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Creating landscapes

Creating landscapes

If you want to create larger worlds in Unreal Engine, you may want to consider landscape. Now, landscape allows you to create large amounts of terrain and sculpt that terrain using interactive tools, and it's a great way to create very large worlds. So let's take a look at landscape mode. So we're in selection mode right now. I'm going to pull this down and select landscape. And when I do, it assumes that we're going to create a landscape. And it kind of gives you a little bit of a green proxy here that tells you what the landscape will look like. So we can give it a basic material. Now I'm going to use a material that I've created here called, let's just search for landscape material. Here it is. It's called Landscape_Mat. And so it should be, basically it's just green grass. And then under here, we have the location. So if we want, we can type in a location for the terrain. I can also interactively move that proxy to wherever I want. And then we also have the size of the terrain…

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