UE4 Level Design Tutorial for Massive Open World Map

Today we are going to talk about UE4 level design and creating a massive open world map. I'll share my experience and 3 tips that will help you get started.
If you want to learn more about how to make a massive open world map in Unreal Engine 4, leave a comment and I'll be happy to make a follow up video.

Unreal Engine 4 Landscape Technical Guide:

Welcome to Upside Down - the channel for those who are interested in 3D Art.
I'm Stefan Ivanov, a professional 3D Artist with more than 10 years of game development experience. I am here to share my knowledge, show you how to model using the latest tools and software and give you some hints how to improve your process.

🢂 Join this channel to get access to perks: ►
🢂 My Workstation:
► HP Z4 G4 WKS
► CPU: Intel Xeon W-2295, 18 core, 3.0GHz
► RAM: 64GB DDR4 2933
► GPU: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 16GB
► SSD: 1TB
► HDD: 4TB

#UE4 #LevelDesign #UnrealEngine4

[Lusiogenic]

There aren't a lot of videos explained like this on this subject.
Great to see the thought process behind it.

[randigtschackspel]

Thanks for great videos! I think a video series about creating a simple open world game from scratch would be awesome!

[dropcheck]

Would like to see a demo of the tool you were talking about. Or a tut on how to make something like it. Great videos on the open world theme. Keep going!

[HekpomaHka]

I like to see that tool too. I already brought several land auto materials and noone fit my needs :) so i came into decision that have to understand how is working and find a way to create own . Such a tutorial will be a helpful for me and i am sure for lots of people . Btw there is not much of videos that cover so in depth such a topics so big admirations for your job and keep doing it !

[dragonsouldevlog]

Keep making open world videos they are great!

[migi]

Can you also talk about the light baking in big maps like this ?

[voiceovernomad]

I'm trying to do research to make a map in Unreal, and have NEVER done any of this before. I have some prior Blender knowledge (that I know is non-translatable here) but none in using Unreal itself. I will be putting together a documentation - and besides looking up tutorials and not having actually opened the engine yet I am working on this list to hammer out map elements and design. I'm not so much trying to 'design a game' as I am 'design/build a world'. Will be referring to your videos for expertise, and if anyone is interested in possibly working with me on this (NON-PROFIT, FOR FUN) in a capacity that you may hold more knowledge on certain subjects then me, I would be more then happy to discuss things with you. I joined the UE discord as well but things are a bit deep and fast paced there for someone as new as myself.

In your opinion, what do you believe is the best method for making a large (5x5k or more) Open world map, where the only instanced loads are say- dungeons? I.E. you can go anywhere else seemlessly, but when you get into a dungeon, you'd go through a big door- load.

[GateGaming]

Great content, keep up the open world videos they are great!

[MH-dfrl]

Great job keep going ! Hope to see an open world video series soon ! :)

[sbnewsom]

Excellent video. I def would love to see more open world tutorials. I’d also love to see how master materials are set up for the grand scheme of things. Like does every object share the same master or should certain objects use a different master...especially the best way to do it in an open world scenario. Thanks UD! :)

[migi]

Pls make a video about the tool, how to make it !!

[felixmikolai]

Ps: just blockout first so ur char fits in the scene.

[necromansir]

Thanks, I hope you will make more video even though I pay for it.

[antonioscott]

Haven't checked your video playlist yet to see if you made that Tool video. It would save a lot of time, and probably should be the first thing a level/environment artist creates before starting the terrain/world work. I am working on creating a digital twin of my city to use in Bus Simulator 21 Mod. The terrain is not coming in for me. I have a DXF file of the regions roads, rails, water and shore line that I thought I could just use the splines to create automatic roads for me. That didn't work. So I downloaded 1km map that came in layers with the bottom layer being the Topography. So now I was thinking that I could use Houdini to recognize either the DXF Roads, or the DXF file containing the Area Map with Topography. Do you have a suggestion for making this work? I need the roads to be navigable. Would it be easier to put a nav mesh on the roads and stitch the topography layers together in 3DS Max or Houdini?

[rosdragneel]

I can't find your open world creation video can u provide a link...how to create open world in UE4 that's the one I can't find

[octaviosilva]

Brother, for God's sake change the background music. 🤣🤣

[jaywest]

Hey can you make a massive open work for a pubg mobile style game

[path]

It's a map tutorial, but he just kept talking about mops. So confused. Now I need to figure out how to have a huge single shard map in an online game. Even worse... a browser game. The mop... I mean map... will have to be procedural, I guess.