Malevolence, my first time trying to break down a level to learn level design

I've never done a level with a floorplan. I tried before, but neve finished it. I though to myself "Why not pick up an existing level?". The plan is to blockout in UE5 and then run some design analysis about item placement, flow, etc. The idea is to not focus on visuals, env art.

The purpose of this work it to have a blockout level in my portfolio with comments. I decided to pick up an existing map to skip the "I want an original idea". This is a very small map to make it easier.

My portfolio already includes levels but none have a blockout and they are all more visually pleasing than focusing on design, which is what I wanted to do.

The floorplan

I already wrote everything and resolved some UE5 crash. It seems that by having save lod packages to HLOD .... is the culprit that was causing frequent D3D crashes. Disabled it. After I finished the blockout I can publish the article.

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Found out what causes so many crashes in UE5. Start a new project, but don't make your map in the starter map. Create a new basic map. It's world partition that makes UE5 D3D crash so often and causes many many rollbacks out of the blue. Problems with saving which later cause the map to lose hours of edits.

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Quote from blackdog

On 5/13/2023 at 11:43 AM, blackdog said: Hey @0kelvin is that your portfolio or you have another website? I can’t find a “maps” section that just shoes the work. But I think to renege you posted in the past?

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