{"id":2448322,"date":"2024-08-01T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2448322"},"modified":"2024-08-14T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:28:04","slug":"announcing-arcgis-maps-sdk-1-6-for-unreal-engine","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/unreal-engine\/developers\/announcing-arcgis-maps-sdk-1-6-for-unreal-engine","title":{"rendered":"Announcing ArcGIS Maps SDK 1.6 for Unreal Engine"},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,37101,738191],"tags":[757151,768222,560942,23571,261172],"industry":[],"product":[766242,36601],"class_list":["post-2448322","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-announcements","category-developers","tag-arcgis-maps-sdk-for-unreal-engine","tag-arcgis-maps-sdks-for-game-engines","tag-game-engines","tag-whats-new","tag-xr","product-unreal-engine","product-developers"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":5171,"user_firstname":"Michael","user_lastname":"Branscomb","nickname":"Mike Branscomb","user_nicename":"mbranscomb","display_name":"Mike Branscomb","user_email":"MBranscomb@esri.com","user_url":"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:51","user_description":"Mike Branscomb is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps and ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines. With over 20 years of experience working in the Esri ecosystem, he specializes in .NET, Local Server, and 3D Scene Layers. Mike is also a Scrum Product Owner with over 10 years of experience guiding teams through the product development lifecycle.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":4091,"user_firstname":"Rex","user_lastname":"Hansen","nickname":"Rex Hansen","user_nicename":"rex-hansen","display_name":"Rex Hansen","user_email":"rhansen@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:41","user_description":"Rex Hansen is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps and ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines. He has over 25 years of experience in GIS, spatial analytics, and computer mapping. Currently, he guides the development of native technologies in the GIS industry to use authoritative geospatial content and analysis in offline workflows, photorealistic experiences, and immersive, extended reality solutions.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":3811,"user_firstname":"Nicholas","user_lastname":"Furness","nickname":"Nicholas Furness","user_nicename":"nfurness","display_name":"Nick Furness","user_email":"NFurness@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/developers.arcgis.com","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:26","user_description":"Nick Furness is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps, and ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines, specializing in Swift and iOS. He's spent over 25 years working in the GIS space building projects ranging from small mom-and-pop solutions all the way up to enterprise utility and national government deployments. Nick presents at various Esri Developer Summits, the User Conference, and many other events, almost always talking about something to do with the Native Maps SDKs (although you might find the odd bit of JavaScript thrown in there).","user_avatar":""},{"ID":276952,"user_firstname":"Shimona","user_lastname":"Lahiri","nickname":"Shimona Lahiri","user_nicename":"shimona-lahiri","display_name":"Shimona Lahiri","user_email":"slahiri@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2021-09-14 16:48:37","user_description":"Shimona is a product marketer working with ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines and Native Apps. With an undergrad degree in Psychology and an M.S. in Marketing, she is a digital marketing polymath and loves to craft interesting stories for her audience to enjoy.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine 1.6 includes terrain alignment of actors, support for Unreal Engine 5.4, plus Esri's latest basemap styles","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The latest version of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine simplifies aligning your actors with the terrain surface, includes even more basemap styles, and adds support for Unreal Engine 5.4!<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Actor surface placement<\/h3>\n

You can now simplify how you set the altitude of Actors in your Unreal Engine Levels by choosing to place them on the ground or position them relative to the ground, with their height\u00a0 automatically calculated based on the elevation surface you choose for your terrain. Previously, to position your actors in relation to the ground surface, you had to perform individual raycast operations to determine the elevation value for each object and explicitly set the Z value. By eliminating the need for individual raycast calls, surface placement improves efficiency and speeds up the placement process. The new surface placement feature on the ArcGIS Location component is optimized for high performance and is especially valuable in large projects where many actors need to be positioned simultaneously in real-time. Surface placement functionality automatically updates as elevation Levels of Detail (LOD) load or update, ensuring that objects maintain their specified altitude relative to the ground.<\/p>\n

The three options for setting altitude are:<\/p>\n