[@DKY730]

WHAT I NEEDED THANKS !

[@VegetarianZombie]

I'm glad to help out!

[@ramblingroger9249]

I have an issue where it says it says the AI is not clear I’ve done a few things to try solve this but hasn’t worked. Does anyone have any ideas ?

[@susa.k.a.pinkguy2036]

can the ai move outside the control zone if provoked? like will they go after me and chase me outside the control zone?

[@tennis2xl]

Great video! Did I miss a part about snapping things to each other? Like putting a factory down then extending catwalks out from it. That seems like a pain from the only way I know how to do it. Thanks for your time.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Hi Mike - I covered basic snapping - but in today's video, I dove into the snapping tool. It may help in your situation.

[@tennis2xl]

Hello. Thanks for getting back to me! I figured out part of what I was trying to get done. If you hold Control while left clicking and then drag you can rotate your selection without going to the rotate tool. That new video with the snap points helped! If only it was done yesterday so it could have saved me HOURS. Also, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works for copy and paste respectively. And if you have your selection tool and click on something it defaults to the move tool. From there you can Ctrl+left click and drag to pivot the selection. Now I need to try it with what I just learned about snapping. Again, great videos! I just subscribed. PS. maybe go into "locking" things down so you cant move them. Also explaining what the neighborhood selection means. Is it everything attached to that item?

[@Protrainer77]

Please keep making these videos!! Thanks

[@VegetarianZombie]

You got it! :D

[@Protrainer77]

VegetarianZombie please explain how to put a tunnel underground ?? I can't validate my map it keeps saying objects under terrain

[@SASSpicy]

How do you make the enemies attack you?

[@LaFFeN906]

Do you mean how to get the enemies to come and attack you? If that is the case you can use controll zones and assign the enemies to it, they will take the shortest route to the controll zone you asaigned them to. Hope this helps!

[@kmarkusmus]

Can I get help? I try making maps but when I spend some time building and I want to try it out I get an error saying that something is clipping but when I remove the stuff that is cliping it still says it. Any tips?

[@VegetarianZombie]

If you are getting a clipping error, click on the error and it should take you to the problem object. Chances are, you placed an interactable object in another object. Good luck!

[@isaacd7567]

I dont get it how will i get a navigation in farcry 5 arcade with ps4

[@Weuigi]

Helpful vid but I been asking around about my problem.... Im using the PS4 version of arcade editor and my issue is my ai tool bar only has only animal, control and animation features. It doesn't even have script options so do I need to buy anything or is there something wrong that I'm doing?

[@EphemerisYT]

Creating a coop map and when I try and publish it it stays on Generating Navigation Mesh 99% and won't move past it

[@VegetarianZombie]

That sounds like something weird is going on - try saving your map, quitting, and restarting again.

[@randygarcia8359]

were do you get object preferences

[@johnnybgoode2333]

I'm doing this on xbox, and I solved my turret problem with control zones. However is there a setting so the enemy always sees you/ know where you are? I'm making a D-Day like beach landing and currently the enemies don't go after you until you shoot them.

[@tractorboy5140]

Any chance you have a video about rush points and how to make AI’s (ally and enemy) drive vehicles?

[@mikehoncho3740]

Make their control point a big area and place a vehicle in it next to them. They should drive it to get to each end of the control point.

[@foxtrotsierraproductions8626]

I was the first who discovered this back when FC5 came out and made a map called Death Valley where you have to be fast to get a ride to the combat zone

[@Row468]

Playing on the PS4, Journey, but my animation points doesn't work, they just walk away from them. Any clues how to solve?

[@VegetarianZombie]

Check the animation points and see if they match the ai type. That's my only guess.

[@Row468]

VegetarianZombie Hmm, when spawning 'enemies' and placing AI points for 'enemies' it wouldnt work, but then I tried placing an 'Allie' and placed the Shared AI point and that seemed to work when I was bouncing into the Allie to make him turn around to get to the AI point since he also walked away at first. Maybe its just a PS4 bug or something.

[@Vis80842]

I encountered a bug or something, once having added 3 waves of AI to my journey map. Where i can't seem to even open the individual AI tabs in the menu anymore. I just get a light blue square symbol next to the name of tab i'm trying to open. Anyone encountered this?

[@SPYmaps]

Thanks for this second great video, very healpfull those AI futures. Would love to learn more about triggering stuff, like explotions etc. And how to texture (paint) generic shapes, (brushes so to speak). Am following all your video's ! Leon

[@VegetarianZombie]

Hi Leon - I'm not sure if you can trigger explosions and I tried paintining generic shapes, but it didn't work. I need to get a document to Ubisoft for feature improvements and bug fixes. But thanks for stopping by! Cheers!

