These vids are by far the best on the net right now for ark dev kit tutorials, i am making the map i have waned too since they released the dev kit and because of you i can now understand what i am doing XD
This has helped me so much, its amazing, thank you. I wasted so many hours on other tutorials I found that gave me headache and so many unnecessary tasks to basically achieve what you showed us in 5 minutes. Nice easy step by step guide, love it!
2021 and I have finally gotten a computer that can handle the dev kit. I'm completely tech illiterate but I love map making of all kinds. Thank you for making a tutorial I can follow! Let's hope it works the same after 5 years!!
If DevKit Crashes on creation of the new island - which happened to me - it helps to make the light source invisible (click on the eye) and it allows you to create the island.
Fabulous job man, I have a hard time with youtube demos because of the amount of trash uploaded these days, but you're coherent, knowledgeable and pleasant to watch, taking the viewer's time into account and explaining the mechanics of just enough so we do our own exploration within the kit. Fabulous series yo.
Wow!!! Finally, we have a winner folks!!! You Rock TheDonkyBoy!! Thank you so very much for making a smart, sensible, to the point and easily understandable tutorial on the ark dev kit. As DiraSupia stated, I too have been wanting to create a map for this game and now with your tutorials it looks like that just might be possible!! Thank you for stepping up where so many have just given up!! And... Please dont give up like all the other creators have!! If you keep making vids/tutorials on how to create a map with the dev kit, I will keep watching. I just subed and I'm looking forward to watching your content and learning all you can teach.
I see this as posted 6y ago, but it still works like a charm:D THANKYOU for making this easy-to-understand tutorial, man! I am so glad you did! Respect
Hey guys! If you guys want a fix(probably temporary, yet to encounter problems) for the crashing when you create the landscape. On the top right. Youll see a list of what's spawned in. You'll see light source. Normally. Others will tell you to turn it off by clicking the eye. Do not do that as you will not be able to see what you are doing. Instead. Delete it. Then where you search for post processing youll search for DirectionalLight. Drag that in. Its a good alternative. And fixed my problems
Great guide. Are you intending on making an updated series for the new ark devkit in ue5? I am really interested in how i would bring in terrains and maps i have already made into the devkit. All the best!
Not lightning sorry, i mean lighting, it goes lighting, static mesh actor, physics, collision, proxy mesh, rendering, physics volume, component, replication, tags, actor, blueprint and transform, theres no landscape
Yes. Clear and concise instruction. I'll be keeping my eye open for new tutorials from you. I'll soon be looking to combine ruins with a redwood biome for a nice stealthy pvp environment. :-)
When working on the ocean terrain on the devkit I ran into an issue, as a certain point the terrain cannot be stretched downwards, I was wondering if there is a setting that controls this, or if I have to cut up the landscape and move part of it down.
LOADS better than the other guy I was watching. He just skipped over certain details and thus, ended up not working because of it. This I can work with. Thank you.
Hey doneky, i was wondering, how do you make the more intricate objects like then natural structures for example. Lets say the crazy mesas or the cliff area in then island where the dirty lake is, near the green obelisk.
@TheDonkeyBoy how would the beginning of this differ for creating a floating island addition to one of the maps like The Center or The Island? Do you still create the painted level, even if you are just going to be using meshes like rocks to create the area?
You don't have to paint it, if you're going to be covering it in other meshes then the paint makes no difference. If I were you then I would paint it, just to make sure that if a mesh doesn't load in, or your levels are taking more time to load in than usual you aren't just left with a huge black zone
to install the device the place of the torch, and pressing the button on the console - the anchor makes a punch without a rider, thus you can sit down on the ketz in the hands of ankhi and collect resources playing alone.
this was probably the most well spoken beginners tutorial ive found great work, I do have one question though about the painting materials, how would I go about using some of the materials found in the Scorched Earth map? as well as snow? doesnt seem to be any way to add new layers of materials to use, I would be fine even swapping out some materials if there is a limit such as the black sands materials I have no use for in my map Thanks a lot!
CaseFace5 Thank you! If you go to one of my more recent videos - one of them is painting the snow layer. In the comments there is a link to a new landscape material that will allow you to use all painting materials
Hey there. I know its quite late to your video. Is there any chance you could troubleshoot a quick problem i have when exporting .fxb animations using the old ark dev kit please?
Hey man thanks for these amazing tutorials I'm going to make sure to give you credit when I make my map, hopefully it'll become a popular map and if it does your channel will grow
This layer has no layer info assigned yet. You must create or assign a layer info before you can paint this layer. What is this and how do you fix it????
