Quote from Mitch Mitchell1 hour ago, Mitch Mitchell said: I altered the light map resolution on some stuff...so that needed its own folder and references for it to work without resorting to the defaults.
Hey, you don't really need to create custom duplicates of StaticMeshes to change the lightmap resolution if you don't want to. There is an 'Overrride Lightmap Resolution' setting in the StaticMesh properties where you can set a specific value per mesh without editing the original assets.
Quote from TheGlecter1 hour ago, TheGlecter said: Hey, you don't really need to create custom duplicates of StaticMeshes to change the lightmap resolution if you don't want to. There is an 'Overrride Lightmap Resolution' setting in the StaticMesh properties where you can set a specific value per mesh without editing the original assets.
Oh totally, but I was changing so much that having 'my stuff' in my own folder made more sense than creating potential discombobulation of Epic assets.
Well, I think I've finally detoxed from the last minute crunching to get my map ready. Thanks for running the contest guys! Too bad there's not a special category for "Dad's with full time jobs" :D.
Quote from MauL12 hours ago, MauL said: Well, I think I've finally detoxed from the last minute crunching to get my map ready. Thanks for running the contest guys! Too bad there's not a special category for "Dad's with full time jobs" :D.
Haha, yeah I'm in your situation as well. Except I don't have any kids to take care of. Would be cool if we could have a Mapcore Maps Unreal Tournament server which only hosted our maps. Would be a good incentive for others to finish up their maps as well.
I work 80 hours a week minimum, overnights AND days... no kids, no gf but I make time for things!!!! Such as this.... 
I didn't get the map in a playable state for the competition and there is still more to do on it but with a bunch of other things on I am not sure if I will have the time or inclination to continue - It was great to work on the map but I had my first PC blow up and had to downgrade to a spare and lost some data, went on holiday/honeymoon for 2 weeks and other life things like putting our house on the market - I took a few days off to work on it and still it feels a while away from being 100% complete. I have re-posted the screenshots and spent this weekend trying to iron out the major issues that where blocking me from showing it (although I already found more issues.)
Maybe at some point I will come back to it but I feel completely burned out on this map! In some ways I think I was getting close on others I would want to scrap it and do it again.
Things I still need to do:
Here is the Link to the map.
Epic is currently finalizing the next UT update. Reviewing on their part will start later this week. A little more patience is needed 
Just as long as the new build doesn't break people's paks ;p
I've just had a horrible thought...all accepted finalists are requested to download the new patch, and repackage their maps for testing!
I hope its not an engine update mostly from the Hub management standpoint. I have 40 custom maps on my hub and it's tough to start over each time. They are talking about adding voice so that sounds like an engine update. #prealpha...
well 4.12.5 is out now with may fixes so i wouldnt be suprised if they move to at least that or even 4.13 master branch
Quote Version notes for build released 7/13/2016:
TLDR: Major Changes This Build:
- Titan Pass CTF level visual pass for better clarity and improved performance.
I'm quite concerned about this. One of the last updates changed a bunch of materials and meshes from the content folders, which caused problems in many custom maps that have not been recooked since then. I really hope a recook is not necessary, but I'm creating a backup of some of the Environments folders just in case...
Yeah one of my maps got a bit messed up by previous update; but I think a lot of the recent changes are new content rather than redeveloping the old stuff. Also I believe this build is still on 4.12.
It's not an engine update. I've asked Epic and they've tested if the maps work and they still do. Some very minor issues on a couple of maps but nothing major. Maybe we'll ask one to recook to see what causes it, but nobody needs to be worried
Quote from Sprony12 minutes ago, Sprony said: It's not an engine update. I've asked Epic and they've tested if the maps work and they still do. Some very minor issues on a couple of maps but nothing major. Maybe we'll ask one to recook to see what causes it, but nobody needs to be worried
That's good to know! Did they say what the issues are?
Quote from Sprony1 hour ago, Sprony said: It's not an engine update. I've asked Epic and they've tested if the maps work and they still do. Some very minor issues on a couple of maps but nothing major. Maybe we'll ask one to recook to see what causes it, but nobody needs to be worried
I noticed that some of the Titan Pass assets were edited. My level does not look the same in some parts ... It also seems like that they either changed the water material's (from Titan Pass) name or deleted it. Therefore my meshes that are supposed to be water, use the default dev texture. This is ugly and since it was said we could use existing assets not really my fault.
But since I already changed some things on the level after the deadline it would not be fair to recook and resubmit it either. What do we do about that? 
I'm checking the movement changes with regards to slide/dodge, just to see how it affected the flow throughout the narrow 'high-speed' overpass, but it looks good on paper.
Welp, Maelstrom suffered heavy damage with this update. Had quite a few TitanPass assets. So sad... looks like tons of work to fix. Missing materials, messed up UV mapping on TitanPass meshes, missing meshes etc.
Quote from MauL15 minutes ago, MauL said: Welp, Maelstrom suffered heavy damage with this update. Had quite a few TitanPass assets. So sad... looks like tons of work to fix. Missing materials, messed up UV mapping on TitanPass meshes etc.
I feel your pain ... that is really shitty.
Owch, this does not sound any good... but I haven't updated yet!
Perhaps I can help you guys out... Tell me about the assets that are giving you trouble, and I will try to upload a file with the old versions of them...
I would appreciate if someone checked that my map is alright, though...
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