Hello guys!

I have an idea to create an open world survival multiplayer game.

Could you please give me some recomendation, is it ok to use Unreal Engine for this? What is the simple way to get big location generated with hills, forest, lakes, rivers..

I don't want to spend much time to create all this staff, just want to focus on person of player and on some objects in game.

Appreciate your help.

On 11.11.2017 at 11:48 AM, Revoltem said:

I don't want to spend much time to create all this staff

Wrong point of beginning! You will need to spend time here, at least for managing your open world.

An open world is just a huge terrain like any other terrain in games that is chunked and automatically loaded/unloaded when a player moves out of its current chunk so it gets a feeling as if the world is endless in opposite to level based games. The secret is a good loading/unloading management and a terrain that is able to be chunked. Maybe you need some chunking algorythm here that for example cutts hills/mountains.

Using Unreal is absolutely ok but I do not know if they natively support terrain streaming or if you need to do the stuff by your own. For making such a terrain there are very little alternatives to handcraft your map. You could basically use some terrain generator like World Machine or Terragen but will need to do the level design work on your own. Thats what makes development times, graphics and level design

Shaarigan, thank you so much for your reply.

So, now I know that I need an engine which support terrain streaming. 

And I need an expereinced coder, who can share his knowledge about this topic. So, anybody who is interested  - please contact me. 

I just find on github unity-terrain-streaming

6 hours ago, Shaarigan said:

Using Unreal is absolutely ok but I do not know if they natively support terrain streaming or if you need to do the stuff by your own.

Unreal 4 supports streaming and is the go to engine for open world games.

Unreal has a huge amount of tools that make open world games easier. That is to say that it makes a complex and difficult subject, a bit less difficult.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/OpenWorldTools/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/LevelStreaming/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/index.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Foliage/index.html

3 hours ago, Revoltem said:

I just find on github unity-terrain-streaming

Unity's whole terrain tool is so out of date that you would be better off just using meshes and writing your own octree for it. Or buying one of the better terrain tools.

On 11/11/2017 at 12:48 PM, Revoltem said:

I don't want to spend much time to create all this staff, just want to focus on person of player and on some objects in game.

Then you need to cut on the quality. Aim low and you won't have to do so much work.

3 hours ago, Revoltem said:

And I need an expereinced coder, who can share his knowledge about this topic. So, anybody who is interested  - please contact me. 

You need a level Designer, Lighting artist, 1-2 3D modelers, 1-2 programmers.

It's going to cost you a lot to learn how to make open world games. Either a lot of time or a lot of money, it will cost both if you go and buy terrain software.

Always use the free trail of any software before buying it. A lot of what the terrain tools can do won't help you in a game.

On 13.11.2017 at 3:29 PM, Scouting Ninja said:

It's going to cost you a lot to learn how to make open world games. Either a lot of time or a lot of money, it will cost both if you go and buy terrain software.

Always use the free trail of any software before buying it. A lot of what the terrain tools can do won't help you in a game.

Thank you very much for you reply!

My level of writing code is too low, mostly I'm kinda director or project manager. I have monthly income to pay to hired coders and ofcourse I'm spending time to get all this clear for me.

"You need a level Designer, Lighting artist, 1-2 3D modelers, 1-2 programmers."

Now I'm looking for all these guys. 

On 20/11/2017 at 12:40 PM, Revoltem said:

Thank you very much for you reply!

My level of writing code is too low, mostly I'm kinda director or project manager. I have monthly income to pay to hired coders and ofcourse I'm spending time to get all this clear for me.

"You need a level Designer, Lighting artist, 1-2 3D modelers, 1-2 programmers."

Now I'm looking for all these guys. 

 

If you need any help of some kind, feel free to send me a message on Discord. 

Send the message to "Nick AKA Blooperz#9145" on discord if you wanna talk about your project.