Just use the anchovies diving under the water in the caves for more production as now there are more and more mod cards with caves of iron oil and so on under water
A tip for anyone crashing after creating a new material with MI_NewIsland: Check the eye icon next to Light Source on the right side of your dev kit to turn off lighting. That will stop it from crashing.
heyy, i love your toturials, but i wnna kno how to add an new brush texture, like sand or snow. maybe you can explain or make a little toturial of it, that would be awesome !!!!
for anki, I'm playing alone. For the most part in a single player game, and each time you have to run from the dino to the dino. That would be great to use ankylo as a bud then playing together, that is, to beat the lockaw from the console in hand by sitting on the ketz and holding the anchi in the paws ...
Im trying to install the editor my ark GAME is on my e drive from steam but when i try to install the EDITOR on the d drive it says it needs space for 320GB!!!! HELP ME PLZ!!!
so what do I need to make my PC not freeze so often? A better processor? like who has time to wait 10-30 mins for something to finish loading in for the action you just did? I ended process when it said not responding for more than 5 mins today.. how can anyone make anything if it does that from every simple thing u create?
Question for you. if I want to make a bigger map then what you are showing in the video, do I need to set the location variable (located in the transform tab under details) higher than 100 x 100? I can't seem to find any info in the documentation that gives any explanation as to what the location variable actually does.
You don't want top change the transform as that's position in the world. You could try scaling it, but I'm pretty sure that it would make your textures all wonky. I suppose you could just use multiple landscapes, but bear in mind you'll probably be going over the maximum size that wildcard would reccomend, so you may encounter some performance issues.
I was hoping you were going to say that, because I was definitely dealing with performance issues, mainly ue4 gobbling up all my ram and crashing the editor. Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it!!
Can you make a tutorial over how to create a mission? like a deathmatch or conquest? im not a programmer so i need something to hold on, and learn from.
The Isle is thusfar the only game (that I personally know about) where you have to get a key from the devs personally to be able to mod it. Just mod Ark instead.
It seems that every time I click "create landscape", the editor will freeze and simply close down entirely. I've tried loading every asset in the game to see if it would do anything, but sadly not. anyone know how to fix this? Edit: If I click "fill world" it works (almost) fine. but if I don't click it then it will crash. I don't want to fill world so what is going on?
I had an issue where the editor would just close. No warnings, nothing. What fixed it for me, before you create world or anything like that, look in scene outliner and delete the 'light source' actor.
my problem was that when i clicked at create, dev kit would just freeze and close and what helped me was that when i created the new level, i chosed "empty level" and then it went fine.
My Dirt_Plane_NoHole shows up as solid black. How did you get yours looking like stand straight up? Also, my landscape is also black and won't let me paint terrain on it. I've followed along with your instructions step by step, but it doesn't work for me :(
Hi Great vid learn more here than anywhere, I'm just starting out and I cant paint either I see the circle and it changes when I set it to pattern and back but my mouse just wont grab it and move it around I must be doing somthing wrong but haven't found any simple answer searching around
+TheDonkeyBoy Great tutorials, they are super helpful for aspiring mapmakers like me, but I have an issue I don't know how to solve. When trying to sculpt the downwards areas, there is not enough material below it (Thickness). It looks like a gentle slope of a meter or two, instead of a drop like normal oceans. How do I solve this!
When I follow these steps the landscape has a checkered board like surface like chess and my sky is just white when I make new levels; how do I change these things to be the same as when you do it?
+NEUTR0NIC if you press new level you should have a BP_SkySphere in there already, if not then copy one in from TheIsland. If the landscape is checkered it means you haven't added the materials yet or it's compiling shaders
It's not that the Skysphere is missing, it's that it is not rendering in like it is in your video when creating a new level. Nor does it render anything in the test map.
v4.5.1-0+UE4. Downloaded two to three days ago. The sky renders similar to yours if I use BP_Sky_SphereOld, but BP_Sky_Sphere does not. I notice that the TestMapArea also uses Sky_SphereOld. I've tried removing and re-adding it to my project, but achieve the same results. Not show-stopping, as it seems that I should be able to easily change it later on without breaking anything once I learn what's happening. Thank you for putting these videos together. They are quite a notch above most of the other guides I've come across.
there is a console from the c4 there is a button, there is a saddle from the anchky there is an opportunity to install a torch, there is a scuba gear, and a player who sits on an anchor can beat resources ... how to force the anki to beat resources by pressing a button on the remote? and put the scuba diving on the saddle for the anchovy ...
The landscape texture MI_NewIsland wont let me paint on it. It doesn't show as black, instead as a grey checker pattern. When I try to paint nothing happens. :(
+Allied Shadow if all goes to plan there'll be a video out on that tomorrow. It's more complicated than the rest as MI_NewIsland doesn't have a preset layer for snow
TheDonkeyBoy Yup, found one that was good enough ''Mat_TheIsland'' The only bugs Im experincing right now is the water being green, and only three avaliable colors/things that I can paint with, the rest becomes the grey, white pixels thing.. But so far the tutorial has been great! AAND the foilage tool being buggy.
