Procedural generate, edit & simulate landscapes in less than 10 minutes for artists and non-artists.
Overview: YouTube
Tutorials: YouTube
Ultimate Landscape is a plugin solution that provides a set of tools to generate & simulate landscapes within the UE4 editor without any other external applications.
The ultimate Landscape plugin is made for both Artists and Non-Artists people to generate their stunning landscapes in less than 10 minutes.
Suitable to create realistic, fantasy, top-down, and any other types of landscapes.
UL provides two new types of assets in the UE4 editor to create layers and then merge them inside modifiers.
You can delete these assets after sculpting the landscape and you don't need them to share or package the project.
Live landscape sculpting in modifier editor.
Blend heightmap layers using more than 18 different effects.
5 methods to generate height maps including importing from other software or editing any existing UE4 landscapes.
Flexible settings to generate an unlimited variety of height maps.
Apply multiple erosion effects on the landscape to makes it more natural.
Create unlimited sub-layers inside each layer file or filter them individually.
Heightmap editing tools in the editor such as Smoothing, Brightness, Contrast, and etc.
Single-click to export Height maps or Erosion masks from the plugin as a PNG file.
Fast speed generating height maps algorithms.
Optimization options to improve user experience.
Features:
C++ Files : 67
Supported Development Platforms:
Windows: Yes
Mac: Yes
Documentation: YouTube
Important/Additional Notes:
Fully built in C++
This plugin is made to use inside UE4 editor and you can't sculpt landscape during game-play.
Includes materials and skies from Unreal Engine 4 demo assets.
If you're using older versions of UE4 just generate your height maps in newer versions then export it as a PNG file from modifiers and import to your landscape.
If you experienced any crash you've two different methods to fix (One of them should be enough):
1- Disable the "Show Preview"
2- Enable "Store Raw Data"