Snapping Tool, Adding Explosions, Weapons Loadout - How to Use the Far Cry 5 Map Editor on PC

[@Bjornieman]

From what I've noticed, the hexagon with four lines to the side indicates a physics-enabled object and a hexagon with a peace sign on it indicates a breakable object. Also, there's an entire Explosives category in the editor (I think it's under Gameplay category or in a separate one entirely), so you can blow shit up to your heart's content.

[@peelypeelmeister6432]

I'm making a map at the moment. I've hidden explosive devices such as BOMBS in the palm trees to create an Apocalypse Now type fire ball through the tree line, looks awesome. Keep a look out for it, it's called "fire in my hole". not yet published.

[@SpaceTh1ef]

What is it in interested to see your build

[@lwaves]

Thanks for covering the snapping tool, I was wondering how that worked as it will be invaluable to me.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Sure thing! It's made life for me so much evil. Special props to Undead Indigo for pointing it out to me.

[@deathwing5656]

Loving the videos man! Definitely helping me out in my own map projects keep up the awesome work

[@VegetarianZombie]

Thanks so much - it's been a blast! :D

[@aidanfilby8824]

Started my first map today and these tutorials have been great. Coming from halo 5 forge and hoping to get really involved with this community.

[@VegetarianZombie]

That's awesome . congrats man - creating is a thrill. I look forward to checking it out.

[@Andy2090]

Loving these videos. Looking forward to making some of my own, looks so fun to do.

[@Lino9026]

@VegetarianZombie You can clone your selection easily by holding shift and dragging from any of the axis arrows. Makes the whole work flow much faster.

[@benharkin4909]

Question, is it possible to edit the NPCs loadouts? Cause I want to make a WW1 map with everyone having the 308 carbine.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Hi Rick, certain npcs will carry certain weapons, but I've found they often switch, depending on the ai. I'm afraid that's about the extent of it so far.

[@Birtie1]

Perhaps you could just get unarmed enemies then they might pick up any weapon you place

[@christianingersoll3581]

Hey I'm on ps4 do you know if there is any way to snap on consoles or is it pc only

[@rip-yo-toodoolesjack773]

Christian Ingersoll same problem on xbox i can't find the option

[@gagegames5029]

They done fucked up and didn't include it on console. The options are lacking. Its sad

[@VIP_World]

You can use the longer way, which is clicking square on an object to open up the coordinates. Have been doing this with my maps, and it works just the same, if not better than the snapping tool

[@VegetarianZombie]

Ughh, that's maddening. The best thing to do is to post on the ubisoft forum and let them know.

[@dra6o0n]

Ask them to allow KB+M support for the editor maybe.

[@tonyp5689]

Loving the tutorials, I was wondering if you've found any tricks to make AI reliably use vehicles? I've managed to get them to use helicopters by stranding them on an island, but I can't seem to get them to use boats at all.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Not yet, Tony P - it's probably the most often requested feature with the editor.

[@TheAndroidBluejay]

Hello mate, do you know of a way I can edit the weapons that are placed in the level, it only gives you the option to modify the weapons in the loadout, which is a bit frustrating as I wanted a selection of suppressed handguns so the player could discover them during the level I was making... Many thanks

[@briangateley5580]

I might be wrong but the last time there was a snap tool for far cry was far cry 2 I really wish consoles had it

[@MegaTeeruk]

These videos are great, subscribed. Its very hard to find videos insturctions on this. Would you happen to know anything about the memory meter on the map editor on console? It seems to fill up very fast. I have 3 empty houses and its already at 40%.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Hi Brandon - thank you for the sub! Welcome to the community. My only guess is that consoles are pretty memory constrained which is why its filling up so fast. Of course, different houses may provide different memory footprints. My guess is that these houses can be entered by the player? If the houses are just for decoration, try to find houses that player's can't enter. That should lower the memory footprint substantially. I hope that helps!

