Make An Open World Map in 20 Mins | Unreal Engine 5

[@luenaquazarios3920]

for those of you like me, if u dont see the landmass blueprints then you have to enable the landmass plugin under the EDIT tab

[@Ага-у3ь]

Thank you

[@Wolfhack011]

thats still complicated for me, so do click on that edit thing and to plugins? but theres nothing with a landmass there

[@Prototiphrom]

@@Wolfhack011 Yes. Edit -> plugins in the search bar type landmass then enable

[@BedirKM2]

I was looking for this

[@jm-gb7ip]

By god, thank u, u have saved me lots of time and tears

[@geekpotion]

you just taught me more in 20 minutes than other videos have done in hours. thank you

[@xXxOmarSanchezxXx]

Seriously! Idk why no other video I’ve watched talks about the blueprint brush. I was looking for a way to create a mass using the spline tool. Seems the most practical

[@The_Ace777]

Now that I know how to do some basics with UE5 this really helps.

[@gustawkrzewicki1496]

But it was 20 minutes and 1 second :(

[@puppergump4117]

​@@gustawkrzewicki1496 If you want to get specific.... The actual explaining begins at exactly 0:45. The outro begins at 19:01. In between, I suppose the actual creation of the level can count as an explanation. So there's 18 minutes 16 seconds of explanation, which is less than 20.

[@huiAPPOAJ]

>Make An Open World Map in 20 Mins >Wait 3 Hours Total for Shaders to Compile

[@Clam_4]

true

[@terasgamer9097]

I was looking for this comment

[@pissoutmyassable]

And then run out and buy a new pc

[@FeartheBoxes]

if i wanted to remove the grass that blows in the wind, do you know how would i do that??

[@mohammadmokaddem]

It took me a lot of time to figure it out but if you are facing a problem with your character walking through the trees and rocks, then only adding collision wont work, go to the foliage mode, then scroll down until you find the (collision preset) panel and then select block all dynamics. Hope this helps!

[@conditionallytriggered2313]

Ty for pointing this out. I will mak sure it's sorted ahead of time now that I know.

[@Reapther2]

Thanks!

[@kriswintf2027]

Thx, pal.

[@Outshind]

If you get the issue at 10:00 where you drag in the ocean and can't get your landscape back to its original look, go into the "WaterBodyOcean" details, search for "terrain" and under "Water Heightmap Settings", change the "Blend Mode" to Max. Then scroll all the way up and manually lower the oceans height. Hope this helps some people :)

[@oksu.ob0685]

thanks

[@DelttaGaming]

Thank you

[@Neebless]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@westonshorts912]

do you mean when the fps drops to 1 or something else

[@_Zerk_]

W manz

[@MsStDon]

Popping by to say this was an awesome tutorial. Both me & one of my high school students followed it together for his independent project this week and we both got it done with little issues (on our end). Awesome job!

[@HenrikGamborg]

Can't wait to play around with this tomorrow. Should be really fun. Thanks for the intro tutorial, good kickstart.

[@llLastll01]

Dude I’ve been looking for something like this for YEARS…this is so much simpler than doing everything manually

[@DragonBread]

this was a fantastic tutorial. I'm trying to make my first game and I've been really stuck. I found this and now I'm definitely going to go back to watch the whole Lyra series, maybe I'll finally get somewhere!

[@S4GGY]

yo how has your game dev journey been going im currently making my first game ever with little to no experience

[@DragonBread]

@@S4GGY it's a slow thing. I'm not the most artistic so learning how to sculpt in blender has been a journey. Add to that the actual game making itself and I find myself doing the whole thing in parts. I now have a map, a character, an adversary and everyone can move... next is objectives then, who knows, equipment maybe or a start menu. There's so much to it that I just had never thought about but it has been fun. Thanks for asking. How's your game dev journey treating you?

[@S4GGY]

@@DragonBread hard and quite honestly frusterating because I feel like im stuck and cant learn lol but I hope one day I will break out of that

[@DragonBread]

@@S4GGY what part are you stuck on? I find this whole thing to be an exercise in eating an elephant: one piece at a time. You make a plan thorough plan then break it into tiny bits: make a character walk, make a room for the character to walk in, etc etc. I still get stuck a lot because i lack a lot of skills.

