Welcome Survivors to this updated version of Ark The Island in Unreal Engine 5.1.
I read all your comments, good or bad, and did my best to correct the issues you noted :
– Increased asset render distance to avoid pop-ins/outs
– Improved water to a more tropical style but it’s still a flat plane. Sorry, Oceanology is too expensive for me 😉
– Increased foliage subsurface lighting
– Slightly reduced vignette effect
– Corrected ambient sounds
– Updated Rex, Raptor & Trike to latest TLCs
– Improved Dino turning
– Corrected many Dino sounds
And last but not least, added a Game Of Thrones “Warg” feature to possess and control Dinos !
All assets (except grass) are Nanite and lighting is handled by Lumen.
Assets used :
Ark Modkit :
https://launcher.store.epicgames.com/fr/p/ark–modkit
Tropical Forest :
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketpl…
Brushify Grasslands Pack :
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketpl…
Ultra Dynamic Sky :
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketpl…
Quixel Megascans
Rendered on my Intel I5 12400, RTX 3060 with 32Gb RAM @50-60 FPS with DLSS 2.0 activated.
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Hope you enjoy my work 🙂
Cheers and take care !
Greg aka Salenger
PS : I’m English, not American 😉
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So you successfully ported Ark to the Unreal engine 5???? How?
Honestly I was sorta meh until the thunderstorm. Then I was like… Okay now… I see you ark.
I know, UE5.1 mean less grass and lazy grass shadow.
You are an absolute mad lad! Never give up!
I shouldn’t be watching this video in 1080p should i
TBH I would be glad if the upgrade just fixed the broken water reflections and lighting. Bonus if it keeps mods working and runs better.
yo the sun doesn't blind the heck out of you
This has nothing to do with your incredible port of The Island – but watching this made me notice for the first time that ARKs dino animations always reset to the same position once you are done walking, most noticeable on the rex. If you stop walking when the right foot is forward, it slides so the left foot is forward. I think it would have added a lot to the game to have an idle position where either leg could be forward. Anyway, nothing to do with you of course.
Totally love this though – so awesome looking.
oh man I LOVE the weather effects!! I totally wish ARK had weather like this. That was fantastic.
Keep the work up
We need Footprints that stay on the ground for like 15-30mins. It make stuff fun by having to "track" dinosaurs and other players.
i feel like my game already looks like this
The crazy part about this is that video starts at the exact same location where I first spawned in ark for the very first time. I remember it like today because I build a raft and went straight into swamp behind that hill and I got absolutely obliterated by a group of sarcos, I mean it wasn't even close my parasaur got oneshot and I didn't make it 10 meters towards the shore.
That looks nice
And new animations ? Ok
Damn i was hoping for no more pop in, the trees have also seen better days… Maybe its just unfinished and youtube quality but it look kinda stinky.
This is not UE5, i play like this all the time, i have a rtx 3080, this is ultra settings on everything, you people must play at high or normal settings .
I'd be happy if they just reduced the game's size from 600 Terrashits to 80GB
you missing a bit of screen taring and bad pop in
this is not from official ARK is it ?
I guess I cant see the difference. my game looks like this already.. guess ill have to wait and see. idk.
I will say Id love to know your command codes… especially the one where you leave your human body to jump into a dino body.. I would LOVE that… more command codes period, would be nice.
Ark 1*
Correct me if I’m wrong but the game being in UE5 makes it way more optimized and just overall run better?
Hey Greg. So happy to see you doing this. I'm a huge VR enthusiast and ARK super fan and I want nothing more than to merge the two. Someone else is making a UE5 Injector mod for VR so any game on UE5 will get VR support. So with that, are you actually going to release a UE5 version of ARK 1?? Please say yes.
The Minecraft foot step sounds get to me 🤣
too many stoneses
I've always wanted to see the moon and the sun
It was somthing that always bothered me that ark had a day and night cycle but you could never actually see the sun and the moon