Posts by WD

That's caused by how lighting and shading is done by the engine. This type of level setup would cause problems with shading in any other engine as well. You have all these fragmented models all over the scene and the engine has to draw each of them separately and shading them before they appear into your screen. Look up "drawcalls" and understand how they work.

UE4 isn't just a magical thing that makes everything look awesome whatever you do, it still has a lot of limitations which needs to be taken into consideration.

In this situation either hide your seams behind pillars or make your ceiling, walls, whatever out of single mesh.

I agree with most that have been posted here but I'd also add:

Silent Storm

Myst

Xcom - more like the old one

Battlezone - more like where the space soviets and space yanks get busy in the moon, not with the aliens as in BZ2...

Thanks! the editor started to feel a lot more comfortable now

Signing up for the contest!

Been sinking my teeth into the radiant editor and finally getting used to how to get something done with it. Not easy after being used to the 4 viewports of Hammer for so many years...

Haven't decided yet on the layout or the theme. More of that in the future.

Here's just some doodles.

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Came for the maps, stayed for the Hurg.

Been mostly listening to ambient music so someone who's not really into that might think I like listening to white noise or some trippy shit you listen while your head is full of narcotics. But anyways here's what I like to listen.

Skalpel:

Floex:

Hibernation:

Olan Mill:

Ben Lukas Boysen:

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I love the subtle hint of human skull on the xenomorph.

pff.. and I've been saving myself from seeing anything related to GTA V thinking "next fall they will be releasing the PC version"

Guess it'll still be awhile.

I guess it's safe to put this here since I haven't touched it in 2 years. This is my journey of making my very first map for unreal3 engine for Red orchestra 2 which I was modding back then. This is all from my dropbox folder, too lazy to re-upload everything to a better place. Sorry in advance if the links stop working, etc.

It was supposed to be a Territories map in a thick forest that is only cut by a river and a road. It would only have a few buildings that would serve as main bases for the teams. It never got that far that it had those buildings in place

First started with this to get familiar with the tools.

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Hurray, it's a forest!

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My ground material in action.

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Here's more of the mask I made to get rid of the tiling, It's using a mask texture which looks like an army camoflage which is blended with itself at 1x scale and 10x scale. Then replaced the green with another ground texture.

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Got my hands on some trees, they apparently needed some modifications.

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Here's the trees fixed, they had to be completely remade and lodded to work better in the engine. I made a winter variation for them as well.

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Pine trees from the modding fellows, again modified by me to work in UE3 and ground clutter made by me.

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Ferns.

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Some testing with all the stuff made so far.

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I made a road.

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First actual screenshot of the map itself now that it has some trees and textures in place.

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Some more ground models made by the modding team, again exported and modified to fit UE3 by me.

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Then some grass and rocks. We were planning on making some smaller rocks as a foliage meshes as well. I wish I had made some better looking grass back then.

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Beauty shot.

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My take on making some better looking rocks.

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And here's the last screenshot ever made of the map. I made the sunlight to use real world angles for a summer morning and some fog that would arise from the moisture of the forest.

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Bonus videos:

Little runaround of the map with some shitty music in the backround

Testing Tree destruction

Finished my 2nd playthough because I fucking love this game so much. During this playthrough I scavenged and unlocked everything and I managed to find some funny little easter eggs along the way:

Greentooth in the basement where you interrogate the nazi.

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Quake3 rocket launcher key ring.

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Stumbled upon this radio in the labor camp level and heard some beeping that might be actual morse code. Translated it, and it said "ass ass titties". Found some other radios throughout the game but they had morse codeish things that were just gibberish.

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Oddly familiar contraption in this elevator in the level where the skyscraper is under construction.

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IDKFA.

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Just felt like I needed to share my newest creation. I'm pretty satisfied how this wallpaper turned out in the end.

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That render... oh good god.

solitaire

I'm missing big bank and the shotgun pack... can.. can I have both?

I've been working on a scene I'm planning on doing for UE4. It's been a struggle for me to get this stupid doorway to bake correctly. Just slapped on a basic material for now, I'm gonna add some bolts and other stuff with ndo2 next.

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Update: Added rest of the corridor for some context + some bolts and a simple mask to get some paint on it. Didn't figure out how to get the normal map from the paint out of my chrome bits though.

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All I can say is that the Irish brew the nectar of gods.

Kinda reminds me of windosill

Preordered for PC. Waiting for a month can't get any longer than this

It was fun while it lasted, played a couple of rounds but it started to feel boring after that. It felt like I was revisiting a game I've played before. Probably because Titanfall is a mashup of today's most popular fps games(BF, COD) and adding some robots to the mix.

Not saying it's a bad game. Every aspect of the game is really well done. I wasn't even annoyed that it's missing a server browser. It just isn't for me. I'm glad I got to test the beta.