Author: Stevelois

Unreal and Unreal Tournament are my all time top PC games. My website is dedicated to all HQ stuff related to the Unreal / UT world.

DM-Aly, 1.3 available

I’ve made few updates to DM-Aly. Grab the latest versions at my map page.

There are few reasons why I made an update. Some little things bugged me and there are others I wanted to address. Those are the main enhancements for this 1.3 version :

  • Fix AI not covering the ground level well. Per example, bots didn’t use the door in front of the Belt at the ground level to pickup the KEG, they was always going by the other entrance under the Flak.
  • Made a unique JumpPad to replace the stock one.
  • Pass trough all blocking volume (added many et tweak others) so the play area is more accurate and cleaner.
  • Remove the stock decals under all medium health and armors.
  • Remove the stock static mesh under all weapons.
  • Tweak fog.
  • Tweak many static mesh collisions and also LODs.
  • Tweak Post Process volume. It look even better than before! Level look brighter, more detailed, sharper 😀
  • Tweak the sun.
  • Rebuild lighting, production quality.

You can clearly see the difference between the previous 1.2 version and the new 1.3 version 🙂

I’ve decided to include all stock meshes, materials, material instances, material functions and textures into the map. So the uncooked map is 2.5 GB. Therefore after many optimization and tweaks, the cooked file is 606 MB instead of 417 MB from the previous version which only contains custom stuff. I know, it’s bigger… but I made that since I don’t know what will happen to UT4 assets with the upcoming UE5 release in 2022. I don’t want to take any chance of ending with an unplayable level after all the time I invest in it because Epic decided to modify or remove UT4 content to a possible UT5 alpha game release. At least, if they decide to remove UT4 editor, who knows, the level will stay fully functional 🙂

El Dorado by Jhosep Chevarria Capacoila

Jhosep Chevarria Capacoila made this El Dorado scene playing around with Megascans, Nanite, and Lumen with hardware raytracing on RTX 3090 😀

Samurai garden by Sergio Merêces

Samurai garden by Sergio Merêces was for testing out the new UE5 and the awesome features 😀

Unreal Engine 5 Early Access Educator Guide

After the release of UE5 few days ago, today, Epic released the Unreal Engine 5 Early Access Educator Guide for everyone who wish to learn well all the new features the engine have to offer 😀

Forbidden Prologue by Lucas TC

I present you Forbidden Prologue, this nicely made short film by Lucas TC. Really great work!!! 😀

Oblivion by Thilo Seifert

Oblivion, by Thilo Seifert is a short but lovely UE movie. The models and materials are amazing 😀

DMX Light Show by ViZmo Designing Motion

I present you DMX Light Show, by ViZmo Designing Motion.

First time I see UE for this kind of animation / presentation. The result is VERY cool and convincing. The music is a well chosen track, it as lot’s to offer 🙂

Really great work!!! 😀

The Black Swan by Gianpietro Fabre

The Black Swan, is a lovely cinematic made by Gianpietro Fabre. Models and materials looks awesome! Really like the splash / waves effect of how water react to the movement of the ship 🙂 The music fits like a glove too. Really awesome work 😀