KRONOSDOUBLE Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 It would be a cool to be able to alter terrain in the game, similar to minecraft. It would be cool to be able to make custom bases underground or build your own hill to build on top of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator Joebl0w13 Posted January 17, 2021 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted January 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, KRONOSDOUBLE said: It would be a cool to be able to alter terrain in the game, similar to minecraft. It would be cool to be able to make custom bases underground or build your own hill to build on top of. The building system in 7 Days to Die was a lot of fun that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaProiettile Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Terraforming isn't officially supported in Unreal Engine 4. The devs would need to employ a lot of hacks to make it work. The other issue and one that effects all terraforming games is file size. The more holes people dig the bigger the world map becomes. Do people joining a server really want to download several hundred MB everytime they join? I've played other games that allow terraforming and their usual solution to world sizes that get too big is to hit the reset button... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator Joebl0w13 Posted January 18, 2021 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted January 18, 2021 7 minutes ago, ForzaProiettile said: Terraforming isn't officially supported in Unreal Engine 4. The devs would need to employ a lot of hacks to make it work. The other issue and one that effects all terraforming games is file size. The more holes people dig the bigger the world map becomes. Do people joining a server really want to download several hundred MB everytime they join? I've played other games that allow terraforming and their usual solution to world sizes that get too big is to hit the reset button... Yup. It’s a shame. Good fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRONOSDOUBLE Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 1 hour ago, ForzaProiettile said: Terraforming isn't officially supported in Unreal Engine 4. The devs would need to employ a lot of hacks to make it work. The other issue and one that effects all terraforming games is file size. The more holes people dig the bigger the world map becomes. Do people joining a server really want to download several hundred MB everytime they join? I've played other games that allow terraforming and their usual solution to world sizes that get too big is to hit the reset button... Will ark continue using unreal engine 4? Or will they upgrade to unreal engine 5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator Joebl0w13 Posted January 18, 2021 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted January 18, 2021 45 minutes ago, KRONOSDOUBLE said: Will ark continue using unreal engine 4? Or will they upgrade to unreal engine 5? More to come on that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkInSA Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 On 1/18/2021 at 5:08 AM, Joebl0w13 said: Terraforming isn't officially supported in Unreal Engine 4. The devs would need to employ a lot of hacks to make it work. Accepted - but it don't detract from the beauty of the suggestion! This would be BRILLIANT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaProiettile Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 On 1/30/2021 at 5:45 PM, DirkInSA said: Accepted - but it don't detract from the beauty of the suggestion! This would be BRILLIANT! Maybe so but its a just a pipe dream that will never happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwertymine Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Technical issues aside, I'm still not certain about this. It could potentially be a nightmare for balancing and overall gameplay, especially for PvP. And I can already see how many meshing methods could come out of a system like this, especially once you get bigger caves that fliers can get into. I think they'd have to be very careful with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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