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-Chroma, FPS version planned soon

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.

Overgrown by Trym Roedder

Another over-the-top environment made by Trym Roedder 😀

Shared dig (5.0) by Jo.7

Shared Dig (5.0) is the latest update by Kristian Huuki aka. Jo.7 😀 Listen the track on Soundcloud and comment at his Epic thread 🙂

I also upload the track to my custom music collection so my readers can enjoy a true lossless listening and you can also download all the tracks. All tracks are encoded in Flac from the original WAV provided by all the authors 😉

Free PBR textile materials pack by Tomas Buran

This HQ PBR textile materials pack made by Tomas Buran contains 8 realistic photoscanned tillable textile materials at 4K resolution in high quality. There is also a Substance Painter materials (.sbsar files) very easy to use. All of them were enhanced with Substance Designer 🙂

Download on Gumroad & use discount code : freeholidays


Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noël 2019!!!

Merry Christmas to all 😀 ! ! !

Have a good time and have fun. Take advantage of this day to make it memorable. Also, be careful not to eat & drink to much… 😉

Joyeux Noel à tous et à toutes 😀 ! ! !

Passez du bon temps puis ayez du plaisir! Profitez de cette journée afin qu’elle soit mémorable. Aussi, faites attention de ne pas trop bouffer puis trop boire non plus 😉

DM-Coda, progress…

DM-Coda is shaping out nicely. I’m at ±50% done I think? Next area’s to craft are the Minigun, Shock and RL areas. I don’t like the original RL layout so I don’t know yet what I’ll do. I’m also keeping the Invisibility pickup for now and made a big room for it (showed in the second pic).

When the map play area will be completed, then, I’ll start working on the exterior “scenery” aspect. For now, it’s totally empty. You can see there are many new meshes in those pics! Enjoy the dev 🙂

Bio area

Invisibility area

Link area

UT4 Converter 0.9.2 by xtremexp released !

For anyone who would like to convert old Unreal / UT’s maps to UT4, this is the tool to use 😀 The tool isn’t perfect BUT is extremely helpful. To learn more, head over xtremexp Epic thread.

Epic Games and Quixel join forces to empower creators

This is quite a biiiiiiiiiiiiig news for anyone who would like to use AAA assets but don’t have the money to afford them 😀

Like in my case, I map for fun and always like to use new assets in a new map. Therefore, since the UT4 editor is really old, it’s quite a pain & a long process to recreate everything from scratch in the editor since I simply can’t export / import them easily from UE4 Editor to UT4 Editor, specially the materials. And HQ materials are very complicated to recreate when starting from scratch 😦 Here is the original announce :

“Today we are thrilled to announce that Quixel, creator of the world’s largest photogrammetry asset library and bundled toolset, has joined the Epic Games family!

Founded in 2011 by Teddy Bergsman and Waqar Azim, Quixel is headquartered in Sweden, and over 100 employees across six countries worldwide are joining the Epic Games team. Quixel’s products include Megascans, an extensive library of 2D and 3D photogrammetry assets, supported by companion applications Bridge and Mixer. 

Around the world, leading game developers, filmmakers, and visualization specialists use Quixel Megascans assets to craft blockbuster games (Metro Exodus, Destiny 2, Battlefield V), animated entertainment (The Jungle Book, Black Panther, The Lion King, Pacific Rim: Uprising), and lifelike scenes through high-quality content and access to a vast array of tools. 

“Building photorealistic 3D content is an expensive endeavor in game development and film production. By coming together with Quixel to make Megascans free for all use in Unreal Engine, this level of artistry is now available to everyone from triple-A studios to indies,” said Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney.

“Our mission at Quixel has always been to make the world more accessible for everyone through ultra-high resolution scanning. As part of Epic Games, we’re now able to accelerate this vision as we grow the Megascans library, speed up the development of Bridge and Mixer, and improve integrations with all major 3D software and renderers,” said Quixel Co-founder Teddy Bergsman.

As part of making the Quixel Megascans library of more than 10,000 assets free for all use with Unreal Engine, ten high-resolution packs have been shared today for free on the Unreal Engine Marketplace, as well as assets from the popular Iceland collection used in the “Rebirth” cinematic short. Additional asset packs will be made available for free on the Marketplace at a future date within the Unreal Engine 4.24 release timeframe.”