ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Temp Building Mod
drew.j.dunn Jul 29, 2016 @ 7:42am
Structure Sizes
This mod is awesome for placing structures in game and truly seeing what they will look and feel like. It is also great for creating cheap scaffolding that can be broken down with very little effort to allow building awesome bases.

I have been looking for a long time for a tool I can use outside the game to think through possible base designs and arrangement of structures inside. I wouldn't mind using a CAD tool or even PowerPoint to conceptualize things first. The main problem is I don't know the sizes of the structures to place.

I have resorted to using graph paper to map things out roughly first before going into the game to use this mod. My problem is that often what I draw out just doesn't fit ... or I've estimated the size of a structure too large, so now it looks silly in the game.

Is there a list of the structures LxWxH sizes in foundation units somewhere to help pre-plan? I would gladly look into the blueprint .uasset files that come with the mod if I could read them! But installing unreal 4 engine is a bit of overkill just to be able to pre-plan.
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Some Gent  [developer] Sep 2, 2016 @ 10:54pm 
My recommendation is to find a flat place on the map and put out a couple of platforms and then test place items on them to get their sizes. Unfortunately, there isn't a size value in the dev kit (the models are of whatever size the creator made, and then they may be scaled in the engine using multipliers)
FreeFallingRN Jan 20, 2017 @ 10:11am 
Most structures bigger then 1 square have a size on the ark wiki, the smaller once dont.
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