How to bring the entire WORLD into Unreal Engine 5 - Cesium Tutorial

This is how I used Cesium to import the entire Earth into Unreal Engine 5. I originally talked about this in previous videos where I was preparing to rebuild Peterborough in UE5. After countless hours trying to manually scan, optimize, and import pieces from Google Earth, I discovered Cesium and wanted to share how I set it up.

It uses Google Map Tiles API, essentially bringing all of Google Earth into Unreal. In case you were wondering, yes I took all those pictures in the thumbnail using this tool.

Paste this into the URL section as mentioned in the video. Replace MapsAPIKey with your own key.

0:50 - Installing Cesium
2:10 - Google Cloud setup
4:02 - Using Cesium
8:35 - Playing your world

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[shhhhdigital]

Awesome tutorial Matt! Its well laid out and easy to follow. I managed to get this up and going in minutes thanks to you. You probably saved many of us a great deal of hours doing this on our own. Thanks again! 😊

[scobelverse]

Great job I’m on a similar path. Two issues I keep coming across I’m curious if you’ve figured out.

1) How to prevent Cesium from ever reloading the tiles after they’ve loaded and cached the first time?

2) How to convert the tiles to a real landscape to interact with water simulations?

[smithy]

A lot more followers coming your way with such quality content

[gunterstunter]

Great tutorial by the way, it would be awesome to have more of these!

[FeltBored]

This is so underrated, I love this video and you now have a new subscriber!

[abhisheknandi]

Thanks for the step you mentioned for enabling the map api

[chagaze]

Very cool! You got a new follower ! Eager to test it 😉

[liteglow]

It is awesome for large area architect design.

But for level design om the street/houses, There is not enough pixels to make it playable.

I use to import DTM Height map files that I convert to greyscale.
Then load into unreal, and start to build my map from there.

I add grass, sand, Stones, roads, houses and so on.

[melonvideomix]

Great video and really interesting that it is possible to bring Google maps into Unreal Engine .. Keep up the great work ..

[califromnewyork]

You should come to the ROOF TOPS & ALLEYS scene this idea would be great.

[ChronozNL]

If I only use the Google Maps tiles add-on from the marketplace, is there no hidden fee or something for using their data? It says free up to $300 of usage per month. But how is usage accounted for? I don't want to see a charge from Google on my Creditcard next month 😅

[vfghju]

How do I fix my textures that come in horrible

[Nnamdxxx]

Area on Google Maps has to be in 3D for this to work. My home town is not yet 3D but a City North of me is. So all I can do with my home city is maybe use it in a fly over.

[yjeebji]

Are the buildings modifiable? Can you go inside buildings? Or delete some?

[Hi-diot]

Would it be possible to import parts of the world into unreal editor for Fortnite?

[GamingInTheFASTLANE]

Nice work . Br great if it was possible to drive a car round your own city .

[LanD_]

I placed the cube but nothing appears when I start the game I am placed on the cube but the card does not appear and if I get off the cube I am in a vacuum ....

[real_canada]

there is some brightness issue, It's too bright to see the actual map, how to adjust it?

[bsides]

how did you make the map visible in the editor, I can only see it when I play the level.

[trbopwr]

How accurate are the elevation contours