[@SPYmaps]

Yes, the game is just released. So things can still change but thanks for your reply. Leon

[@logana1999]

VegetarianZombie if you click on a generic shape and press the item options prompt you can scroll through different textures like brick wall or wood boards or concrete

[@SPYmaps]

You are right Logan A, and should it not show then click on; View/reset layout and it will. Great tool to texture all those awesome shapes! Leon

[@bosspaopao15]

@@VegetarianZombie bro, i want make a zombie map for my friend but i have 2 problems: 1 why i cant see all IA zombies (yety, moose.. etc) in my editor?? 2 how many zombies i cant use? can i make infinite spawn in any way for the map?

[@poppyz8961]

I CANT see the object preferences PLS help

[@YT_Untilmate-NPCsholeBlaCk]

i can't find object Preferences :(

[@tarungupta199]

How can we reduce the map size?

[@_Archangel_TC1]

Can you show how to get AI to get into cars and patrol around a building?

[@A1RTA1L]

How do you display Nav Mesh in Far Cry 5 on PS4

[@KJames2345]

Going to map settings when creating a map, and click on navigation mesh for character or if it's a vehicle then change it to vehicles nav mesh.

[@johnlake4448]

If you get a chance, what's a "rush point"? I've been working with this, seen all your videos several times, and still can't figure out the "rush point' option. Control Zones and Animations, I got. Rush Points, I'm baffled. On XBox One Rush Point is a fourth option, after defend, defend cautious, and defend and run. I don't see that option on PC. It doesn't seem to do anything, and won't tie to any NPC (or to the player).

[@johnlake4448]

check out my Bloody Summer on solo at Far Cry 5 arcade.

[@bigslamma8701]

how do i get the angles to attack me? help

[@sj460162]

Very helpful thankyou

[@Brainhorn]

"He's looking more zombie-like than anything" Well, he IS an angel

[@MUZZERGAMING101]

You could in far cry 4 but tried same method in 5 seems like don't work

[@gabegirdley4094]

Yeah well all of the sudden i cant spawn anything, wont show the pictures of where i click to spawn them

[@MrRollie51]

Great Video. Thanks!

[@pHixiq]

Hey when I put wave to to spawn in one “one dead” or any setting?? It never works and they don’t spawn in ??? (Xbox)

[@VegetarianZombie]

hmm ... I'm not sure what's going on. Make sure you are using enemy ai. If you are, then you might want to check the ubi map editor forum.

[@pHixiq]

VegetarianZombie Mkay thx

[@lildread1]

I still cant find out how to make animals attack me when I test my map. Is this normal that they stand still and do nothing when I make a tdm map?

[@kingconker7924]

I cant get animation points to work most of the time. I use xbox one

[@chaz3345]

How do you make friendly AI respawn?

[@muaythai193]

What to do if these bots attack inconsistently?

[@44rpalermo]

Do you know if I can set up my Ally AI so that they follow the player around? Thanks!

[@VegetarianZombie]

I haven't tried. I'd love to have a little doggy ai with a gun :D

[@reversecard7174]

Thank you helped me a lot I was able to finish my map: Hope City pt1

[@VegetarianZombie]

Awesome! glad to help!

[@kgblitz]

Hey did you notice that when you play the map or explore it while still in the editor your character will be different?

[@deswill2737]

could you tell me how i can use the controll point to make a tower defence map? I mean like how do you get the AI to come to your base to attack you?

[@VegetarianZombie]

I'm not sure you could pull of a tower defense map in this system. it requires too much control of the ai which the editor doesn't allow.

[@deswill2737]

basically make them go from point A to B... don't see how that is too complicated for this game. I just can't seem to figure it out.

[@Bjornieman]

You basically set up a control zone with your "tower" in the center, then move the enemies out of it and assign them to that zone, no matter the wave. This will cause them to run to the zone right after spawning, and since I'm assuming you're in the zone and not hidden, attack you. If you set the zone as "Move and Defend", they will most probably put some extra effort into patrolling it in order to find you.

[@perfectvolta67]

Anyone know of a more detailed tutorial for AI setup?

[@PlebNC]

How do you see the nav mesh on the console version?

[@sickslug7633]

Great vid! Is there a short cut way to rotate/turn items?

[@VegetarianZombie]

Thanks so much! Press the 3 key to rotate (if you are on a pc)

[@thekosmickat]

can someone help me find how to check validation on ps4. it says its in the menu but i cant find it. i have to do trial and error to find the problem

[@VegetarianZombie]

Sorry - I can't help you being a PC user, but hopefully, someone will steer you right.

[@thekosmickat]

VegetarianZombie thanks anyway. i found a video that showed it but i have to compare at home because i thought i already tried it

[@sobyrne10]

Thanks for Part 2 :) How do you make birds flying in the sky?.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Call Zeus ;) There may be bird objects that will fly when you add them to the map.

[@richardfisher8460]

A little black line connects the ai character to the box

[@toxicsociety5756]

I made a zombies map its almost just like transit from bo2. You start at a church with no weapons and as u move outside u find a body with a pistol and you follow the path and find better weapons as you go. As you exit the church its basically a forest with villages in between. It pretty nice but not complete

[@theindiediary5950]

Does unity have a drag and drop system like this? I was of the impression i'd need to learn some coding for it? I'd definitely be down for trying it out just for fun if I don't have to learn another language.

