#7 Using Height Maps to Create Landscapes in UE4 | Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial for Beginners

In this part of my Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial for Beginners, I'll show you how you can use height maps to quickly create vast and detailed landscapes in Unreal Engine.

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[acenicholas]

Things I love about his tuts, is that I can also learn british slang. Gonna enroll on Patreon soon <3

[Supernova]

Fyi, its really easy to make a heightmap in photoshop. Just make a 16 bit greyscale image at the start. and remember, white = height, black = flat. Use different brushes....Save image, and voila! A heightmap!

[Normalizing-polyamory]

Little endian is the order that integers appear in memory. The least significant byte of, for example, a four byte integer would appear in the first byte position and the most significant byte would appear in the fourth position, ordered from least significant to most significant. The same for an 8 byte integer except the most significant byte would appear in the 8th position.

[samohickey]

So, I used to have a persistent level set up with a 9x9 grid of different landscapes and level streaming volumes pertaining to each of them. Worked well performance-wise, but my next step was to try and export them in order to make one large low-poly mesh which I would put into my persistent level as always-visible as a.. well, for the horizon line basically. ;)
Is your heightmap, being large, better optimized than my system ya think? Would it be worth taking a height map .png, cutting that into multiple .pngs, and importing them as separate landscapes for level streaming?
You're giving me so many ideas but I'm scared. Hahah! I guess I'll have to try it out.

[MaxiCrows]

Hi thanks for the tutorials they are very good, and i want to know if its possible to anímate this heightmap, maybe with blueprint? I will wait your reply thanks

[burger]

How many episodes do you reckon you'll be making? I just want to know how much info I can expect. I'll probably buy the books too but I like these step by step visual guides a bit better. I'm planning to stick with this for some time and have it as a bit of an intellectual hobby alongside my college education so I really hope you'll carry on making great content. :) good luck

[mr.inconspicuous]

So, what do you do when you've got a space game?
What terrain do u use? Or is it only meshes that are imported?

[AadityaMankarXv]

Isn't that the heightmap of "Tamriel"?

[manvendrasiwatch]

pls suggest a site for a free height map

[aoboston]

Hey i cant find any hightmaps all that happens is a bunch of spikes

[burger]

any tips on how I could find my own height map? I'm very new to this whole thing.

[ravnOne]

Hi There, is the files at gumroad for free? it was kinda strange because it said 10 us but i was not charged anything

[madbrad]

How can I delete the previous map after importing a new one :(

[alexanderkazarinhelboe]

i cant find any other heightmaps can somebody please help me!

[euko]

Anyone have a good place to find a free heightmap?

[safewavesaudio]

it's gonna look tits hahaha.. great vid.

[retro_warrior]

I can’t find any 16 bit grayscale png that not a Trojan or a virus, no biggie my butt!

[muhammadabdurrehman]

plz suggest a site for a free height map