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.

Halo Forerunner materials / textures pack

After a private request, I thought that “why not gather all of Halo Forerunner materials / textures I have on my HDD and share it with the world so mappers can create Halo themed maps once again?!”

A bit of history…

We’re in 2010, this new pack is release as “Forerunner asset pack” by Teltaur for UT3 on Epic forums. It’s the first and only public release by Teltaur. There is only materials in this pack. It’s the 1.0 release.

After few talks with Teltaur, he told me he intent to release a full update pack, a v 2.0 if you like because he want to add textures in the 1.0 pack, optimize some and so on. After I helped him, in private, he kindly provide me the tweaked / optimize textures in TGA files he was working on instead of adding them to the existing 1.0 pack. I use the textures for my map DM-Amyrade 🙂

We’re now in July 2016 and those materials, textures are pretty impossible to find! I’ve compiled all Teltaur’s materials / textures in this package so everyone can use them 😀 The original preview material can’t be found anymore so I choose my DM-Amyrade map so you can have a idea of what the textures look like. Even today, with UE4, mappers can create fantastic looking maps 🙂

Download the new pack here. In the archive, there is 2 directories :

Materials : Teltaur original UPK file, 1.0.
Textures : all optimized and new textures, 2.0.

Have fun!

Making of CTF-LostTomb by Chris Kay

Chris Kay, an Epic employee, started working on a new level for an experimental game mode 🙂 This time, he decided to record himself working on it. He produce a commentary style videos of it’s development and every session was fully captured. The videos have been speed up 5 times because it’s about 30 hours of work! Honestly, the speed works very well so you can understand what is going on with the addition of commentary 😀 There are 6 videos in total but only 5 of 6 as been published yet. Good watching 😉

Prism theory by TSeals

Prism theory is Timothy Seals aka. TSeals latest music track for UT 😀 This new track is relaxing and rushing at the same 🙂

To listen the track, click the YouTube video below. To leave a comment, go at his Epic thread. To download my Flac file from my GoogleDrive, click here. The track as been added to my UT4 custom music collection 🙂

Hydraulics (Mix 3) by MaxCarnage

Hydraulics (Mix 3) is the latest submitted music track by John Maximilian Repka aka. MaxCarnage for DM-Hydraulics 😀

As always, it’s another well made track by Max, a must in your collection 🙂 Follow MaxCarnage on YouTube, listen the track on Soundcloud (WAV download link on SC) and comment at his Epic Thread. You can grab my Flac file here 😉

DM-Underland trailer by Epic Games

Remember DM-Tuba? Well it is now DM-Underland. DM-Underland is a DM level designed for 6 to 8 players. Players fight across a hidden outpost, once lost for a thousand years, that guards the entrance to the massive Underland caverns. The least I can say is that it look gorgeous and as the same mood and look as Unreal 1 😀 Awesome job Epic!

My new map for UT4…

I didn’t thought I’ll be writing this but since ±2 month, I’m playing with the UT4 editor and building a new DM map 😀

In the map making process, instead of making the layout with BSP and then replacing the BSP shell by meshes, I’m directly adding meshes to craft the layout. In the contrary to my previous maps, I don’t have a layout in mind so I’m crafting the layout as far as I go by adding meshes and play with them 🙂

I won’t go trough the standard process neither (alpha-beta-RC-final) but instead release 1 – 2 versions (R1, R2) before the final just for debugging purpose. So, I don’t know when I’ll release the first version (R1) to the public, only time will tell! I’m pretty sure this news will make my readers happy 😉 Now, few renders from the editor 😀

Biotower (2.0) by Jo.7

Biotower (2.0) is the latest music track by Kristian Huuki aka. Jo.7 😀 Listen the track on Soundcloud, comment at his Epic thread, and download my Flac file (made from the WAV) here 🙂

Free Seamless Textures Generator v. 2 by THE ORANGE BOX

The Free Seamless Textures Generator v. 2 by THE ORANGE BOX is a simple but time-saving Photoshop action. It generates with just one click a seamless pattern from your picture 😀 If you like, directly into the Photoshop pattern palette 🙂 Watch the video to see it in action 😉