World Creator to Unreal Engine Plugin Tutorial

In this quick tutorial I outline the steps needed to utilize the World Creator 2022.2 to Unreal Engine Plugin, using a stock landscape from World Creator. I'll also take a look at performance and the difference between using WC textures and implementing a premade landscape material from Brushify.io. I made this tutorial because of a comment made on an earlier video asking about the WC/UE plugin...which I hadn't heard of until yesterday. Thanks for the comment!

[@sp_arc]

its not free

[@omgitsbats]

Is there any other interactivity besides import/export? Can I control height-map generation with Blueprints for example?

[@reachingeric]

Wait, put it in the "proper folder...." where exactly is that? can you be more specific?

[@Douye_Adedeji2696]

Good day everyone. I need help with correcting something. I installed the bridge addon for World Creator in Unreal Engine 5.3 to import my terrain, but when I click on synchronise, it only imports a black plane. I'd like to know why this happens and how I can correct it. Thank you as I await your response.
Note: I do synchronise also from World Creator.

[@Animaxdesigngroup]

Hi.. so do you have to copy the WC Bridge into every UE5 project that you create? Or can it be directly into the UE5 install directory?

[@MrLarsalexander]

I have always got the best quality heightmaps when exporting as .R16 (RAW16)
PNG always give me low res exports that look like minecraft maps. But RAW workes really good....
And i think UE5.3 now supports 32bit. BMP image import now supports 16 and 32 bit bitmaps and most advanced formats.
Not sure if / when R32 (RAW32-bit) will come. Or PNG 32-bit for grayscaled heightmaps, and satellite / colormapping

[@abeblue]

Imported with no materials... any help ? Its all blank, i see the materials but it stays all neutral..

[@GrayMotion]

Only black plane is imported. Any help here?

[@MG_3D]

Have you checked your height map? You might just be exporting a flat plane.

[@GrayMotion]

@@MG_3D Thanks for quick response sir. Inside the Sync folder there is a height map but I cannot open a RAW file that WC created and I do have the xml file that shows coordinates . I'll run it from scratch. I might be doing something wrong. Thanks again.

[@MrLarsalexander]

And your colormap landscape texture is really nice to use as global texture for distance blending on all layers. Then use weightmaps /heatmaps / Splatmap to define the areas for each landscape material layer based on the slope/flow/hills and also by color of the colormap...

[@yessnowww5345]

On ne sais plus s'inscrire sur le site de Worldcretor... donc impossible de récupéré le plugin, : Avez vous une autres sources pour le plugin ? svp

[@denisvisker2851]

very nice tutorial bul i can not figure out how to make brushify grass work with pathtracer in viewport or render.. it works in lit mode but disapears when i use PT

[@veith3dclub]

Thank you for making the video! Which size had your landscape?

[@oliverricardobisbalmompo2110]

Thanks for the tutorial. You have been very helpful! Greetings from Spain!

[@윤재혁-r5b]

cool tutorial thx!

[@skate6]

i thought these land tools could place foliage, so you need a auto material instead?

[@MG_3D]

You can place foliage as well. Go to foliage mode, add static meshes and paint them right on the landscape.

[@daddyfox7078]

hello which grass you use?

[@MG_3D]

The grass in the demo is part of the Brushify.io landscape material. You can find the material on the Epic Market. Cheers!

[@chadgtr34]

will you be able to test 1000 km x 20 km of area?

[@MG_3D]

I don’t see why not.

[@chadgtr34]

@@MG_3D can i share our asset with you a 150 km long map ?

[@smepable]

Looks great

[@teknikaldiffikulty]

it isnt free or is it because ive seen this before and you have to purchase it

[@MG_3D]

Hi. Yes World Creator is a paid software. You can use Gaea which I believe is free. I've used it before and it is really good. I use WC because I like some of the features and ease of use.

[@samuelkilik8233]

@@MG_3D can you share the plugins 😅

[@dongraparesh]

​@@samuelkilik8233 👍☺️☺️

[@MG_3D]

@@samuelkilik8233 hey there! The plug-in can be downloaded from the world creator website.

[@MetalGearMk3]

Nanite landscape is coming in 5.3 which should improve performance even more.

[@nfrancisj2122]

thanks for sharing!

[@MG_3D]

My pleasure!

[@brokentoes6721]

Can you implement footprints or reactive grass as well?

[@DavesChaoticBrain]

I'm pretty sure UE 5.1 enabled Nanite for terrains. How's that behave?

[@davidenglish790]

If only it can easily do Configurable path and road I pay any money

[@chocoboestudios]

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[@Crouton_6]

There’s lots of free tools or cheap tools for that, it’s also pretty easy to make your own