[@VegetarianZombie]

I'm actually the lead author of Unity book, Unity Games by Tutorials. Unity does require coding, but it's hilariously fun. I made an entire course on learning C#. Hit me up with any questions if you have them.

[@soulcaliberlinkt1k832]

But can the enemies respawn? That is my only question amd i need it answered!

[@VegetarianZombie]

You can create waves and have enemies spawn based off triggers, but I don't think you can spawn them at will or create infinite respawns.

[@soulcaliberlinkt1k832]

VegetarianZombie well thats betyer than nothing i suppose

[@PSadvance]

My AI are all on instant alert when the map starts, I cant seem to get around this issue no matter what I try. Any ideas?

[@Yan_is_back]

How to place hostages please ?

[@VegetarianZombie]

I'll look into it and see what I can find.

[@Yan_is_back]

VegetarianZombie ok thx

[@whathappenswhen3017]

Would like to see showcase of the AI selection

[@AmericanHero911]

How do we get scripts to spawn AI or despawn AI?

[@TheFrenchDark]

possible to order a particular AI to do an animation ?

[@DerpySnake]

Great tutorial, helped me out but I've found that it doesn't matter for me whether enemies are put in defend or defend & move zones, they just like to move around in them.

[@DerpySnake]

It seems to be that snipers and gunners like to mope around and never move in defend zones, but any other type of enemy roams freely in the defend zone even if it's not specifically a defend and move zone.

[@Zombiebrains24]

How can I have npcs use only melee?

[@KJames2345]

Click on a NPC called Brawler they use a melee weapon.

[@fuiangt999]

Love the fc5 vids keep em comein bro 😁

[@VegetarianZombie]

Thanks so much!

[@VIP_World]

How can you do this on console? Didn't see the option to assign AI to an area

[@The_Hog_Gaming]

Victor Perez press square on the ai and at the bottom there will be a control zone option. For some reason mine started at 400, but the number increased each one I put. Basically if I put down one that one is classified as 400. Then if I put another it's 401. Another it's 402, then 403, etc

[@themagnuspowfilms5956]

This video was so good. Deserves more subs

[@VegetarianZombie]

Thanks so much! I appreciate it :)

[@Xdrtoboggan]

Nice vid! I'm in need of help though ! How do you make the enemy attack you and others I made a sweet sweet map on Xbox and my NPCs don't attack :(

[@ggmanatee]

Hey VZ, there seems to be some correlation between the animation type/point and the playermodel that the npc is. I.e. sometimes I cannot seem to get some of the enemy npcs to do ally animations, or more commonly I can't get someone like a Basic Follower Assault Male to do Enemy animations because in the campaign I believe those types of npcs are hard coded to be an ally. This is all observation of course and even through testing I'm not sure it's conclusive but it seems to be the case. If you'd be willing to tinker with it and see what the trick is to getting animations to work every time that would save a lot of people a lot of stress, that is, if you are able to figure it out.

[@ggmanatee]

After another test even with Elk/Deer I can't seem to get them to act on the "Deers" category of animation -- not sure if the entire engine is just buggy like that or if I'm doing something wrong.

[@VegetarianZombie]

I haven't played too much with the animation points. I'll be offline for a week or so, but when I get back from my company's conference, I'll take a look.

[@zzzzac3819]

Nice video!

[@CptEddyPrice]

do you know how to spawn enemies with helicopters or airplanes? I always wanted to make a dogfight style map but I lack knowledge

[@foxtrotsierraproductions8626]

CptEddyPrice If you are Airborne with a plane or chopper the ai get into choppers but not into Planes

[@CptEddyPrice]

so If I put a chopper in the air and couple of ai above it they will spawn in the chopper when map loads :D? Does this works with cars as well? Thanks a bunch ! It helps

[@VegetarianZombie]

I have no idea. I haven't experimented with this yet. But yeah, it doesn't look you can spawn Ai in vehicles without doing some editor hacking.

[@foxtrotsierraproductions8626]

​@@CptEddyPrice Its late i know but place a control zone and make it big and up in the sky. Place a chopper next to the ememy and he will fly to the CZ. Planes are hard to get to work but possible

[@wabbajackwabbajack6932]

Do you have any tips for skipping the "generating navigation mesh" screen? it pops up every time I want to explore the map and slows things down a lot. Its a multiplayer map with no AI as well, but still I must wait for navmesh every time. :(

[@VegetarianZombie]

I haven't dabbled in multiplayer maps but if I run into the same issues and figure it out, I'll let you know.

[@MUZZERGAMING101]

How do u put ai in vechiles? ?

[@VegetarianZombie]

It looks like that isn't possible in Far Cry 5 - hopefully, they add it in

[@dustindrescher4002]

Put the ai near the car.