Players / 4 – 8
Released / 08-09-2023
Version / 1.0
Download / On demand only, read further below how to get the file
Checksum / d3548ac0820871c67e03c4ba3b0ec165

Story / Histoire

A place…a time…a civilization…that no longer exists. Today, in this mystical place, another era ends, the last fighters of a civilization clash… will you be forgotten too?

Un lieu… une époque… une civilisation… qui n’existe plus. Aujourd’hui, en ce lieu mystique, s’achève une autre époque, les derniers combattants d’une civilisation s’affrontent… seras-tu toi aussi oublié?

A little video that shows some tricks

Installation

Put the files into

Local Drive:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\UnrealTournament\Saved\Paks\DownloadedPaks or
Local Drive:\UT4\UnrealTournament\UnrealTournament\Content\Paks

If this directory is not currently on your system, you can safely create it.

Details

Layout ; I inspired myself from one of my UT3 favorite, DM-Calahan 2 made by Glator.

Gameplay ; This relatively small level can be played in duel, accommodate well 4 players in DM and 6 to 8 in TDM. This is my first level to use a style of play where the player can walk between trees and branches, where the trees are not just decoration around the level but part of the playing field.

Visuals ; I opted for an organic and whimsical style. I successfully imported the Fantasy Cave Environment Set. Therefore, it only contains 26 static meshes, it’s a tiny pack! There are no materials included for a landscape and nothing to fill them with. Since the pack doesn’t contain anything organic like grass, plants, trees, etc., I chose to import various Megascans assets. The landscape material had to match the Fantasy Cave assets and was created by mixing various textures from several ‘Iceland’ packs. Besides the rocks, the stones also come from other ‘Iceland’ packs. The trees are from the ‘Black Alder‘ pack, the plants from the ‘Lush plants‘ pack. I also created 2 particles, one for the fireflies (if you get close enough, you can quickly see them flapping their wings) and another that replaces the default Jumpad. For the Jumpad, I searched quite a bit before I could find something cool with a moon inside that goes with the hieroglyphs.

All the assets are beautiful, on the other hand, the models are very large (MB) and the textures are huge (native 8K), so it didn’t take long for the pak file to be gigantic! Believe it or not, despite the large file size, the majority of textures resolutions are set to 2K or 1K or even lower, unlike their native resolution. The fact that I had to create different LOD levels for all the assets in order for the level to be playable contributes to the file size increase, unfortunately. Originally, the pak weighed over 3 GB. Now it’s 1.36 GB. The landscape shadows were also a real headache to make them look nice and accurate. I had to find various solutions online and do a lot of lighting edits to get the desired result.

The level feature the awesome music track ‘Deep’ by Fabian Joosten.

Note, for all my levels I use Temporal AA since it offers the best visuals.

How to get the file?

If you want to play this level, let me know by going to my About page, then you can email me. I will get back to you as soon as possible and provide you with a download link where all my levels and readme are. You can also go to my FB page and ask me privately 🙂