Making maps with Unity and Unreal?

[Seeria]

Has anyone tried using Unity or Unreal (or other type engines) to make a map? I'm guessing it would result in third-person perspective of all the zone terrain to make a map image. Never used either but a game programmer asked me today if I'd thought of using engines for mapping.

So anyone done it? Care to share results and tips?

[ChickPea]

No personal experience with this, but I believe there's some relevant discussion in this folder...

https://www.cartographersguild.com/f...ost&order=desc

[Robbie]

I use godotengine.org to create a simple walkthrough of a dungeon map as a challenge entry a while back. I'll see if I can find the link. I also posted the source code for it.

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Edit: found it. https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=35001

Download link is on page 6. Godot, unlike unity and unreal is totally free and open source. And once 3.0 comes out it will have a renderer that rivals it's competitors as well with PBR and voxel cone tracing and the like. Look into it.

[Smonbrogg]

This one is entirely done in Unity3D so far.

https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...957#post330957

I'm using the 2D tools provided by the engine and a custom shader to get a paper texture effect. The shader took some time and trickery, but everything else was pretty straight forward.