Importing Google Maps into Unreal Engine 5 isn’t just a concept or dream, but rather a real possibility, thanks to the Cesium plugin. You’ll need either Unreal Engine 5.1 or 5.2, the Cesium plugin from the Epic Launcher marketplace, and access to the Google Maps API.
Once you have all of those items, simply create the initial scene in Unreal Engine, set the date and solar time of day before loading Google Maps API in the tiles of the map. Once the Maps API licenses are properly set up, you can start generating Google Maps Terrain in Unreal Engine 5, whether it be the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Shard London Bridge.
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Using Web APIs in Unreal Engine has been made lots easier with the HttpBlueprint and JSON Blueprint Utilities. With these modules, anyone can use these APIs without writing a single line of code. Because of the asynchronous character of the requests, it’s important to use an event-driven design, but with the event dispatchers and the ability to bind callbacks to these events, this doesn’t require much effort,” said the developer.