Hello good afternoon, I'm from Brazil, I don't know practically anything about this program and I don't understand much English and I'm wanting to learn how to use this program and mine doesn't show MI_NewIsland like yours
+Phenix mortel The dirt plane is there to act as a visual representation of a continuing ocean floor, but as long as you place your world border before the landscape ends then you don't need to make it block all.
Hi, I hope you still read the comments. I got a Problem i finished my sky, landscape, Ocean but when i hit Play my collision area is 186 Units above the Ground. i can build on it and walk on it but it just Looks stupid. Hope you can help me there. btw: really nice Videos i whatched them all and i learned so much from you. Thank you for that!!
Ok so everything else world fine but using MI_newisland_hole crashes my editor Everytime I use that material any tips for fixing or should I use another material instead ik I'm kind of late to the vid but first time ever using it lol
Lewis Palmer interesting. I’d recommend verifying your files in the epic games launcher or reinstalling, and if it carries on post in the moddig discord and see if anyone else has had that issue
TheDonkeyBoy I did all the steps in the video to what you had done, it just looks super different on mine and I have no clue why... is this an older version of the Dev Kit? Or is there another step I need to do?
+Ms PhoebeLouise This is a slightly older version but as far as I'm aware it hasn't changed that much. Do you have twitter? Tweet me a screenshot of you'd like and I'll have a look. @DonkeyBoyGames
Hey thanks for your videos, the videos are really the best i have seen yet! I follow all your tutorials, but I think it happened after the levels: when I am in the Playmode there are two landscapes?? although I have just one. When i use cheat fly I can fly higher and higher to the second landscape and the character can stand on it. But when I am in the Creatormode I cant the the second landscape above the other. And I have no light so that I have to use my torch :D I dont know what happened :S Hopefully you can understand what I mean
Is there anyway to do a video on doing snow? From what I have been reading on forums and even the comments here, It's seems to be a mystery to everybody but a select few, and those few aren't speaking up at all...
Ty much, I've been pulling my hair out for the last 6 hours trying to figure it out (I'm completely new to this whole thing) Most I have done is made maps in Halo and Farcry (old school one) and your tutorials have been helpful getting me started up.
Cry Gaming I suppose you could - but you'd be better off making a big landscape, then raising bits up for your islands. Check out the second one of these tutorials where I cover adding an ocean :)
Dude can u tell me how i can use more Foliage? xD I dont know how but if i use a Tree i have to delete it and replace another foliage? or i can use multiple and select it then?
+Cry Gaming You can drag more foliage meshes into the tool on the left, and set them all up just as you did for the first one. You can in theory paint on everything at once
Great video - authoritative and accessible this guy knows what he's doing and why. I watched a similar beginner's video from a different TH-camr and the guy not only mumbled but kept saying ' I don't know why it's doing that' which didn't give me much confidence to try it out. I subbed you instead!
help if i start ark Editor and wait and waiting 30min. and nothing happened, i watch log and some error like: cant find file for asset please help with this.
another tid-bit of information was that at the first time set up should warn people that it may take a bit to locate all assets which im getting so i cannot render much till everything is uploaded..
D Mithrandi make sure you hold down the mouse button for a while when you paint over another layer, as it takes a while to come through. And what do you mean change the landscape?
So the problem im facing is that my sky is completely white, and i have the Sky Sphere blueprint already. I don't know if its something on my end or if its just the shaders need to compile or whatever. Other than that this video was pretty good, keep up the good work!
Still seems to work in basic...but I cannot get the skybox textures to show up in a new map in the window. Also...the Universal Material stuff is no longer available in the link, but you can get it form the ArkDev Wiki page along with a link to a video to install and set it up. You have to make sure you have added the textures to the project to have them show up. So far so good. I have a map I can run around on. Now I'm off to Tutorial 2, to add water. I am lilking the tutorial so far, as it actually just shows you what to do, and seems to be avoiding the 'well..I don't know why...you just do' that a lot of other old tutorials have. Received wisdom as opposed to practical knowledge I guess. Would be great to see these updated to the current devkit versions.
These vids are by far the best on the net right now for ark dev kit tutorials, i am making the map i have waned too since they released the dev kit and because of you i can now understand what i am doing XD
+Geek With A Gun That's awesome! Thank you :)
How's the map??
This has helped me so much, its amazing, thank you. I wasted so many hours on other tutorials I found that gave me headache and so many unnecessary tasks to basically achieve what you showed us in 5 minutes. Nice easy step by step guide, love it!