[@S4GGY]

@@DragonBread I am currentlly just figuring stuff out still and I feel like the second I get something working the game breaks lol I want to make a game similar to dead poly if you havent heard of it its like a very low quality day z I am working on the basic map design rn

[@t3hPoundcake]

I've been using unreal for years and I had no idea you could just add an ocean like that. I always made a plane and assigned a water shader and a custom post process volume. That alone was worth watching this for me!

[@conditionallytriggered2313]

Thank you so much for making this! I have been racking my brain for days trying to find out how to do something like this. You just saved me soooooooo much time. You're a blessing to all of us still learning the ropes

[@RThauby]

Dude. 30 seconds in and answered a question i've been searching for for a while. Fantastic tutorial!

[@GaryParkin]

I'm totally blown away at the ease of this tutorial. I've been messing with UE for almost 2 years now and I haven't found a landscape tutorial that looks as real to a game as this one. And so simple. Thank you for all the help. I had almost given up on creating an outside environment. UE5 rocks! I'll be checking out the Easy Building system too fore sure. Subscribed.

[@jonahbutterfield5792]

I didn't think making a 3d game space and game was realistic for me to get into but after watching this, I defiantly want to get this unreal engine 5 and see if I can make this game idea I've had for a while. Great tutorial, Ill be back to reference this to learn what I'm doing once I download the program.

[@mattshu]

Best part is it’s free

[@fathercrim]

I came back to reference this video, multiple times, for the past 3 days. This was extremely helpful. My computer is just hella slow. I'm surprised I can even do any of this

[@yuezhang5551]

Even though I don't think it is a tool to create precise and complicated terrain, but still a good way to do terrain sketch, thanks for sharing, great tut

[@STLLSLW]

I never thought id start to get the hang of any of this. This video has proven me wrong!!

[@Sonomatt]

This has been one of the best tutorials ive watched. I feel like I’ve actually learned and expanded my knowledge. Subbed for more.

[@daan3898]

Very helpfull tutorial for a beginner like myself with no knowledge about unreal engine. thanks for creating it took me about a day to get my world layout up and running

[@SevenDos]

Thanks for this tutorial, this was really helpful in learning some of the tools I didn't know about yet. Great work for providing this!

[@seasonalbandit4752]

love the video super helpful, the one thing I did not enjoy was closing and opening easy build systems 10 times when i could have just migrated everything i needed all in one loading of the map. Should not have to go back and forth constantly.

[@Phoenix-1278]

Amazing video, simple and easy to follow for an absolute beginner like myself! After two hours I feel like a pro. I'd thumbs up more than once if I could.

[@Legomanshorts-c5o]

absolutely amazing. love all the tips will be using this soon

[@georgeCARAMEL]

man its so helpfull, i was frustrated and hated unreal engine, but after seeing your video i love it and its better than blender! thanks alot

[@MuziFN]

guys if you have water problem all you need is to add water first and then make landscape an adjust where u like in that case your island base must be high or the water will glitch

[@Syanticraven]

I really enjoyed this tutorial, it was a lot of fun. The only Issue I had was that I wasnt able to find a way to "hole" my landscape so if I have a building with stairs going down to an underground tunnel I couldnt like erase the terrain near by or remove it (Grass texture would stay and if I tried to add a LandscapeVisibilityMask for opacityMask it just broke stuff)

[@AlexAlex10703]

go to landscape and to blueprint, add a new layer, switch from "none" to CustomBrush_Landmass, Make it a cap and move the whole layer down and boom, hole Hope it helped! :D i have no idea how to get rid of the underwater effect though so please tell me if you figure that one out! :)

[@Mimeniia]

Detailed, concise and to the point. Nice!

[@Smudgeurfudgemuffin]

Can't believe I had no idea about landmass! Such a useful feature

[@DaveVanderWekke]

Great tutorial. Easy to follow. One thing I can't figure out. How to make it so your player cannot pass through the trees and rocks. Right now my player can walk through all of the painted foliage.

