I’m happy and proud to announce the final release of my first 100% BSP based made DM map, Amyrade 😀

You can visit and leave your feedback directly on my official map page or on Epic forums or on UOF forums 🙂 Have fun !

I’m happy to announce that my DM-Amyrade map will be release this Friday night 😀

I’ve been working on this map since January 2011. Alpha 1 was release the 16Th. After almost 2 years in the making, it will be release, finally !

I was wondering if I would be able to finish it in the first place, like CTF-Citius, it’s a long dev time, much to long and after a while, I wasn’t sure to see the light at the end of the tunnel. While this map as nothing spectacular, I’m trying to do something different with all my maps to make them unique 😀

The map count around 3 110 brushes, which is insane for a small DM map. That amount of brushes is more appropriate for CTF/VCTF/WAR since you double the brush count, having 2 sides. But for a small DM like this, it’s one of the most heavy DM map in the UT3 world concerning brush count. I must say that since I’m not using any meshes (except the skysphere), I must rely on BSP to add details, which is why I had to add many many brushes since I like detailed maps.

I must say I learn how to use more the brush builder, which will serve me well in my upcoming maps 🙂

I’ll be happy to hear from you when the map will be release 😉

This post is concerning the availability of my DM-Mariane level 😀

You can find all the info at my official page. For feedback, please post your comments at my dev thread on Unreal Old Friends forums 🙂

THX for your time and commenting at my UOF thread 😉

This post is concerning my next level 😀

Story : Mariane is the name of a famous tough Necris female, a well known fighter who as won all of the fights in this desolated place… well at least, not the last one, it can’t goes like that forever… The place was call Mariane after her death in the honor of this great fighter.

Since it’s more convenient to show the dev and gather comments on a forum rather then my blog, I’ve made a dev thread on UOF that I intent to update once in a while.

This is what the level is all about :

– I’ll use simple meshing for the deco. I mean nice to look at but not to much meshes witch result in heavy polycount. Few houses, towers and simple architectures with arches here & there.
– I’ll use some of the Necris assets only. The one I found to be the nicer for my taste (I don’t like much of them but I found some to look awesome lol).
– I’ll use meshes that have the Turkish look & will apply a clean material so it contrast more with the dark rock material. Only the Belt area will use some damaged / burned material. I’ll use clean BSP floor too.
– I’ll use many blue trims, floor tiles to add more contrast to the scene which I really love.
– No saturation & a nice color mix of yellow to red for the surrounding with a blue tint for the shadows.
– No ugly tentacles nor green stuff nor green fog. Classic look all the way instead (orange – blue). The lower part of the fog is orange while the higher part is blue.
– For a change, I’ll go for a lava theme, something new for me 🙂

I don’t have any planned release date yet. At least I can say I started this level right after DM-Mégane was released and I work on it in my spare time.

THX for following and commenting my UOF thread 😉

Another awesome map from Mclogenog 😀

Official site, BU, Epic

From the author :

DM-Dethen is a level for UT3, designed for fast-paced, two player matches. The design of Dethen is a response in varying degrees to community levels from previous Unreal Tournaments.