Thank you! I'm glad to hear it's helped you out :D
2021 and I have finally gotten a computer that can handle the dev kit. I'm completely tech illiterate but I love map making of all kinds. Thank you for making a tutorial I can follow! Let's hope it works the same after 5 years!!
now good luck with aasa devkit
I appreciate this tutorial so much, I'm so excited to make my ideas come to life and I couldn't do it without your help!
If DevKit Crashes on creation of the new island - which happened to me - it helps to make the light source invisible (click on the eye) and it allows you to create the island.
Thank you, I had the same problem. No matter the size of the plane I tried to create, the devkit crashed on me.
Fabulous job man, I have a hard time with youtube demos because of the amount of trash uploaded these days, but you're coherent, knowledgeable and pleasant to watch, taking the viewer's time into account and explaining the mechanics of just enough so we do our own exploration within the kit. Fabulous series yo.
Thank you! Those are exactly the aims I had in mind when making the series :) Glad they're helping
Wow!!! Finally, we have a winner folks!!! You Rock TheDonkyBoy!! Thank you so very much for making a smart, sensible, to the point and easily understandable tutorial on the ark dev kit.
As DiraSupia stated, I too have been wanting to create a map for this game and now with your tutorials it looks like that just might be possible!! Thank you for stepping up where so many have just given up!! And...
Please dont give up like all the other creators have!! If you keep making vids/tutorials on how to create a map with the dev kit, I will keep watching. I just subed and I'm looking forward to watching your content and learning all you can teach.
Gamenicitii - Psylent Psyphrr thank you! I don't plan on giving up ;)
What a wonderful tutorial. You're a fantastic teacher. Thank you!
I see this as posted 6y ago, but it still works like a charm:D
THANKYOU for making this easy-to-understand tutorial, man! I am so glad you did! Respect
I just got the dev kit today and your tutorial definitely helped me out. thank you for this very easy to follow
One of the best tutorials I have ever seen. ty
If I klick create, my program crash... (2:35) (sorry for my english, I come from Germany)
go to light source and turn off atmospheric sun light
Thank you!
@@sevoski1603 thanks mate, I know this was a year ago, but you totally solved my first ever problem :)
@@indigowulf no problem
@Foxerion Thank you kindly good sir! Very good info.
Hey guys! If you guys want a fix(probably temporary, yet to encounter problems) for the crashing when you create the landscape. On the top right. Youll see a list of what's spawned in. You'll see light source. Normally. Others will tell you to turn it off by clicking the eye. Do not do that as you will not be able to see what you are doing. Instead. Delete it. Then where you search for post processing youll search for DirectionalLight. Drag that in. Its a good alternative. And fixed my problems
Thanks for the tip!
Great guide. Are you intending on making an updated series for the new ark devkit in ue5?
I am really interested in how i would bring in terrains and maps i have already made into the devkit.
All the best!
I love your videos and your voice makes it so easy to follow xD Thank you thank you thank you!
Lost Lunita Thank you!
even for a german who's learning english its easy to understand
another thing i just noticed, in the right hand tab at 4:47, you show a landscape option, i don't have that?
Open the Window dropdown at the top of the screen and you should be able to open it from there
what window?
Actually ignore me I misunderstood lol. If the landscape is selected you may need to expand that option from elsewhere in the list
i have lightning and below that there is no landscape :/
Not lightning sorry, i mean lighting, it goes lighting, static mesh actor, physics, collision, proxy mesh, rendering, physics volume, component, replication, tags, actor, blueprint and transform, theres no landscape
Yes. Clear and concise instruction. I'll be keeping my eye open for new tutorials from you. I'll soon be looking to combine ruins with a redwood biome for a nice stealthy pvp environment. :-)
Thanks! I'll try and get another uploaded tomorrow. Anything you particularly want to see? Or more landscape/map designing stuff?
Currently just looking at level design.. but eventually looking to fabricate custom creatures and AI.
Red Shamrock Working on the next landscape tutorial at the moment, just going through some computer problems!
When working on the ocean terrain on the devkit I ran into an issue, as a certain point the terrain cannot be stretched downwards, I was wondering if there is a setting that controls this, or if I have to cut up the landscape and move part of it down.
how much freedom do you have for a total conversion ? can you mess with code and or blueprints ?
LOADS better than the other guy I was watching. He just skipped over certain details and thus, ended up not working because of it.
This I can work with. Thank you.
Hey doneky, i was wondering, how do you make the more intricate objects like then natural structures for example. Lets say the crazy mesas or the cliff area in then island where the dirty lake is, near the green obelisk.
i wanna make it so all the eyes can see past the barrier is water what would i use?
