Unreal Engine: Understanding Maps, Levels, and Sublevels using the Levels Tab.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2021
- Here's a full explanation of maps, levels, and sublevels so you can decide how you would like to organize your projects.
I also left in some unexpected level saving/missing content fishy business, so you can also see what I did to (try and) fix it, as that's always good to see as well...
boy, you're good teacher. And you choose actual topics to describe. Plz continue
Thanks!!
I totally agree with you. He knows exactly what should be in tutorials.
Thanks for leaving in the errors the program gave you. Sometimes Things Happen while follows steps in a video and tutorials do not show how to solve them. This was incredibly informative, thank you.
I'm a firm believer in "if it happened to me, it'll probably happen to others!". Glad you like the organic-ness :)
Just perfect! Also likes the "bumps" during the lesson! ...so educational, thanks!!
This is a great video, and thank you for keeping the errors! It's good for us to see that this kind of stuff happens once in a while with anyone 😂
Awesome tutorial, that's exactly what I need for managing a big project, searched for documents for hours still bit confused but your video just explained every thing so clearly, much appreciated!
That's great!! Glad it was useful and clear.
thank you - I'm just building an island village and it's still way more cluttered and challenging than I'd expected - thank you so much
Oh man, loved that you kept the mistake in! That is so important when teaching because that is exactly what happens when you're learning! Subscribed just for that!
That was really helpful. Thank you! I was having weird problems that this helped me understand.
very helpful! figured me out the concept of sublevel and how to ues it. THANK YOU!
Glad to hear, thanks for the note!
❤ thanks a lot, buddy. Just what I needed. 🎉🎉🎉
Lol great vid bud! And good laugh as well! Thanks for keeping it real 💪
Ha, thanks!
You saved me! I started with levels recently but couldn't get them all to show and struggled with black viewports when a built level should have shown. Now everything is working =D
Good to hear!! Glad it was helpful!!
Well explained, thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Well done. This helped alot. Thanks
Glad to hear it!
very informative, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
great tutorial, thank you very much
You are welcome!
excellent tutorial
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for this.
Tuned in to see how Sublevels are used for other things beyond Level Streaming and delighted things went wrong. That is when the good stuff is learned..
Totally agree!!
Thanks for sharing JC! It was actually fun and funny to see how real world problem occurs. I have a noob question. I have read the documentation about level streaming, volume streaming. But if we have a project with multiple large heavy (geometry and textures) persistent level. how does UE handle going from 1 persistent level to the next in game? Do we have a choice to preload or force no preloading of all the persistent levels in the game? For example, 1 persistent level is on a ship with complex interiors. 2nd persisten level is on an island. game play teleports between these 2 persistent levels. The concern here is just to keep memory requirements low usage. Thanks!!!
Good question Max! I'm more focused over on animation/cinematics using sequencer side of UE, so I'm a bit less savvy on the level loading during gameplay side of things... but if I have a chance I'll poke around and see if I can figure something out - or maybe someone else can jump in here to answer as well?
excellent thanks
Amazing video and the disappearing level made me laugh so hard!
Thanks, I aim to entertain 😀
If I create a dozen of sublevels for different scenes in short film but pull in a couple of ones at a time, how would that effect to the performance, especially in framerate? Does only a couple of sublevels loaded to the main level effect to the performance?
You know, I’m not sure when the frame rate would be (a/e?)ffected… I’m sure eventually I would, but since generally rendering out movies/frames vs RT game play, it’s mainly have much can you tolerate for interactive working in editor… I’ve never pushed too hard myself so I really can’t help much…
Do you know how to move object between the persistent level and its sublevel ? i really need that , thank for the video btw
Ah it’s been a while for me to reply … still need the answer?
@@3dJC tbh yes , it would be great if learn a good way to move object between persistent to sublevels and opposite
OK, fresh video to answer that - here you go! th-cam.com/video/dzfriarbFcg/w-d-xo.html
Good explanation but I have a different problem, I downloaded a ENV from Market place that I am trying to light, I went to the levels and start hiding some blocking geo which were blocking the key light by press the eye icon in outliner all good until this point but when I closed and reopen Unreal it doesn't respect what I close on the eye icon in outline it turns them all back on ? how do I fix this ? please help thanks.