[@SmartPoly]

just go to the foliage painter and select the trees, in the settings you can enable collision

[@PleaseCrossaunts]

@@SmartPoly hi I’m working on a game named Apollo royal and I’m using the map in the video for its map but I’m having a hard time drawing it so I can map all the stuff out may you make a turtorial on how to draw it? Also very helpful video I’m getting a laptop soon can’t wait to make my first game

[@justanopinion7029]

@@SmartPoly pls help i cant find the falloff window im new at this and wanna stick with it what settings have you got enabled that shows everything i need

[@Valkier_Kato]

For anyone having issues with the ocean water around the island being higher than the rest of the ocean around it, thus creating a weird lil gap where your landscape ends, the only fix I can figure out how to do is this: Start the level by making the smallest possible landscape (64x64). Then, before doing ANYTHING, drag in the ocean. Then scale the ocean splines to roughly the center of the map. Go ahead and select the 64x64 landmass you just made and delete it, then go back to the Landscape mode and make a NEW landscape, this time as big as you want. NOW go ahead and follow the tutorial from the beginning and make your island. For some reason the engine puts a box around whatever landscape you have at the time of dragging in the ocean, and this creates a gap between the water directly above your landscape and the rest of the ocean in the distance. So by making that initial landscape small as possible the ocean gap is only 64x64 instead of the same size as your new landscape. This is the only way I've found to fix it. That gap is still there, but it's now below your island and out of sight.

[@MartussMartuss]

I found a better solution! Go to your WaterZone instance (it was created together with the ocean) -> rendering -> Reset its "extent in tiles" value by pressing the arrow right of the numbers

[@mrmachinehead8059]

This works so well, thanks a lot for the solution. :) @@MartussMartuss

[@HilaryWestfall]

If you're having problems with the height of your water: create two viewports side by side, one in view of choice and one in wireframe/left or right view. UNCHECK affect heightmap in WaterBrushManager Look at wireframe viewport and figure out where the water is supposed to be based on the shape of your island CHECK affect heightmap in WaterBrushManager Move waterbodyocean (represented by the long horizontal blue line in the wireframe viewport) along the Z axis until it reaches the place where it needs to be UNCHECK affect heightmap in WaterBrushManager again Confirm water looks right in the other viewport

[@Weston_Levi_Self]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@milksteak_13]

thanks!

[@trachinusdraco]

This helps. Very cool. I'm transitioning from Unity and Unreal just seems like it's full of nice suprises

[@mata184.]

did you stick to the transition 1 yr later

[@michaeldzbenski1210]

THANK GOD A TUTORIAL WHERE SOMEONE IS TALKING YOU THROUGH IT!

[@KekeDevs]

and not explaining how to fix the water

[@ashbytheartist3197]

The option for “Custombrush_landmass” ( 2:30 ) in the dropdown does not show up for me. Does anyone know why or how I can fix it?

[@SmartPoly]

sorry I forgot to mention to enable the landmass plugin. go to edit at the top left > then plugins > then search for landmass and click the checkbox to enable it. then restart or reopen the project

[@christianqonja2976]

@@SmartPoly thanks

[@rabbiter3737]

THANKS sooo much. Dude I thought it was over :D

[@rohitbhavsar4187]

Please pin this.

[@etv-game]

@@SmartPoly I looked for this comment everywhere. Please pin this comment so someone else can benefit from it too. At first, I thought it was due to a version difference because it wasn't an up-to-date video, and frankly, I didn't know how to find it. I was just watching the whole video blankly because I couldn't find this option at the beginning. It makes more sense now. If people do not know that they need to activate this plugin, they watch the entire video in vain. People need to know. Please pin it. I don't know English. Google translate

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

This video was awesome. Just the right pace with everything you could want.

[@chipsandbeer7083]

The only developer who makes me wanna learn unreal engine

[@Fustercluck06]

Really enjoying these videos. Everything is explained clearly and easy to follow along.

