WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

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very much in progress:

[Jetsetlemming]

You'd think this map would be pretty taxing but it runs about equal to the Parish finale for me- a couple frames less than the rest of the game, but nothing to whine about. The map's just about guaranteed to spawn a tank or witch or both, for reasons I'm unsure of. I guess the director likes the grass or something. It's also super heavy on the hordes.

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little progress made this sunday (fast compile):

[Sentura]

you should probably make displacements out of that snow,..

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I originally wanted this map to be big and run smoothly on older machines too, but I'm indeed considering your suggestion.

[Sentura]

displacements do not take up more memory or lessen peformance worse than brushes, so it should be a no brainer.

[sarge mat]

A total reboot of a L4D campaign I posted work in progress of here before. Only put the most important buildings in at the moment, lighting is also very odd need to spent time with that

[Vilham]

displacements do not take up more memory or lessen peformance worse than brushes, so it should be a no brainer.

yeah.

Just make sure you place nodraw brushes to match the general terrain to ensure culling.

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thanks, both of you. I will work on the snow

[Vilham]

ok, how do I make a diamond shaped brush in unreal? Ive tried but it keeps causing UT3 editor to crash.

[Mr. Happy]

displacements actually increase performance over say func_detail or world. a hundred disp tri's is worth at leas several times fewer than brush tris

[Vilham]

finally managed to make a diamond and boy was it a pain in the arse.

[Serenius]

finally managed to make a diamond and boy was it a pain in the arse.

Sphere brush with lots of vertex manipulation?

[Vilham]

cone brush then extruded the top face 2x and then vertex manipulation.

Had to select the top level of verticies then tried to centre the pivot, but that placed it totally wrong, so had to snap pivot to grid on Front and side cameras then scale to ensure the verts stay in line with the centre of the diamond

[Serenius]

Yeah, that does sound painful.