It’s been a little while since my last update on the progress of integrating Cubiquity with Unreal Engine 4 but plenty has been going on behind the scenes. Since the last video I’ve improved performance, added support for Coloured Cubes terrain, added LOD support, tested large map support and made sure that all of the functionality of Cubiquity is being exposed. A lot of time has just gone into making the code-base more future proof and reducing duplication between the different terrain modes.

Check out the video below to see the new features in motion as well as me just blowing stuff up at the 9:42 mark.

This more or less marks the features I wanted present for the first pre-release, so between now and then I will mostly be working on tidying things up and hopefully adding some initial documentation. I don’t have any ETA on the first release since this is fitting around my full-time job but any information will be posted here and on twitter.

The best place to follow development is the WIP thread on the Unreal Engine Forums.

As you might have seen if you’re following us on Twitter, I’ve been working hard recently to get Cubiquity working with Unreal Engine 4. Both David and I have long been fans of the Unreal games and the engine and so I’m having great fun diving into the code. I haven’t spend a lot of time on it yet but earlier this week I had the time to push the integration to a point where I can start showing off some features. Take a look at the video below for an overview of the current state.

The aim is to have at least feature equivalence between the UE4 version and the Unity3D version. So far I have only the smooth voxel terrain working and haven’t started on the coloured cubes version yet. There is live editing in the editor preview mode but not yet integrated as an editor tool such as users might be used to after working with UE4’s heightmap terrain features but this is something I will try to get in before the first official release. For the first beta release I want to spend some time neatening up the interface to the engine to make what’s currently available as usable as possible.

I’ll be posting an update here on the blog when there’s code out for people to test but in the meantime follow us on Twitter @VolumesOfFun (or me personally @milliams) or track our updates on the Unreal Engine Forums.