Real world landscapes in UE4 using heightmaps (Terrain party alternative)

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In this episode were taking real world landscapes and importing them to unreal engine using height maps. A great source for these is terrain party, but its not always working, so here we use an alternative Tangrams heightmapper.

Height maps are greyscale images that use their intensity to display elevation gradients. We can use these images in UE4, and use the world composition editor to create massive detailed landscapes with minimal effort.

[BerserkPk]

I like how you don't assume everyone knows what you're talking about. Very well done tutorials.

[vishiousvish]

thx for the video it 's a treasure *-*

[Cpt.Tripps]

What is the heightmap resolution (meter per pixel) that this tool can obtain?

[felixmikolai]

hello sir i got a problem, i use a big landscape with 64 parts and my height seems to be messed up, their sorted correctly but some parts are lower or higher then others.. how can i fix this issue ?! <3

[hamsa]

is there a website you can get largescale heightmaps of countrys?

[ИгорьБолдарев-мэ]

Good afternoon, thank you for the videos and for the useful sites. Only I have a question, why use GIMP, cut the photo into 4 parts? I took the height map from tangrams and added it to the unreal, played with the scale there, and that's it. So will the terrain be more detailed, or why?

[felixmikolai]

If I understood this correctly, I have to scale my whole game smaller just to get bigger mountains?! What a mess..

[johngreen]

landscape in unreal 5 still sucks. it use greyscale in a relative/artistic way, and can not obtain the accurate elevation in real world data, like geotiff.