UE4 heightmap and scale problem in engine

sbiswas

I get this strange contouring problem with the heightmap imported landscape in UE4. I've tried so many ways but I just can't figure out what might be wrong!

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There is another problem going on over here. The terrain that I originally decided on was to be around 400-500 metre's, but when I import the heightmap it looks as if it is more than 4-5 kilometres wide, just saying! It looks really huge. The brush size at that point seems so small. Even with a camera speed of 8, it moves too slow, that big it is! Is there any way I could bring down the scale of the landscape?

Thanks guys!

Vailias

What bit depth is your terrain image?
If its an 8bit grey scale, you'll get terracing like that easily.
Try exporting it as a 16 bit greyscale and you may get better results.
Also https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/Creation/index.html

There should be a landscape scale option in the landscape object's properties.

sbiswas

@Vailias I'm doing it in xnormal and I cant seem to figure out how to export it as a 16bit! Is there any way to export it as a grayscale 16 bit out of xnormal? I tried creating the height map is zbrush and everything is black, just black with one white thin edge to the extreme right of the height map.