Lost Skies: Island Creator

A very chill floating island creator, free to own, that is easy to play around with. Wish navigating the island creation process was better, going "up and down" from the side view should work better than it does. Occasionally crashes, can't wait for more updates and more improvements and assets!

This review isn't to say it's a "bad" editor, nor should this reflect on the official title this Island Creator is for. This review is here to say that, in its current state at least, the Lost Skies Island Creator has weird choices and issues that make picking it up more annoying and difficult. The biggest issue for me: A majority of the objects you can use are inconsistently scaled. Walls that are meant to be for ruined buildings are so large that they massively overscale the player, compared to rubble that is supposed to go with it being far too small. There is a rescaling option so you can make them a size that feels better, but to do that with every single prop to make something that feels consistently scaled is an unrealistic ask. Design wise, this Island Creator is similar to the one for Worlds Adrift. If you have experience with that one, you'll have an easier time adjusting to this one. The tools you have to work with in this one, while pretty expansive, isn't intuitive to use. The sculpting tools, especially the flatten tool, are finicky. You will have problems adjusting the island geometry with them. The default shortcut for the lighting preview is set to the "Del" key, which is the same key you use for deleting objects. This will result in multiple lighting changes from unlit to lit everytime you delete an object. And no, you can't remap the controls. The "Ground Object" and "Ground & Surface Align" buttons ignore any/all props, including ruin wall/floor blocks, leading to the button generally not being very helpful in a lot of situations. As nice as the additional lighting effects are, such as bloom and lens flare, they remain active at all times, including in the unlit option, making building in the direction of the sun a bit more annoying. There's also plenty of missing props that would be helpful in making more survivor-made or natural scenes, but those don't really fit for a review that is meant to go over the lesser parts of the editor.