[@rdp34pp89]

As always excelent tutorial! One open issue. When rocks, stones and trees are ''painted'' as a folliage there is no collision and the player goes through them. When all the assets are set as Right click/Asset actions/Bulk edit via property matrix/Static mesh/Body Setup/Collision Complexity ->Use complex collision as simple and dropped one by one then they have collision. But even in this state when painted there is no collision.

[@WilburKentucky7734]

all you have to do is go into foliage and ctrl click all of the foliage you want with collision and go down into the menu that will pop up after clicking on those and scroll down till you see collision presets and change it to block all collision. i hope this helps you and anyone else who had this problem.

[@rdp34pp89]

@@WilburKentucky7734 Thank you!

[@Dxnkoslavik]

@@WilburKentucky7734 hero!

[@itsbayside6802]

i couldnt find the custom brush landmass option

[@shadowwolf54]

go to edit at the top left > then plugins > then search for landmass and click the checkbox to enable it. then restart or reopen the project

[@spc_nathan]

Hello, the video is very helpful in many ways. Unfortunately, I am having a slight problem where the grass won’t show up after adding the “Weight-Blended Layer (normal)” to the “Layer Slope”. Grass appears at 9:50

[@eriqpym2602]

Yes i have the same problem and i don't acually know how to resolve it

[@tomcoles8800]

Same problem here. Has anyone found out how to resolve this??

[@tomcoles8800]

Update: I moved my terrain slightly and then all the grass suddenly appeared!

[@spc_nathan]

@@tomcoles8800 I tried moving my landscape but no grass showed up.

[@astr4l_ink24]

@@tomcoles8800 yes it worked for me too so thanks

[@unwillingprophet1567]

Yesterday I was angry that UE5 basically bricked my main level. Today I am glad, because I found this video I will use to design a much better level.

[@laughingmatterstudios]

This has been the greatest help ever! Thank for making this!

[@mouldystream2131]

this video learnt me how to go from 0 to almost 100 precent its a very good tutorial

[@voqtri22]

First of all, thank you Smart Poly for many landscape tutorials. Every month free assets video reminds me to go to market place to download it. Much appreciated! Can you make a tutorial on how to create a Flying island/Floating island like in Chinese fantasy movies? Once again, thank you for all of your videos!

[@EvokerKing]

well that would basically be this without adding water but the one problem would be getting the rest of the landscape to not be visible or collision-enabled. im guessing the building would be made out of 3d assets, unless you want to spend the time trying to make a giant temple in unreal engine with no assets

[@voqtri22]

@@EvokerKing Thank you Hex, I did try some megascan assets to build a small floating hill. However, the shape is really hard to scale and adjust (looks so fake). Maybe I should spend more time playing around with UE and find more ways.

[@akaiumbra2838]

dont have the landmass tool you started using at 2:30. nothing shows up in brushes at all, so i cant follow any further :/

[@OfficialFutureRoyale]

you have to enable the landmass plugin found under edit

[@Mr.Frizzles]

Is there a way to get rid of the grass in certain areas?

[@darkigg]

That looks great, can't wait to try do it myself

[@RandomPerson1572]

One tip: if you dont see the grass render when you get close, make sure you have MI stylised landscape, not MM

[@nectuno5243]

i do but i still don’t see grass

[@DoronTshuva770]

seen it last night and i must say it is very professional! you make it look so simple, but then i got to my computer and found out i got no blueprints in my brushes is this a 2nd part to something?

[@kieranniemand2939]

This guy made a better map than Caldera in 20min

[@anthonydebruin4193]

This was a great video for a beginner like me! Thank you!

[@HustlaFrog]

----GRASS NOT APPEARING WHEN YOU REACH --9:50--?---- Thank you for the help down below. If you cant see the grass, move the anchor points of your landscape and it should appear when you get close enough to render. Enjoy everyone.

[@AlexAlex10703]

:D

[@craftyplayz_]

Hey im having the issue where the grass dosnt show up but im not sure what you mean by moving the anchor points since im fairly new to unreal engine. could you please explain exactly how i would do this even though im probably missing something obvious

[@alexwii2963]

It means you have to move the points of the base of your island.

