Chrome Engine 4 Level Editor - ChromED

    Hi,

    ChromED - Level editor for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (Chrome Engine 4) is comming! Soon you'll be able to download ChromED in Community Pack with with video tutorials, documentation and example maps. This is the list of pack content:

    Visit http://www.cojmodding.com for more info, tutorials, custom maps for COJ:BiB and more!

    I so want to try that editor... maybe in a few weeks when my life settles a little.

    That vid is amazing!! Man, that looks so much fun!

    You guys had a competition going on right? How did that went?

    wow yea hthat sure looks great and easy to use !

    but how come none of these insane wysiwyg editors are taking off ?!

    i mean farcry 2 doesn't really have a huge mapping following right ? because they editor demos looks just like this ! and same with crysis

    WYSWIG editors are supporting only new titles so mappers that are working in VHE, UED or GTKR need to get used to new mapping technique. It's a lot different (no BSP, brushwork and static lightning) but still it's fun

    Nice tool! It's cool to have modular editors like this these days but it's obviously very tricky for amatures to make the kind of unique art assets to conform to all the rules. That is if you're trying to make something unique not just slap together stuff like in this video.

    How are the cinematics and scripting tools?

    Here are some tutorials:

    http://www.cojmodding.com/?id=tutorials

    There are only basics in scripting but soon there will be more tutorials.

    BTW. Chriss, there are three types of mappers:

    1 - mappers that are just using models to create funny/stupid environment

    2 - mappers that are using models to create interesting and realistic environment

    3 - mappers that are creating custom models to create unique environments

    It's sad that there's lack of third type mappers in COJ:BiB...

    Quote from Warby

    but how come none of these insane wysiwyg editors are taking off ?!

    i mean farcry 2 doesn't really have a huge mapping following right ? because they editor demos looks just like this ! and same with crysis

    Maybe because its more fun to be creative in an oldschool editor as a hobbyist. These new type of editors are fantastic for professional work when a constant flow of new assets is coming in daily and when you work under time pressure. But they take away from the creative freedom if you are not a good 3d artist also. And doing assets yourself is very time consuming and you have to be damn good already to create some nice looking stuff.

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    Maybe because its more fun to be creative in an oldschool editor as a hobbyist. These new type of editors are fantastic for professional work when a constant flow of new assets is coming in daily and when you work under time pressure. But they take away from the creative freedom if you are not a good 3d artist also. And doing assets yourself is very time consuming and you have to be damn good already to create some nice looking stuff.

    My opinion exactly!

    Working on a Crysis level that needs quite a lot of custom content, I can't be expected to create anything as good as the original game or what recent games are up to. To create a unique and detailed map in these engines, you'd need to be part of a team, with level designers and env artists working together.

    Yes, in old map editors there was only one guy that did all the level work. Now we have environment artists, gameplay designers/scripters, level designers and so on...

    Anyway, I think it's not so hard to make a map in ChromED

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