The editor's existing support for image-based importing has been converted to use this interface and is fully supported. Landscape layers can be imported from external programs via implementation of the ILandscapeHeightmapFileFormat and ILandscapeWeightmapFileFormat interfaces. Which can be used customize the look and feel of your Landscape. Landscape layers are special textures that can contain both heightmaps and color data. Believe me this is the easiest way, otherwise you’ll have to download plenty of softwares and do above process manually.If this is your first time using the Landscape tools, you might want to check out the Landscape Overviewfirst.

It’ll download a zip file containing your heightmap. After selection press the download button on top right and give your map a name when prompted. It is better if you can select a island or something like that. There are many methods to generate heightmaps, but the easiest is by using terrain.party Go to terrain.party and select the location you want to import.

Generate a heightmap of the desired location.

Importing real life location is a 3 step process Enough with that, let’s move on to the task on hand. Heightmap is an image used to store surface elevation information. How to do that you may wonder, worry not, for this, i’m using heightmaps.

Like in the title says, today i’m going to tell you about how to import a real world map or a location into your unreal engine 4 project. Well, after a long time started blogging again. Import real-life locations to an Unreal project

Unreal engine heightmap download