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DM-Cruel post # 3

Dev is going slowly as you might expect, but still, I’m progressing. I put the map a bit on the side since I started DM-Thaq.

Now, I’m working on the last area of the map, the Shock room (showed in the yellow rectangle) which I started to mesh. It’s hard meshing a map with those assets (I know, I’m repeating myself lol).

So for now, the room is extremely basic but I wanted you to see how much work left I have to do to obtain a nice look. I have ideas to test and I need to finish the meshing before starting the lighting.

My new map with Mothership service rooms assets

Hello,

Now that I bought the Mothership service rooms assets. It’s time to use them 😀

First, there are assets I really don’t understand their use. Like a vent that you can’t see outside when you’re in it. It’s logical, but since they are half size the player, I don’t intent to use them for traveling… There another mesh which is a wall corner but doesn’t have the wall to go with it… Bah, at least there as many great assets I can play with and make an entire level out of those meshes 😀

I took a break from DM-Cruel and start my new map. It’s called DM-Thaq. And I’m happy to finally create something futuristic AND also dirty. It won’t be a big level. Something to accomodate 8 players max. Since past friday night, I worked on this room to finally finish it and I’m satisfied by the result so I’m happy to share the pics with the world 🙂

Preview build quality

Full build quality

Enjoy and let me know what you think 😉

DM-Cruel post # 2

Dev is going veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly… but still, it is progressing 🙂

It’s hard to mesh the map with those assets. They look awesome but man, it’s hard!

Anyway, I post this pic just to give an idea of the actual look. Note that I added a skylight but for a reason I can’t explain it isn’t active?! I never saw that in any of my previous maps.

Crosshair Pack by GameUI

A free to use Crosshair Pack that contain 30 high resolution crosshairs by GameUI 😀 For download, head over Gumroad.

In more details, this pack contains :

– 20 rifle crosshairs.
– 10 sniper crosshairs.
– Crosshairs in stunning 4K quality.
– On top of that as vector files.

DM-Cruel post # 1

Dev is going slowly…

I honestly found it very hard to mesh the map base on the Modular SciFi Season 2 Starter Bundle.

When you look at the demo maps, everything is looking awesome because all of the assets are a part of the scene and all fit together. Therefore, when building a UT4 map, you just simply can’t reproduce a cool scene in the demo map in UT4, it would be way to easy. You must use of A LOT of imagination & mapping skill to create a map that look awesome without looking to boring & repetitive. Many meshes are made to use in a certain way and using them in another way doesn’t work at all. So I’m very limited in the way of using the meshes. For example, I have access to 158 meshes in all but can use only around 5 for walls, 4 for floor and ceiling. All the remaining are for deco.

Anyway, I’m doing my best to build a remarkable level. Meanwhile, you get a pic of the layout and 2 on mostly finished areas 🙂

DM-Coda, final release!

The final version of DM-Coda is here 😀

This is what as been done for the final version :

  • Added more decals. Also, they are visible only in High and Epic mode.
  • Added Redeemer. Grab it by doing a WallJump or WallRun. It add lot’s of fun!
  • Added rocks above the roof windows in the Invisibility sector.
  • Changed ingame preview pic.
  • Changed music track.
  • Manually set culling on a huge amount of static meshes all across the map to obtain more performances by reducing draw calls. That was a very, very long process since the map have 5 410 static meshes.
  • Map size dropped from 601 MB to 250 MB!!! Imagine, a 351 MB reduction 😮 I obtained that magic size by adjusting all textures LOD Bias. The map use roughly 400 textures! After many tweaking, they’re mostly appear in 1024 x 1024 quality ingame instead of 2K / 4K with a very minor visual quality loss. THX to MoxNix suggestion, I wasn’t aware of that setting and it made a drastic difference for map size while maintaining a excellent visual quality if set right 😀
  • Remeshed the Rocket Launcher windows. I wasn’t 100% satisfied from R1.
  • Performed a full lighting build, production level quality.
  • Tweak post process volume to get nice occlusion from far rocks and subtle grain effect all across the map.

Moloch map pack 8 for UT3 released

For those who still play UT3,  Moloch map pack 8 as been release 🙂 All maps as been made by Michail ‘Moloch’ Levchinko. As always, you can expect unique looking maps 😀

Requirements :

– Unreal Tournament 3 Patch 2.1 with Titan pack.

This pack contains :

CTF-Gravitator
CTF-Leviathan
CTF-Pancercoven
CTF-Xenomania 2
DM-Gravitator
DM-Leviathan
DM-Monorail
DM-Monorail NE
DM-Panzercoven
DM-Pancercoven Necro
DM-SpaceWanderer (Hyperneros new version)
DM-XonX-SpaceWanderer
DM-Xenomania 2

Grab the pack here 😀 Head over Epic to leave your comments 🙂

More at his Epic thread 🙂

DM-Coda, R1 release!

Release 1 of DM-Coda is here 😀 It will be the only release before the final.

Be warned, map size is big, 600 MB. Therefore, taking into account the huge amount of custom assets included into this level, it’s not surprising.

To give me your feedback, please, post your comments here, in this post. I won’t share it on the UT4 forums. I hope to read ya!

TY and have fun 🙂