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Title: Unreal Engine
Post by: dorianvan on July 01, 2019, 01:33:32 PM
How much of a Terragen scene can you take into Unreal? Is it just the raw obj? Thx
Title: Re: Unreal Engine
Post by: WAS on July 01, 2019, 01:34:30 PM
Quote from: dorianvan on July 01, 2019, 01:33:32 PM
How much of a Terragen scene can you take into Unreal? Is it just the raw obj? Thx

Nothing in that sense.

You can export heightmap data from Terragen to use in Unreal's object-scapes.

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Title: Re: Unreal Engine
Post by: cyphyr on July 01, 2019, 01:55:12 PM
You can use Terragen rendered sky domes.
Just make sure they are as high resolution as you are prepared to wait for.
Title: Re: Unreal Engine
Post by: Oshyan on July 01, 2019, 03:04:54 PM
You can export:

- Terrain (heightfield or geometry)
- Environment map/skybox
- Camera and lighting via FBX (pretty sure Unreal either has FBX import, or a route to do so)
- Objects, e.g. export a TGO as OBJ for use in Unreal; this doesn't work with most native Terragen objects at the moment though

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Unreal Engine
Post by: WAS on July 01, 2019, 03:35:24 PM
Quote from: Oshyan on July 01, 2019, 03:04:54 PM
- Camera and lighting via FBX (pretty sure Unreal either has FBX import, or a route to do so)
Most definitely
Quote from: Oshyan on July 01, 2019, 03:04:54 PM
- Objects, e.g. export a TGO as OBJ for use in Unreal; this doesn't work with most native Terragen objects at the moment though

That would really leave third party objects, that would already be OBJ and on disk outside of TG, though. But with TGO assets like plants, I believe you're really only missing AO/Normal which could be easily generated from approximation, or just opened in Blender or something, and reworked.

Though I don't know of too many TGO assets licensed appropriately for games, being modified and redistributed in another format.
Title: Re: Unreal Engine
Post by: dorianvan on July 01, 2019, 08:42:50 PM
Thanks guys. Sky, terrain, camera and lighting check. So it looks like you have to start from scratch with foliage and colors. I'd be interested in seeing any of your anims or images you did in Unreal using TG heightfield/objs.