Building Maps in Arma Reforger - Tools : Pt1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2022
- A guide on creating maps within the Arma Reforger Tools covering terrain sculpting, Sat Maps, Height Maps and Roads.
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FYI, the reason your height map ended up so "horrible" was because you made the terrain extremely small scale to what it would actually have been based on the size of the heightmap. The website you showed doesnt give you the actual area of the map, it just gives you the cross section size, so in reality you should've sized your terrain to 17km*17km which is 289sqr km, but instead you made it only 17 square km. This is what made the heightmap look so "extreme"
Great catch. I was wondering why my buildings were not lining up with the image overlay and seemed gigantic. But wow... the map is soooooo huge now.
@@GeoTactics yeah, happened to me as well and took a while to figure it out lol, and yes the map becomes so much bigger when you get the correct scale. It's kinda hard to get a good size map that isnt too big lol
@@FusionTrain My system cannot handle a large 17kmx17km map (289skm) and hangs or crashes. Might have to go back do smaller maps. Bummer.
Hello , could you please help , i want to prepeare some terrain for a4 , the question is would terrain created in reforger world editor funcional in A4 ?
@@Bageuette4204 A4 is not out yet. Reforger is NOT A4.
This is some good stuff to get people started. Explains things well enough for anyone to be able to get into this if they want to. Definitely helps me out as you've done more faffing about than I have with the tools. Looking forward to more.
this is great. You make me feel like i can do this myself. I would not even have dared to think about starting a project like this before.
If all these steps are required for the start of the default terrain editing, why there is no terrain template or something?
This is seriously good stuff.... beautifully explained. Epic.
This tuts great for a start! Thanks for putting it together for us smooth brains
Thanks for this video. You did a great job of making this complex system very approachable!
Love the relaxed style great video
Long time since i've seen this video :) This was one of the vids that helped me get started with terrain editing for Reforger.
One tip I found with the road tool, if you select either of the boxes that come off of that blue line, you can move them towards the original road point, and it will remove that curve. Don't keep messing with them trying to get straight lines, just bring those blue boxes in
fantastic tutorial!
Thankyou for this.
The buildings can flatten the terrain underneath them if you check the adjust height map in the entities options.
Great tutorial! A problem I ran into was the importing of the height map, specifically it was being imported into the positive x and z cords while the terrain size I was giving was centered around the origin (aka only a quarter of the imported height map was in bounds) I fixed this by adjusting the Terrain entity cords by half the terrain size in the negative direction (for this example, the area is 18.9 km^2 = 4352 m x 4.352m, so adjust the terrain cords to x=-2266 , y=0, z=-2266) This should center the imported height map on the terrain.
Also, as someone has already commented, the area from the height map you used is not 17 km^2, it has lengths and widths of 17km so the actual area would be 289km^2 :)
4 month later, you helped me very much, thanks!
I am so confused 😭
Hello! Great video.
I'm trying to recreate the village where I'm from, however I'm having a hard time getting the scale right.
After importing the heightmap and satelite-image into the world, I tried placing a car down and it is way too big compared to what it should be. Is there any way to get a scale that is more true to real life, or do I have to manually sculpt everything?
Thanks!
Were we suppose to add a EnvironmentEntityProbe? i seen it in the Hierarchy but didnt hear anything about it? Love the videos man!
This is great stuff, now i can make 3D map modles for work and for hobby lol. ive always wanted to get into arma map making as a hobby. Also if any communities looking for people to teach lmk. I did get hung up with the satellite png. that wouldn't load for me but besides that everything else was pretty solid.
Very useful and well explained. I might finally make a map! If my machine handles the software. Only played the game briefly through GeForce NOW 😅
I made my island without a satellite map because it's quite small. Is there an easy way to generate a satellite map from the map's applied textures? Because at the moment when you zoom out everything goes grey as the image I imported for the satellite map is greyscale. Btw, a lot of the lighting/post processing entities can be set up using prefabs in the resource browser without having to enter everything yourself (search 'lighting' for example). I made a guide on Steam but a lot of it needs updating as I didn't know you're supposed to use the satellite map like this.
If you painted the surfaces, you can export their masks. You can use this as an alpha mask in you favorite raster editor like Photoshop. This advice is certainly not a complete tutorial but maybe it can help you get started :-)
I realize this is a tad old, however I am trying to get started in map building and these videos are fantastic. It appears that this map website is no longer working. Are there any others like this you can suggest?
I have the same problem, looking for a site to download heightmaps but cant find any yet
Thank you for the share- I've run into a muck here when I go to player as the in game player it says I must be in game mode ? In effusion tools editor any Ideas?
Great tutorial! One question: how come that with the data from the terrain map exactly as specified it becomes so much higher/steeper than it looks to be in " real-life" (eg Google Maps 3d)
Either it's perspective, or for the heightmap the heighest point (biggest value) isn't the same as the geographical highest point.
Have you progressed this further I've come to a brick wall getting errors now....I'm sure there's a better way. Also I'm wondering if there a way one could use the already built in terrain and just edit the buildings and add remove rocks etc... what's your thoughts?
Why does the satalite png crashes when applied even when it's png i tried multi times and still crashes
SatMap imported hundreds of meters above heightmap. How do I lower it down to heightmap level?