[@jcpython]

Great videos! I really hate map editing on xbox cause it lacks a lot of extras such as a search feature for assets. Im thinking of buying another copy of fc5 for my pc just for making my maps. Question... would it be possible for me to access my maps via xbox and pc if im using the same Microsoft account? I wanna make my maps on pc and play them on xbox.

[@VegetarianZombie]

I'm glad it helped. I don't think the maps are cross platform. I think you'll need to recreate from scratch.

[@DrakeKazmierczak]

Can you adjust the player's starting health?

[@christianbethel]

Is this available on console as well?

[@jx592]

If theres a sniper in an inaccessible place best believe there is a visible red barrel to level him

[@matthewmickles1997]

How do you put a gun in the map that the players can't pick up. Example a replica hanging on the wall, but you don't want the players to use it. Or can you? I'm also on a console?

[@VegetarianZombie]

Check out the object library - there may be decorative guns in there. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you could do. In a traditional game engine, you could put colliders around the gun the prevent the player from touching it, but the map maker is somewhat limited.

[@matthewmickles1997]

VegetarianZombie unless I'm missing something from overload of searching i haven't seen any, & good idea i didn't think about a barrier or something to prevent them from touching it thanks for that insight. That was just my example. My actual objective is to not have people grab Barry's replica magnum in the stars office. Yes i said Barry & stars office in the same sentence. Hope to have the map ready by next week.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Matthew Mickles Yeah, you could position things in front of it to prevent people from snatching it, but make sure to test all the sneaky ways that players will try to reach it. In any case, good luck and drop a link to your map here when you are done with it. Cheers!

[@matthewmickles1997]

VegetarianZombie more or less fighting clipping issues right now just wish they had an option fix all this part sucks in map editor.

[@dra6o0n]

The copy-paste clipboard function is very limited, it would be nice if they allowed you to save preset selection of objects to copy and paste onto a map. So you can do stuff like making a pallet that holds ammo so you can avoid triggering 'map errors' when ammo and certain items are too close to the ground. Or other objects being too close and disallows your validation, and you have hundreds of them laying about and can't delete them all.

[@VegetarianZombie]

Yeah, I'll need to get a list together of improvements for this editor. There's a few quality of life improvements that would make it much better.

[@felixwilliams9550]

My map is called the barnyard

[@cappasgtgaming]

Validation Duplicate loadout name found ? I have one loadout, named Classic, DeathMatch. any ideas ?

[@sadmane5447]

The other 3 loadouts are likely all called empty

[@DJODJOMusic]

the snap tool should be on console too i remember it being in Far Cry 2

[@Dylankeddie]

They had snapping mode in far cry 1 on the original Xbox but not On Xbox 1??good damn ubi

[@jerboa4090]

I'm 99% sure that far cry 1 had no arcade you fucking dumbass

[@thegaminggamer9157]

how do you put AI,s in cars

[@VegetarianZombie]

As far as I know - you can't. The AIs will choose vehicles if the like. Hopefully, that will change.

[@daleprice3998]

I have added 16 new maps My user name is blackwellok My latest being junk town is has been played 508 time in 48 hours which makes me happy to see people are enjoying the map

[@gamingtime1543]

HE DOESN'T TELL YOU TO NAME OR LABEL A LOADOUT EVERY TIME THAT I TRIED TO NAME A LOADOUT IT WILL SAY INVALID NAME FAILED PROFANITY CHECK

[@libertyordeathfjb1618]

Yeah, I get that sometimes too when trying to name loadouts. The other day I was trying to make a TDM map with the following loadouts: 1: "Terrorists: Assault" 2: "Terrorists: CQB" 3: "HRT: Assault" 4: "HRT: CQB" Of course "terrorist" is profanity for some reason. So, I postponed that map until I can come up with a better loadout name than "Bad Guys: CQB". I'm annoyed bc it kinda ruined the entire theme of my map.