Do you know how to use more then just the original paint textures? On the dnl one idk how to use more paint options :/
@TheDonkeyBoy how would the beginning of this differ for creating a floating island addition to one of the maps like The Center or The Island? Do you still create the painted level, even if you are just going to be using meshes like rocks to create the area?
You don't have to paint it, if you're going to be covering it in other meshes then the paint makes no difference. If I were you then I would paint it, just to make sure that if a mesh doesn't load in, or your levels are taking more time to load in than usual you aren't just left with a huge black zone
to install the device the place of the torch, and pressing the button on the console - the anchor makes a punch without a rider, thus you can sit down on the ketz in the hands of ankhi and collect resources playing alone.
this was probably the most well spoken beginners tutorial ive found great work, I do have one question though about the painting materials, how would I go about using some of the materials found in the Scorched Earth map? as well as snow? doesnt seem to be any way to add new layers of materials to use, I would be fine even swapping out some materials if there is a limit such as the black sands materials I have no use for in my map Thanks a lot!
CaseFace5 Thank you! If you go to one of my more recent videos - one of them is painting the snow layer. In the comments there is a link to a new landscape material that will allow you to use all painting materials
Hey there. I know its quite late to your video. Is there any chance you could troubleshoot a quick problem i have when exporting .fxb animations using the old ark dev kit please?
Hey man thanks for these amazing tutorials I'm going to make sure to give you credit when I make my map, hopefully it'll become a popular map and if it does your channel will grow
Thanks! Hopefully they help you out
TheDonkeyBoy What does compiling shaders mean? Also what can I contact you on to talk to you through text?
did u ever makei t?
This layer has no layer info assigned yet. You must create or assign a layer info before you can paint this layer. What is this and how do you fix it????
Can someone tell me if it is possible to make something smaller than 127x127 but larger than 63x63?
Just use the anchovies diving under the water in the caves for more production as now there are more and more mod cards with caves of iron oil and so on under water
Do you have any plans on going for ASA Devkit as well, would love this kind of tutorial for ASA also🤔
Yes!! Please!!!
A tip for anyone crashing after creating a new material with MI_NewIsland:
Check the eye icon next to Light Source on the right side of your dev kit to turn off lighting. That will stop it from crashing.
Is it possible/allowed to edit an existing map? Not just add stuff to it, but actually alter and morph the existing landscape.
curious about this one also, im working on an ice age map, similar to far cry primal one, would love to edit rag or valg maps instead.
for some reason, I can't find any of the textures that you mentioned, and I can't paint the other ones. Can you help?
Look for the same materials but with the prefix. MM_
heyy, i love your toturials,
but i wnna kno how to add an new brush texture, like sand or snow. maybe you can explain or make a little toturial of it, that would be awesome !!!!
for anki, I'm playing alone. For the most part in a single player game, and each time you have to run from the dino to the dino. That would be great to use ankylo as a bud then playing together, that is, to beat the lockaw from the console in hand by sitting on the ketz and holding the anchi in the paws ...
At 5:50, I selected Landscape and Paint, put there are no options under the target layers dropdown menu.
same problem
Can you make extensions to current maps?
Wondering the same
Im trying to install the editor my ark GAME is on my e drive from steam but when i try to install the EDITOR on the d drive it says it needs space for 320GB!!!! HELP ME PLZ!!!
its like its trying to reinstall the whole game
I have a Question? I am making a map with another person but how do we share our files so we are not undoing each others work?
so what do I need to make my PC not freeze so often? A better processor? like who has time to wait 10-30 mins for something to finish loading in for the action you just did? I ended process when it said not responding for more than 5 mins today.. how can anyone make anything if it does that from every simple thing u create?
Now you understand why it takes so long to create good games
@@FATMAC2 lol i did much better on old dev kit. New one I am stuck. Trying to still create my map..
every time a hit create map it crash to desktop with no error
found a solution to my problem i deleted the direct light source and the map landscape worked
Question for you. if I want to make a bigger map then what you are showing in the video, do I need to set the location variable (located in the transform tab under details) higher than 100 x 100? I can't seem to find any info in the documentation that gives any explanation as to what the location variable actually does.
You don't want top change the transform as that's position in the world. You could try scaling it, but I'm pretty sure that it would make your textures all wonky. I suppose you could just use multiple landscapes, but bear in mind you'll probably be going over the maximum size that wildcard would reccomend, so you may encounter some performance issues.
I was hoping you were going to say that, because I was definitely dealing with performance issues, mainly ue4 gobbling up all my ram and crashing the editor. Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it!!
Gamenicitii - Psylent Psyphrr lol ok, well I think you'll find that 255x255 or whatever the max is is big enough for most things! And no worries :)
TheDonkeyBoy Sorry, when you say 255 x 255 are you talking about the location variable or the scale?