[@Theshortguy09]

How can i move the anchor point?

[@jovikrizas-yt7tm]

did you find it?@@Theshortguy09

[@monster6236]

Bro, im only 8 mins in and this has taught me so much. Love it!

[@xielian2255]

my brush wont drag out, how do i fix this? Thank you

[@GoopieDesert]

I have the same problem and I also can't deselect my landmass lol

[@SamIsRigged]

MY UE5 GLITCHES OU EVERYTIME I GO TO ASSET ACTIONS WHY?

[@mango2005]

When I click on the imported Landscape , am I supposed to double click on it? If I dont do so, I don't see a "Landscape" drop down menu or heading on the right. If I do double click on it (I have version 5.3) a separate box opens with a "Details" and "Layer Parameters" tab. Also after the original migration from EasyBuildings a message "Landscape 1: Actor with Physical Materials needs to be rebuilt". When I try to resolve by clicking "Build Landscape" I get 3 error messages. They are "StaticMeshActor_1 Large actor receives a pre-shadow and will cause extreme performance hit unless bCastDynamicShadow is set to false." and "LandMassBrushManager_C_0 Large actor receives a pre-shadow and will cause an extreme performance hit unless bCastDynamicShadow is set to false". Update: I tried starting from scratch and creating a new file but as soon as I go into Landscape mode it says "Landscape 1: Actor with Physical Materials needs to be rebuilt"

[@Sirfiretruck]

Everytime i try and change the landscape material to what you do it turns into a cloud material. Its the exact same name as yours i followed what you did 5 times. Everything is still invisible, or blending in with the sky?

[@BaileyLackas]

i'm also having this issue, did you figure out how to fix this?

[@patron13375]

Very simple and easy do follow. Well made!

[@YouZido]

If the spline points disappear even if you got the brush selected, try just restarting unreal, seem to be an bug

[@rudra6219]

Great tutorial, lots of love from India ❤️

[@dconnectzone]

I created island and it was easy for me as i learn a lot from this channel...back days too.. but still can't solve one issue: - Player Start I place (in correct position not under landscape) but still player falls under the map . Solution: was to delete that and just hit play and it will spawn player auto but again character i can play with only seems to be able to navigate but other bots just fall under the landscape. I remember, I did fix similar issue at past but not exactly how.

[@kingd8155]

Thank you. I learned a lot from your tutorial.

[@therandomhero76]

Is there a reason why moving a spline point doesn't update in real time? I have to switch back to the actor itself and move it to get it to update

[@GoopieDesert]

I have that problem as well

[@AswingNAmish]

i do not have a blueprint brush do i have to download them somewhere??

[@giannisigona5830]

once you've done how do u make the landscape bigger

[@augusttttx]

Bro no shot this shit was the most helpful thing I’ve seen in a minute 💎

[@timorre3971]

when i play the level i start up under the landmass

[@GodmodeMastermind]

move your player start actor up

[@OlavSchneider]

interesting choice of scale mountains to trees.

[@craciantvairemont6288]

Videos would be much more helpful if you did a little more explaining "why" and "how" For example, Why are we using blueprint brush instead of sculpt? Any interactions with the keyboard and mouse that aren't immediately intuitive, should mention which key or button you press the first time you perform that action.

[@8lec_R]

Helped me pass my exam. Thx m8

[@filmjohann9079]

Bro this is the best Tutorial on earth. helps so much

[@gr4j0m3r]

How to set up a collision of the trees and rocks that already painted? Ok got it, click painted foliage, go to foliage mode, select all rocks and trees and edit collisions setting to PhysicsActor. Done!

[@spoysgaming5575]

Very nice tutorial as always, keep it up!

[@suras8849]

This video was an instant subscribe!

[@The_Harsh_Truth]

HI there smart Poly, I'm having some problem in my indie game, can you help? Issue: I'm making an open world game (using UE5 and world partition system) everything seems to work fine but then I added a mountain using the landmass tool, after that when I try to load the whole map the mountain isn't loading sometime. (its in separate landscape layer) the map isn't that big only about 2km square. So what am I doing wrong? Can you please point out the mistake I'm making.