Go into the Details tab and scroll down to Rendering and uncheck "visible".
@@3dJC I tried a different approach i created a sub level dumb every thing that I wanted invisible and turn off the eye icon on the level and it solved the issue thanks.
hey JC that was really useful... it would be even greater if you do another one w the same but w a better functionality demonstration 'how would different people work on the same but w different levels'. I've learn and done a new level made of 2 big maps bringing assets to-from one map to another main - so, thanks ! cheers from Rio
ps. just got that THERE IS a swaping assets in UE w JC link: th-cam.com/video/dzfriarbFcg/w-d-xo.html
how did you add fps and other stats into your toolbar?
Ah that’s a great feature! Go to edit->editor prefs, search “memory”, then check on “show frame rate and memory”.
Hi GREAT and fun REAL tutorial! Thank you so much. WHY would they call the dark mannequin LIT and the one WITH light UNLIT? I guess that why she is SOLO (alone) because no one can find her like that. Where would I go to find your real beginner tutorials?
Howdy! I recently released a great intro video here: th-cam.com/video/eTWnzHQJvBE/w-d-xo.html
I am new to unreal and I am facing a problem .my interface is in full screen and there is no button in the left (place Actor) The whole thing is missing and the the same for the right side 😅
Try looking at the window tab on the top left corner and see if you disabled anything
@@User-qb9uz it's fixed now but thanks for the help✌️
Curious to know what you found solved your UI need?
Hey on that disappearing thing I've had it happen to me in recently in UE5 as well.. I managed to find the file I was looking for by searching the name in the finder, not sure if that helps in UE4 but hey give it a try, great vid!!
Good tip!
Use of Levels requires that all Maps/Levels are in the same folder - so for sanity - create a "Top Level" "Maps" folder for all your maps that are participating in Level streaming maps usage
Actually, you can have your levels in various folders for cinematics use (my main target audience, vs games), and if setting your streaming method on each to "always loaded" (say you're assembling multiple levels of lights, props, characters, etc in an animation example), then all is well, everything will all load up fine. You can make as big of a folder mess as you want and it will still work, but I agree trying to group them does at least make easier to find them. Also if they are in multiple folders and you lose one, using the filter for "levels" in content browser is pretty handy too.
You did save the level at 9:50 - and did you ever find out why it was never found?
Good eye... yeah, every now and then, something just needs a kick as I've had that happen since then when trying to do a really quick demo and jump between new levels right away. Sometimes reopening works and everything shows up... but I've come to accept it's UE not me :)
This video was hella funny
I hope that's a good thing, hahaha!
I have wast 20m xD thx for that useful tutorial!
No problem!
Lol, you should rename this video to Unreal Murphy's Law
Ha! Yeah… I’m going to redo all these for UE5 so hopefully all works fine then… we shall see!
@@3dJC haha sounds good. Did you ever find out why saving to game/maps didn't show the umap in the directory?
You know, I never went back to try it again - I'm making a new series soon for v5, so I'll see how we do in that next round!
so what happened about that solo girl...
Ha, yeah, I need to try again - been to busy at work to repeat and try and break it again... I'll report back if I can figure out what's up!
Terminology could be better. Maps are Levels currently, and sub-levels are in the tab labeled as "Levels".
Should remove the term Maps completely, let levels be called levels, and label the sub-levels tab "sub-levels" lol. Makes this a hard topic to explain.
Totally!!
YOu saved your girl level in the ThirdPersonBP - Maps
It said Game/Maps, so how was it ThirdPersonBP/Maps?
I still get occasional buggy stuff happening when doing quick make a level/add something/swap level, still not repeatable per se, but it was definitely "it", not me, haha
@@3dJC it's okay 🙂
This is what happens if someone doesn't know exactly how this works and makes a tutorial about it.
Ha, not sure how to interpret this comment?