Unfortunately I didn't have the time to work more on this and fix the many problems I found. Also, I could only do about half the stufdf I had planned. Oh well...
Since I won't be home for the weekend, tonight was my deadline.
Good luck I guess...
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Thanks JeanPaul, that sky is just a placeholder.
Managed to get some more done today:
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There are a few flipped faces on the ceiling, but I like how it turned out. Now I need to start filling those shelves with books and making the centerpiece fountain as well as the boat and a few floating tables and candles.
Thanks Lee3dee, but if you mean the weird lightning on the double staircases it's because I mirrored them but the normalmap got inverted because I rotated those faces 90º on the UVW, pretty dumb thing to do.
Here's where I'm at now:
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Now comes my favorite part: Texturing!
Small update. This morning I managed to get the basic geometry on one side into Unreal, I'll close off the other side and tweak a bit with the lightning later today.
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BTW: Don't mind the water it's just a placeholder. If anyone has any leads on how to make realtime environment reflections on Unreal I'd really appreciate a few hints.
I've been sidetracked by other stuff but finally I got some more time to work on my entry.
The problem I'm having is that the scene is just so darn big that I have to do a lot of work before I even have a little piece done and presenteable. I'm now working on each piece's UV maps and the basic textures.
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So far this is the corner I have already implemented on Unreal and ready to be tweaked. I'll have a lot more time to work on this next week so I hope I can make up for the time lost.
Thanks for the help all, I'll keep you posted on it.
I wonder when we'll be able to make levels in this environment!
Seriously I LoL'd trough the entire thing...
"My son learned that it's easier to kill cyborgs with grenades than a machinegun"
Thanks guys.
I really choose Necrons because it's my favorite race in Dawn of War and they are cheap to collect. I'll make cheap conversions of regular Necron Warriors into Immortals and Flayed Ones like below and build my own Monolith from scratch.
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With 2 of the Necron Battleforces I'll eventually purchase I'll be able to have 30 warriors, 13 Immortals and 13 Flayed Ones, plus the 14 scarabs and 6 destroyers for a cheap U$120 (since I already have all the hobby tools and paints). Add in a Lord on foot and a Lord with Destroyer body with the scratchbuilt Monolith and I have a 2000pt army under U$ 160,00. With bitz I have and magnets I can easily make my 6 destroyers with swappable weapons so that I can field 3 regular and 3 heavy ones.
I can then purchase Tomb Spiders, Wraiths and Pariahs in the long run and not hurt my wallet too much.
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Of course they are supplied unpainted and in plastic sprues, but it's going to be the start of my little necron army.
Thanks guys!
About the eyes, I want him to feel a little ambiguous (sp?) like a distant cousin of Glados 
There is a voice actor recording some lines for him and it will add a lot of character to Lil'ChewChew.
The Lil'ChewChew scribbled painting on the side is something the map author added and it kinda of stayed like that. I never really tried to change it but since it's not the first time it's brought up I'll see what I can do.
Thanks again, I'll see if I can cap some videos of him animated. He now really chews enemies with a Clank! hehe
lol thanks that umm... fixed it 
Yeah I'm that new to things.. .and sleep deprived 
Ok, managed to fix my normalmaps problems after some reading, and also nailed a few problems with my UVW mapping. Here is the current mesh rendered in max:
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But then I imported it in UnrealEd, setup my materials and I still get some freaky stuff. For instance, take a look at the two bottom viewports. I don't know why but they won't display correctly. No meshes show up in them, but the two top ones are fine. I couldn't find a solution anywhere. Now that I know the issue is with UnrealEd and not my model though, I could move on to other things.
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Now I still get the black lines despite the fact that my normalmaps are ok, check out the difference from UT3 to Max render with the same textures and materials:
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Hey guys, having a lot of trouble here 
My imported meshes aren't showing on some viewports!
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Also, my model looks like crap ingame. I wonder if it's my normalmaps that are the problem, they seem messy to me...
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Any help is much appreciated
Edit:
I just went back to max and noticed that something is very wrong with the model/maps, I don't know what. Take a look at a render with no lights on the scene (the default max lightning) and how strange it looks. What could cause so much inconsistency between surfaces like that?
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Thanks guys, it's really a leap from Source to UnrealEd. The material editor is sooooo neat I love it!
Now another modelling question. Should I bevel the edges of my models, like the pillars below (low and hipoly models in the image)
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Thanks Slainchild!
What do you mean by a lightmap UV? Do I need to have one extra set of UVs for the lightmaps for any reason, can't I just use my basic UVW mapping for it just as I do for diffuse etc?
Also, here's a question concerning UVWs:
How do I make a section of my model use a small tileable texzture (if even possible)
For instance: The whole pillars and platforms are one big mesh, say that I wanted to make this trim here use a small portion of my texture sheet, how can I do this? Any links to tutorials or examples?
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So I've decided to enter the Scene from a movie competittion from Gameartist.net
Here's my moodboard, should be self-explanatory:
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I decided to take this opportunity and also learn a little bit about the Unreal engine. I've never done such a large scene before and it's proving to be quite a challenge, I'm really enjoying this!
Here is some of my progress so far:
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Now I have a couple of questions:
Does it matter if my mesh is all broken up into pieces for the engine to render? I'm sure this will never become a playable level, but at least the lightning must work correctly (I can use engine created lightmaps). I guess what I want to know is if I can leave holes and open seams in my mesh (I know they are bad for occluding, but performance is not a priority here).
For example. Look at the way I made the bookcases and collums:
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As you can see they are all separate meshes just meeting at the edges, their vertices are not welded. Is that a problem or is that ok to be done?
I'll likely have a ton more questions later 
part of that 3000% sale increase via steam
Well deserved man, congrats!
I'm in as well, let's see what comes out of it. http://www.game-artist.net/forums/scene ... #post79693