Hi, a great tutorial, but i have a problem. When i put the atmosphere all the terrain become withe, and i can't see nothing. How can i fix it?
Do you have to use a height map or could you use the terrain tool to just make your own map ?
Hey great video! Just a quick question, do you know how to stop the terrain grass from overlapping with the road? Thanks!
Easiest way I found is to paint over it with the default, this will replace it with the sat map you import under the road.
After you create/update roads, (re)import a satellite map - make sure you have "render roads" checked. It will prevent the grass to grow under the roads.
@@lukaszavitkovsky7415 I’ve been trying to work this out! Thanks so much for the video, question and answer! 😊….hail the greatness of TH-cam!
Thanks for the video, has been a great help so far.
One thing I've noticed was that at 00:17:15 a new entity appears in your hierachy, that isn't mentioned in the video. is this important, or just an oversight?
I also ran into a visual issue where, when I click on the terrain tool button up the top of the screen, my window would re-size itself, hiding the bottom of the window, (where you say to click the terrain tool at the bottom right) (00:17:32). I fixed it by toggling fullscreen (F 11) on and off again.
same issue with the terrain tool, thanks for the tip to find it
Following up on the terrain tool button, if you go to "windows" tab up the top and select "current tool" to display it will also come up.@@grimstar232
If anyone has lots of crashes like I did when I first started using the tools is to create a folder called World's and save your project inside that folder. all my crashes stopped after that.
I have an issue with my map it's floating above the water and is not anywhere it should be. How do I fix this ?.
Is there a recent version of this tutorial ? 2024 the terrain thing seem to be a blank white screen...
is there any way to get the map image to be highter resolution? it seems to be fairly low quality for me
the heightmap you reccomended doesnt work for me it just shows a white screen :/ i donno whats up with that, is there any other heightmaps i can use for this?
hi! short question when i start the world editor i have no lines!..i mean the black ones!..and i when i click create new terrain after i save it and do everything right..nothing appears..i cant see it
Unfortunately it could be lots of things. It might be that you just cant see it due to a perspective issue. Under the top tool bar try clicking perspective and changing that would be my first try.
@@GRIEFDRUMS i will thanks
This was from someone else - I cannot take credit.
Start with a blank world, create new terrain entity, do the "create new terrain" thing (terrain is invisible), then delete terrain entity and immediately revert this step. Terrain should appear and you'll be able to save the world.
Not a bad effort at all, enough info to get people off the ground (pardon the pun) with terrain editing
When adding the PP affects, there is a simpler way than adding them separately and naming them.
Nice Vid! you going to go back to Twitch at all?
I'd like to. I just have a lot of personal stuff going on at home right now I'm afraid.
When I approach the ground, it turns brown like the earth. Because of this I don't see the ported sattellite map. How to fix it?
Can we use this tool for creating terrains in arma 3 ?
I can’t seem to find the arm 3 reforger tool I only see the reforger server
Can you show us how to make terrain underwater and add whatever possible.
Nice Video .... helped me alot .
I tried everything but i have a problem.
Made a terrain with 2048x2048 size. In world editor i cant reach the end of the terrain. Camera stops at 3000 x or 3000 z . In gamemode i can walk over that ,border, . How can i fix this ?
same did you fix this?
reopen ur program
2024 here, thank you!
aWESOME tutorial. thanks. within minutes I got a crappy lil map of estonia put together. look out for my new map called ESTONIA. I'm going to try to make some of the key terrain features and stuff there, and include the roads so people can simulate a russian invasion / nato war :D
After he adds the weather manager he also added something called ...mentprobeentity_1, but does not mention it at all?
i cant see all of my window for terrain tools?
how do i get rid of sat terrain ?
Does anyone have any tips on how to
Install game master into my editor?
When I put a camera down i can't play. any advice?
I'm in the same boat as you.
How does one ger Arma Tools? Do I need to own the game?
You forgot about Noise under custom to prevent gamma and brightness cheats Stops people from turning the gamma up on monitor to make it fair for everyone
can this world be ported into DayZ?
Priority for rain?
Also I don't know if you will even bother responding but im having an issue where none of the object such as houses that i put into the world, have any collisions with the player what so ever. The player just clips straight through them like they dont exist
I'm afraid I'm not sure about that. I will take a look and see if I can replicate it 👍🏻
@@GRIEFDRUMS disregard that lol i was under the "props" section instead of the "structures" section, and the props do not have a rigidbody
When I imported my Satellite map the terrain turned a pink colour
How do we install the tools?
Nvm
Why cart I copy and paste it's working
TERRAIN TOOL IS GRAYED OUT anyone know why?
Have you RIGHT CLICKED on TERRAIN and CREATED NEW TERRAIN?
@@irsasoccer7371 yes the terrain is already created but terrain tool is grayed out
@@moist_mike8113 just close the map and reopen it.
Just close Reforger tools and reopen, that will sort the issue put.
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The play button is greyed out for me
Can this new tool be used to make Arma 3 maps? I have been looking for an editor for Arma 3 as I hear Arma Reforger is very arcade like, not as much a sim. If not does anyone know if the best/newest map maker for Arma 3?