Gamenicitii - Psylent Psyphrr I mean the size of the Landscape when you make it :)
Can you help me? why is my Dirt_Plane_NoHole hidden after i used it once? i mean it doesn't want to show up? Please help me, anybody!
Can you make a tutorial over how to create a mission? like a deathmatch or conquest? im not a programmer so i need something to hold on, and learn from.
How do you get dev kit? Like how do you get them to give you their key
Bein Bian Download the epic games launcher, click on modding then the ark dev kit
Although be aware it’s a 120gb download
TheDonkeyBoy what about the isle? (the dinosaur game)
Bein Bian No idea. Try googling it
The Isle is thusfar the only game (that I personally know about) where you have to get a key from the devs personally to be able to mod it. Just mod Ark instead.
does anyone know what to do if you get an error when trying to launch as a standalone game saying "assertion failed: LockedData"?
Question, I'm trying to paint some mountains, but there's no snow brush. How do I create one?
Hi, you'll need to see the pinned comment on this video: th-cam.com/video/7G-Pn6rluWM/w-d-xo.html
I know I'm very late, but how come when I add in the Dirt_Plane_NoHole it is invisible? It is not hidden either.
Can you do a tut on importing grey scale height maps? I've done a few tries but can't get it quite right
Sure! I'm working on one myself at the moment so I'll try and get that done soon
It seems that every time I click "create landscape", the editor will freeze and simply close down entirely. I've tried loading every asset in the game to see if it would do anything, but sadly not. anyone know how to fix this?
Edit: If I click "fill world" it works (almost) fine. but if I don't click it then it will crash. I don't want to fill world so what is going on?
I had an issue where the editor would just close. No warnings, nothing. What fixed it for me, before you create world or anything like that, look in scene outliner and delete the 'light source' actor.
I'll give it a try. Thanks for the reply! :)
my problem was that when i clicked at create, dev kit would just freeze and close and what helped me was that when i created the new level, i chosed "empty level" and then it went fine.
Or u can just disable the (Atmosphere Sun light) checkbox on the default light source and ure good to go.
thank you this worked
Clean, usefull, well made! Ty!
Thank you sir!
Question: when selecting a painting texture, it still has the texture set to the default checkered pattern. Any fixes?
Damien Valenzuela This is most likely your computer loading in the paint texture. This can take a while, so leave it for a bit then come back to it
My Dirt_Plane_NoHole shows up as solid black. How did you get yours looking like stand straight up?
Also, my landscape is also black and won't let me paint terrain on it. I've followed along with your instructions step by step, but it doesn't work for me :(
You could try setting the material on the DirtPlane to BeachSands01. When you say you can't pain it, what do you mean? Does it just not show up?
Hi Great vid learn more here than anywhere, I'm just starting out and I cant paint either I see the circle and it changes when I set it to pattern and back but my mouse just wont grab it and move it around I must be doing somthing wrong but haven't found any simple answer searching around
Solved !LOL I apparently have to be in perspective mode and not top, side, or front
+TheDonkeyBoy Great tutorials, they are super helpful for aspiring mapmakers like me, but I have an issue I don't know how to solve. When trying to sculpt the downwards areas, there is not enough material below it (Thickness). It looks like a gentle slope of a meter or two, instead of a drop like normal oceans. How do I solve this!
When I follow these steps the landscape has a checkered board like surface like chess and my sky is just white when I make new levels; how do I change these things to be the same as when you do it?
+NEUTR0NIC if you press new level you should have a BP_SkySphere in there already, if not then copy one in from TheIsland. If the landscape is checkered it means you haven't added the materials yet or it's compiling shaders
It's not that the Skysphere is missing, it's that it is not rendering in like it is in your video when creating a new level. Nor does it render anything in the test map.
Even when in play mode in the editor, the sky does not render.
Rob Williams What version of the Dev kit are you using?
v4.5.1-0+UE4. Downloaded two to three days ago.
The sky renders similar to yours if I use BP_Sky_SphereOld, but BP_Sky_Sphere does not. I notice that the TestMapArea also uses Sky_SphereOld. I've tried removing and re-adding it to my project, but achieve the same results.
Not show-stopping, as it seems that I should be able to easily change it later on without breaking anything once I learn what's happening.
Thank you for putting these videos together. They are quite a notch above most of the other guides I've come across.
hello, not sure what i'm doing wrong, when i load up MI_NewWorld, the sky is white and the floor is checkered, how do i fix this? thanks
MI_NewWorld?
sorry i mean newisland lol, my landscape is checkred, not black
Add MI_NewIsland_Hole to the hole material (4:42) and then let the shaders compile
my shared_grass_01looks wet.... is this normal?
any ideas???
need help!!
