Imagining Ark 2 In Unreal Engine 5.1 – The Island – Part 2



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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27 thoughts on “Imagining Ark 2 In Unreal Engine 5.1 – The Island – Part 2”

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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

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