[@yohannesdewander798]

when I use the landmass brush, it creates a whole instead of the pyramid. any suggestions?

[@mgnishibuya1]

It's happened to me too. I'm using UE 5.0.3. Did you found a fix?

[@aneLisse7]

i can’t see the layers pls helpppp

[@cristianbataturescu5695]

Good video. Thanks. What is your system hardware, pc ? I see is moving easily

[@FortniteplayersHUB]

great vid matee!

[@elizabethhegarty8834]

Amazing tutorial, but every time I add grass all over my terrain, my game glitches. How do I fix this?

[@zydercrystal]

Bro you should mention the landmass plugin in the video :)

[@buscadon8281]

Above all, don't forget you should not actually make an island in 20 minutes unless it's very unimportant! The shape and form of any level you make should be well thought out to fit the gameplay. If you want a good example, look at Legend of Zelda Windwaker.

[@mpua]

2:25 What if I do not have all those options there? No Custom Brush. Jyst empty dropdown

[@shadowwolf54]

go to edit at the top left > then plugins > then search for landmass and click the checkbox to enable it. then restart or reopen the project

[@neobanban9273]

Incredible! 🤯Thank you so much for this!

[@erikbarnes2564]

Great tutorial, quick question, can you help me understand why i should use this method vs using the contour tools. More random? Quicker? Other reasons?

[@SmartPoly]

there are multiple methods for creating maps, this one is quick and easy. Also there are external programs you can use, however they are not free

[@RiverFox_YT]

9:33 do you know how to add an extra layer to this material? i want to add a snow layer but cant find anywhere that i can add the layer to it

[@CaptainFei-r1s]

I have seen a lot of tutorials on how to create "auto materials". Seems like you can add various layer into one material, incl. snow, water, rock, mud and so on.

[@technobladed1]

Amazing tutorial helped me a lot :)!

[@youcefelghoul560]

This tutorial is very helpful and fast which is good for me thank you so much

[@Gregathonlia]

guys when i install landmass plugin it still wont show blueprint thing can anyone help me

[@Chrisnobable]

thanks man this is great. keep doing more if you can!

[@CP-Mohammed]

Great can you make a video about how to create a fast city map?

[@djseverson3061]

2:50 when I try to drag the landmass it only moves it and when I try to hold alt to form the landmass it clones instead. I have watched to try to understand what I have been doing wrong. Did I miss something?

[@ddoss6575]

Click a different spline then hold alt and drag, when it’s first created you are moving the base anchor, click one of the child splines, I had the same issue

[@iiroz]

Am I the only one who doesn't see details in the actors?

[@olliethemesiengineer]

yeah if you you are trying to do this in unreal 5.2 you might as well give up already 1. they removed the texters from the market place 2. the settings are changed

[@Zxrs519]

love your content keep it up

[@dodeplayz1439]

2:57 Why is there no such thing as details for me?? The actors tab is on the bottom and how do I open it so I can see the details???

[@Valkier_Kato]

From the top of your screen, click Windows. It's along the top where File and Edit are etc. Click Windows, go down to Details, and click Details 1, make sure it has a check mark next to it. You can use this Windows tab to open anything you previously closed like World Outliner, Detials, etc.

[@dodeplayz1439]

@@Valkier_Kato Thank You So Much!!

[@luke3253]

Well, I have problem from beginning... When I use landmass brush on landscape, its creating pyramid, but without any points to move. Without it I can't do anything. Any props? Yes, I have "Enable Edit Layers" on.

[@emoneyswag11]

same

[@michaelrowe8203]

what do you do when it wont let you drag the spline points for the island using "ALT" my keybinds are different then yours is there a setting i can refer to?

[@bixksx]

How do I get the blueprint brush at 2:26?

[@r.rodriguez4991]

How is it that a 20 minute tutorial ends up looking better than some games actually being sold on Steam?