Hey all,

Release 1 of DM-Coda is near 😀

In fact, meshing, lighting, post processing, music, ambient sounds, blocking volume are all done. What remain to be done is :

1. Optimizing the map by culling meshes. This is a long process because I do that manually to get the best optimization. Culling volume won’t be useful in this type of environment. It will take me some weeks to accomplish.
2. Gather players feedback so I can fix issues, if present. I hope the community will participate in the process!
3. Make full production lighting build for the finale.

File size will be big. As mention in the map page : I’m reusing the Modular SciFi Season 1 Starter Bundle for this map and I also add many, many new assets I didn’t use the last time in DM-Chroma. I also use another new set of rock meshes for the outside / scenery of the map which I’ve showed in this post. In all, it’s a lot of textures, materials and static meshes. Which means, the final file size is rather big, sadly. It’s around 605 MB. Still, once the map is on your HDD/SSD, the size doesn’t matter.

I can honestly say that I have a great time playing on it! I truly enjoy playing TDM with 12 players 🙂 I get this old UT nostalgic feeling while enjoying new gameplay elements. For me, a good mix of old school stuff and new stuff! I plan the release for this w-e or Friday 20th. Stay tune.

Hello all,

Since the release of DM-Chroma final version. I work non stop on DM-Coda. When I play both of them, even if I’m enjoying very much playing my maps on my main PC, I can’t say the same on my laptop (you can check my pc’s specs here). So, I’ve decide to release a less demanding version of DM-Chroma and maybe DM-Coda too, I’ll see. It depend of the community feedback.

Therefore, there is no magic trick. The only way I can obtain more FPS is by redoing the lighting. And the reason why DM-Chroma look crisp & clean is mainly because the majority of light actors are Stationary instead of Static. After few trials, Static lighting combine with the materials in use in this map is looking, well… hummm… dull & flat. But maybe it’s because of this obsolete engine version, I don’t know.

Still, I hope players with lower end GPU’s would appriciate playing the FPS version. The actual version simply can’t look better with UE4 v. 4.15 and don’t expect the FPS to look as good, it can’t. I expect the FPS release soon, maybe friday.