UT4

Epic Games and Mapcore’s UT level design contest – maps

Following my first post about Epic Games and Mapcore’s UT level design contest, many maps as been submitted 😀 I gather the Epic forums links to all of them in this simple post it is easier to found them all and more importantly provide your feedback to all these LD creators 😉

Alpine by RescueTeamYoshi
Batrankus by G.Lecter
Bridge by kunalht
bTSD by lawlorz
Cascade by Flikswich
Croft by Scinbed
Dropoff by danpaz3d
Enclosure by Ayosso
Exo by tidu
Fall by Vilham
Formidable by Mitch Mitchell
Foundry by Sigmafie
GasDroid by WarpSpasm
H09 by Heresiarch
CTF-Phobos3 by MonsOlympus
Quayside by Crafty
Oxide by Mangley
Rust by Trekz
Thaw by poLemin
Train by -Designer-
TwinFalls by effects69
Vacant by NATO_chrisjm

Again, good luck to all participants!

Epic Games and Mapcore’s Unreal Tournament level design contest

Epic Games is teaming up with Mapcore for their latest level design contest for one of Epic newest gametypes, ‘Showdown’.

There are some great prizes and the Unreal Tournament team will vote for their favorite submissions. The results will be shared during a live stream on the Unreal Tournament Twitch channel.

Depending on how close the entries are to release quality, Epic will evaluate the possibility of adding one or more of the winning entries into the Unreal Tournament Marketplace or even the game.

Should this become a reality, Epic will work directly with the level designer(s) just as was done with Captain Migraine for DM-Lea and Jayoplus for CTF-Pistola.

The prizes are as follows:

First Place: 1 650$ and Epic Swag Bag
Second Place: 850$ and Epic Swag Bag
Third Place: 500$ and Epic Swag Bag
Fourth Place: Honorary Mention and Epic Swag Bag
Fifth Place: Honorary Mention and Epic Swag Bag

For the official rules and more information, head over to Mapcore! You can read more about Showdown here.

Rook and Taye MK2 characters by Kingaz

Playing UT4 and looking for alternate, Epic quality looking characters ? Well, Kingaz as made few Taye skins that are looking as good a own Epic Taye character and even better, they are all available for free 😀 Below, you’ll see Rook, Rook-Slider, Rook-Team Lead and finally Taye MK2 🙂

UT4 mapping in october 2015

How goes the creation of maps by the community for UT4 in october 2015? Frankly, I have never seen so many maps in development for years! Every day, new maps appear in forums and they are so numerous that I have trouble following! This is certainly one of the strongest periods of maps development since UT99, which is saying something strong for a pre-alpha game that is now at its 4th edition in 16 years of history 😀

Just for the remakes, UT4 already count 120 and it continues to increase which is entirely unbelievable considering the game still has the pre-alpha status 🙂 We can easily imagine that with all items in development (GUI, maps, mods, skins, weapons, etc.) that will be added over the years will make UT4 ​​the most popular and most successful of all UTs. A triumph in the FPS world!

For me, knowing that EU4 is free, having experience as a mapper and see all those pretty meshes, it makes me really want to map. However, I have very little time to play UT, so mapping is unfortunately unthinkable 😦 I wish, one day I’ll be able to map again and I would looooooove to remake some of my UT3 maps back in UT4!

Link Gun hi-poly renders

Watching this week stream, I was amazed to see the Link Gun hi-poly renders! Seriously, YemYam modeling skills are fantastic 😀 Still, the colors aren’t set yet. As YemYam mentioned in the Link Gun dev thread “This is NOT the material look, although for the in game version we did stick with something similar yet more weathered, and of course logos and decals and stuff that bring the design some life. We kept it a little on the plain side because we loved all of the paint-overs and color variants so we want the default to be more plain and the custom skins/textures to be more extreme.” So now, the pretty renders 🙂

Rocket Launcher hi-poly renders

Watching this week stream, I was amazed to see the Rocket Launcher hi-poly renders 😀 Seriously, the modeling is fantastic ! Therefore, the colors aren’t set yet. After my post in the Rocket Launcher dev thread. YemYam said “The colors are just for the hi poly only. I kept tweaking it here and there and the renders take a long time so I just gave up. Those renders do not reflect what the in game default model will be, we will make it cool and more color diverse I promise I just didn’t want to waste any more time on hi poly renders when the in game low poly is all that matters!” So, here the pretty renders 🙂

Rocket Launcher alternate skins

Art…

Right after Gooba posted few Rocket Launcher paint-overs, it hasn’t took long that other community members made paint-overs over his paint-overs! I must say they all look fantastic 😀 I’ve took the images, add a tad of contrast and add a little border for my weapon concepts collection and share the pics with you, dear readers 🙂 The first three are by hi-ban and the last by HenrikRyosa. To follow the Rocket Launcher dev, head over here.

Necris female progress and hommage

Art, art, art… once again, I normally don’t post WIP art stuff but… hey, sometime there are things that I found so awesome that I just can’t resist to share them 😀

Watching the last stream (08-19), Chris Perna show us new WIP Necris female. I really like where Epic is going with their model so far. I share the pics I like the most in their full original resolution with a added contour. To see the Necris Ideation (from concept to final in-game execution), click here. If you check on Flickr, you’ll discover ALL the art that as been share so far and honestly, everything look simply amazing! The last pic is an hommage to Shane Caudle Unreal Tournament 1999 painting, the most iconic of all 🙂