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there is a console from the c4 there is a button, there is a saddle from the anchky there is an opportunity to install a torch, there is a scuba gear, and a player who sits on an anchor can beat resources ... how to force the anki to beat resources by pressing a button on the remote? and put the scuba diving on the saddle for the anchovy ...
Huh?
really create such a mods or not? ... All rights to the implementation will be yours)))
+Maikl Fox I'm confused as to what you're trying to describe? Sorry lol
I ask you to create two mods, if it is not difficult for you, I'm lol in this matter and even trying does not make sense ... Please! Please! Please! a
My brand new alien ware keeps crashing when I create MI_New Island, I have tried doing all of the different quads, can someone help me
The landscape texture MI_NewIsland wont let me paint on it. It doesn't show as black, instead as a grey checker pattern. When I try to paint nothing happens. :(
Did you set the hole and if so, try setting the collision preset to Ground
+mavis cruet is right, you need to set your hole material and you should be able to paint on it :)
I don't have the MI_NewIsland file. Any suggestions please?
How do you add snow? I'm not seeing as an option in paint.
+Allied Shadow if all goes to plan there'll be a video out on that tomorrow. It's more complicated than the rest as MI_NewIsland doesn't have a preset layer for snow
Awesome, thank you for the quick response.
Hello! I need some help regarding the SOTF dev kit, there is no MI_Newisland and I don't know any replacements for it :/ (New to modding/maps)
+NeusDreams There's probably another material you could use, it might just be a case of experimenting with it
TheDonkeyBoy Yup, found one that was good enough ''Mat_TheIsland'' The only bugs Im experincing right now is the water being green, and only three avaliable colors/things that I can paint with, the rest becomes the grey, white pixels thing.. But so far the tutorial has been great! AAND the foilage tool being buggy.
Thanks mate, this really helped!
Help needed, when I press create landscape the kit just crashes, no matter the material
go to lightning and turn off atmospheric lighting
(i know i'm super late, but whatever)
My ark editor doesnt have MI_NewIsland in the list so now im stuck
Hello good afternoon, I'm from Brazil, I don't know practically anything about this program and I don't understand much English and I'm wanting to learn how to use this program and mine doesn't show MI_NewIsland like yours
agora minha target layer fica vazia é normal?
I downloaded it from epic games and I don't have the MI_NewIsland file what do I do
I have the same issue
Nerds Playhouse me too
me too :/
how did you get the background / skybox?
hey, it should be there by default or at least available in the default level that loads when you boot the dev kit
@@TheDonkeyBoy it isn't for me though
@@simongodin6333 seems the default sky is all white
is there a way to fix this
for the dirt plane WE MAKE BOCK ALL ?
+Phenix mortel The dirt plane is there to act as a visual representation of a continuing ocean floor, but as long as you place your world border before the landscape ends then you don't need to make it block all.
ok thank you !
but i want to block it because my map is very big xD
Phenix mortel it doesn't matter how big your map is, the player should ever have to go onto the dirt plane - that's not what it's for
ok ok thanks !
Hi, I hope you still read the comments. I got a Problem i finished my sky, landscape, Ocean but when i hit Play my collision area is 186 Units above the Ground. i can build on it and walk on it but it just Looks stupid. Hope you can help me there.
btw: really nice Videos i whatched them all and i learned so much from you. Thank you for that!!
Ok so everything else world fine but using MI_newisland_hole crashes my editor Everytime I use that material any tips for fixing or should I use another material instead ik I'm kind of late to the vid but first time ever using it lol
Lewis Palmer interesting. I’d recommend verifying your files in the epic games launcher or reinstalling, and if it carries on post in the moddig discord and see if anyone else has had that issue
Ok thanks was thinking it was my computer but it works fine with everything else I'll see if reinstall works
Do I need the epic games version of the game?
nope
is there a way to undo a stupid mistake, like accidentally making a big hole
Ryan Mussell of course! Edit>Undo or Ctrl+Z
why does mine look so different to yours when you add the landscape :( my landscape is red, and when i try and paint over it, it does nothing :s
+Ms PhoebeLouise have you applied both materials correctly?
TheDonkeyBoy I did all the steps in the video to what you had done, it just looks super different on mine and I have no clue why... is this an older version of the Dev Kit? Or is there another step I need to do?
+Ms PhoebeLouise This is a slightly older version but as far as I'm aware it hasn't changed that much. Do you have twitter? Tweet me a screenshot of you'd like and I'll have a look. @DonkeyBoyGames
TheDonkeyBoy yeah I do, that would be great thank you! I'll follow you in a sec
When I search MI_NewIsand nothing comes up
I love making Ark Maps but I have a question, can I sell my ark maps once I finish them or?
