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Welcome to today's Fortnite Creative AMA! We're looking forward to all your questions and will answer as much as we can over the course of the next hour.
EDIT: We're out of time! Thank you to everyone who came and asked questions. We appreciate the enthusiasm you share with us for Creative!
Who's here?
- Zookeeperzak - Creative Development Director
- frukostkungen - Tech Artist
- BrownFort - Developer Relations
- Timorous_Beastie - Gameplay Designer
Thanks to those who had questions yesterday. Here they are with their answers. Ask away!
When will we get fishing rods / motorboats in creative?A: They are on the list to be added as soon as we can get water working in the way we feel works for creative. We’re not sure on the exact timing yet.
Are there any plans for prop merging?A: We’re talking about solutions to allow creators to create their own prefabs, setting up the quickbar to save between sessions is the first step towards this work. Longer term we’re hoping to find ways to optimize prefabs for memory and rendering speed.
Will there ever be a feature where you can choose a skin in your locker and apply it to a team? Or maybe even just like effects such as glows or something to distinguish players in an infection gamemode or something.A: We are adding new team glows in an upcoming release to help with team based games.
Will we get the tilted town prefabs? Especially since it’s now gone?A: Tilted Town prefabs are on the list to get into Creative.
Any chance we can get customizable barriers for weather effects (rain, fog, snow, etc) as well as barriers for filters and time of the day?A: We have a design for a new time of day device as well as including some weather effects. We haven’t started work on it yet.
Any plans for more terrain pieces, or potentially terrain editor?A: Terrain is consistently towards the top of our list of features we want to expand further. We have several terrain-related initiatives in the works. These things are in very early development at this point.
Are we getting a Creative Roadmap?A: There’s no plan to provide a roadmap. Our work changes frequently and we don’t want to set expectations on timing and disappoint anyone.
Are we gonna get some kind of 'Painting device' to turn things into the color we want?A: It’s on our radar! We’ve worked on a tool prototype that swaps materials/textures.
Playing featured islands directly from the game mode selection menu could make a huge difference. What do you think about it?A: This is a cool idea. We’ve talked about multiple solutions we’ll see what the future holds.
Can we please get custom rift zones? Those would be so cool!!A: Yes, there is work being done towards providing more options to allow custom rift zones in Creative.
Are there any plans to add the option to alter the Brightness/time of day/fog during a game.A: Yes, there are designs to allow modifying time of day and lighting during games.
Will we be seeing more Creative Event Challenges in the future? The Halloween ones were awesome and I hope you continue to do them!A: We’re glad you liked it! We’re hoping to continue to deliver Creative Challenges.
Will we get upgrade stations in Creative?A: We’ve talked about adding the Upgrade Benches an option. First on the list though is water, fishing, and motorboats.
Any idea why these guns haven’t been added to Creative yet?
- Legendary tac smg
- All fishing items (except the 3 fish)A: Fishing is planned to be added. Don’t expect all items to be added to creative, and do let us know what you’d be excited to have and see.
Prefabs and Galleries are pretty crowded now as we continue to get more and more and making it harder to find. Any news about the redesign of this menu, making it easier to find the gallery you want or better yet, some way to get the items apart instead of throwing the whole gallery?A: Agreed! We’re working on a pretty major update to the Content Browser that we’re hoping to release in the near future. We won’t have the ability to break things “apart” in the initial release, but we agree that something like that would be really valuable. We have something along those lines in the works, it just needs a bit more testing and refinement before we can determine if it’s ready to be released.
Are there going to be more Creative-exclusive prefabs like the military base and haunted house ones?A: Yes! We’re working towards adding more and more things that aren’t already existing within Fortnite.
Are there any plans to add a weapon customizer device to alter the weapon damage of items in my game?A: We have some designs for a weapon customizer. We haven’t quite nailed it yet, and we’re still working through some design challenges, so don’t expect this feature anytime soon.
Chests are subject to the loot pool of BR. Can we get a device that gives us the ability to choose the loot pool from chests?A: Having a way to set loot from chests would be awesome. We’ll see what we can do.
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