Dev kit crashes everytime i try to create a new level
Go to lighting and turn off atmospheric lighting
Hey! thanks so much for this. Could you do a tutorial on map extensions? Like floating islands? :)
Yeah I don't see why not - As in like an addition the Island Map?
Exactly. It would help me alot. And you do the tutorials in a very clear way. Subbed you already by the way ;)
Couldn't you extrude upwards and then remove the pillar? (Build the island on top the pillar
Hey thanks for your videos, the videos are really the best i have seen yet! I follow all your tutorials, but I think it happened after the levels: when I am in the Playmode there are two landscapes?? although I have just one. When i use cheat fly I can fly higher and higher to the second landscape and the character can stand on it. But when I am in the Creatormode I cant the the second landscape above the other. And I have no light so that I have to use my torch :D I dont know what happened :S
Hopefully you can understand what I mean
Is there anyway to do a video on doing snow? From what I have been reading on forums and even the comments here, It's seems to be a mystery to everybody but a select few, and those few aren't speaking up at all...
+DragonFang253D Yeah sure :) expect it early next week hopefully!
Ty much, I've been pulling my hair out for the last 6 hours trying to figure it out (I'm completely new to this whole thing) Most I have done is made maps in Halo and Farcry (old school one) and your tutorials have been helpful getting me started up.
No worries man! Good luck, just gimme a few days and I'll get it out asap
Can i copy the Landscape when i finished my work? :) for creating the same island nearby?
Cry Gaming I suppose you could - but you'd be better off making a big landscape, then raising bits up for your islands. Check out the second one of these tutorials where I cover adding an ocean :)
Yeah but i rly need more then 10 Island that perfectly the same :D
I would suggest using a big sculpting brush then - You want to avoid cutting multiple landscapes where possible :)
Dude can u tell me how i can use more Foliage? xD I dont know how but if i use a Tree i have to delete it and replace another foliage? or i can use multiple and select it then?
+Cry Gaming You can drag more foliage meshes into the tool on the left, and set them all up just as you did for the first one. You can in theory paint on everything at once
Great video - authoritative and accessible this guy knows what he's doing and why. I watched a similar beginner's video from a different TH-camr and the guy not only mumbled but kept saying ' I don't know why it's doing that' which didn't give me much confidence to try it out. I subbed you instead!
help if i start ark Editor and wait and waiting 30min. and nothing happened, i watch log and some error like: cant find file for asset please help with this.
another tid-bit of information was that at the first time set up should warn people that it may take a bit to locate all assets which im getting so i cannot render much till everything is uploaded..
Yeah, when you first start using the Dev kit everything takes a long time
thank you so much
Good tutorial, but when I place the second texture, it doesn't render in. Also I can only change the landscape one time.
D Mithrandi make sure you hold down the mouse button for a while when you paint over another layer, as it takes a while to come through. And what do you mean change the landscape?
I ment when I start to add grass, the tile turns grey and then it stays like that. Thanks for your respond
D Mithrandi yeah that's common, leave it for 10 mins, and if it doesn't change then restart the Dev kit and try again :)
So the problem im facing is that my sky is completely white, and i have the Sky Sphere blueprint already. I don't know if its something on my end or if its just the shaders need to compile or whatever. Other than that this video was pretty good, keep up the good work!
How do you get dev kit?
You need to install it from "Unreal Engine". Or at least i have anyways
You can download it from the epic games launcher, the same one used for fortnite
I like your Ps
Thank you :D
imagine if we had a far cry like map making tool
Nice and breezy, good work. Unnerving name, but nice vid.
lol, thank you dude
how does this only have 900 views?
+CoVidss TH-cam marked your comment as spam so I didn't see it, but it's got more views than that now ;)
man every time I hit create the dev kit exits it's self it's like my computer has a mind of its own
go to light source and turn off atmospheric sun light and then try it
Foxerion oh thank you it worked
Is this tutorial still relevant in 2018? Just curious.
AFAIK it is, but I will be revisiting initial setup/landscape creation soon with the latest ADK
Still seems to work in basic...but I cannot get the skybox textures to show up in a new map in the window. Also...the Universal Material stuff is no longer available in the link, but you can get it form the ArkDev Wiki page along with a link to a video to install and set it up. You have to make sure you have added the textures to the project to have them show up. So far so good. I have a map I can run around on. Now I'm off to Tutorial 2, to add water. I am lilking the tutorial so far, as it actually just shows you what to do, and seems to be avoiding the 'well..I don't know why...you just do' that a lot of other old tutorials have. Received wisdom as opposed to practical knowledge I guess. Would be great to see these updated to the current devkit versions.
You commentate really well for 35 subs lol
DrunkPotato haha thanks dude!
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