Screenshots

[jjensson]

I always wanted to post in this thread. I know it's not Quake, hope you can forgive me:

[lvlshot]http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee123/jjensson/newest_vert_walkways.jpg[/lvlshot]

This map i build following a series of video tutorials, but the lighting is made by me.
UE3 combines lightmaps (on bsp AND models), dynamic lighting and shadows, normal mapping and specularity, and vertex lighting, all combined at the mappers discretion. Has great tools too.

OK, now flame me
jj

PS: Here is a lightmapped version of the catwalks. Not as punchy, more realistic. I cannot decide between the two:

[lvlshot]http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee123/jjensson/LM256.jpg[/lvlshot]

[dichtfux]

Looks cool, but won't run on my box.

OK, now flame me

What for?

[jjensson]

Looks cool, but won't run on my box.

It runs better than you think. Runs very good on an overclocked Geforce 7950GT (nice settings + 1280px).

What for?

I remember the thread in the general section, where most of the Q3W guys slammed the new UT3. I'm still expecting strange reactions...

[Silicone_Milk]

Ah but this is LEM, not GD

The LEM community has a common love of all things mapping/modeling regardless of the enginer used. If we didnt it would be almost as silly as artists feuding over if a person painted with watercolor or oil paint.

Now, on to your screenshot, looks quite excellent. I didn't buy UT3 unfortunately because it wanted my computer to have a dual-core processor optimizer installed to keep the game from crashing on startup. This caused my computer to have frequent blue screen of death errors though.

[Silicone_Milk]

And wait, that's just an editor shot? Or does the editor just "pause" the game and let you edit it on the spot?

Im intrigued by this choice in lighting method. I want to get the editor now :P

[jjensson]

Editor shot with all stuff hidden and perspective view maxed. But you can play in the editor (sort of - extra window) for testing purposes.

Here you can see the other stuff including the light actors:

[lvlshot]http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee123/jjensson/editor.jpg[/lvlshot]

BTW, as you can see, i upped the lightmap res on the catwalk meshes to 256. Eats more VRAM but sure looks nice. The lift and the door only work with dynamic lighting (because they move). The doorframe itself is vertex, some other (smaller) stuff too. But all surfaces can receive dynamic lighting (like stencils or even, i think, soft shadows from players, etc.)

Man, this month i'm starting my own map. Time for planning and drawing i think.
jj

PS: Enough UE3 pics, i'm feeling like spamming the thread. If someone is interested i can make an extra thread for this. Or just visit the EPIC forums...

[dichtfux]

I'm always happy to see different things in here.

[Fjoggs]

Looks cool! Spam away, this thread needs all the activity it can get!

[g0th-]

How long does it take to compile that map in unreal3?
It looks good

[Fjoggs]

Also, for images that big, use the [lvlshot] tag

[obsidian]

Done.


As a general reminder to everyone, try to be 56K friendly. A bit of resizing and JPG compression goes a long way. Photobucket thumbnails are good too.

[jjensson]

How long does it take to compile that map in unreal3?
It looks good

There are 2 rooms and because of lightmaps on static meshes and higher lightmap resolution it takes a bit longer than normal - between 2:30 and 3 min.
jj

PS: I tried to make the screens smaller, but didn't found the right tag. I'll use lvlshot next time. Thanks!

[obsidian]

Curious, how does it stand with Unreal editing these days, is it drop a few structural brushes and then add a plethora of models? Or is there still a significant amount of brushwork? I'm referring to the stock Unreal 3 maps, not custom ones.

I've been playing through Gears of War on PC and it looks like the whole thing is made up of models. Good in some ways (high visual fidelity) bad in others (repetitive - they use some models waaaaay too much).

[g0th-]

Its all models in the stock maps.

Basically you don't even use brushes for covering of vis. I looked at some maps in the ut3 editor and saw that it had 2200+ models in it. And the hole map was probably around atleast 500 k tris

[rgoer]

when I was working with the unreal 3 engine, we would get regular drops of gears content before gears shipped... gears levels had a handful of huge brushes defining floors, some walls in some places, etc, and then everything else was meshes

you could open up that first level of gears and if you hit w to turn off meshes in the renderer you were left with something like 8 brushes

[blushing_bride]

I've been admiring the work in this thread since it was on about page 30, so I thought I would contribute after lurking for so long (ignore framerate as screens taken in the editor on a low end system).

[lvlshot]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/blushing/c1_2.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/blushing/c1_1.jpg[/lvlshot]

[obsidian]

Gee wiz... those are nice textures. Nice use of normal maps. High-poly model generated?

Looks a little too "clean" though, slap some decals here and there to give it that "aged" look.

[g0th-]

Yeah that looks very nice

[Pext]

reminds me of tombraider 1

[blushing_bride]

Gee wiz... those are nice textures. Nice use of normal maps. High-poly model generated?

Looks a little too "clean" though, slap some decals here and there to give it that "aged" look.

Some of the textures were generated from models in max (which im currently learning how to use hence the entire map is made in max). The other textures are just photo sourced and run through the nvidia normal map plugin.

Good idea with the decals, i was thinking of slapping lots in the exterior area to weather it a little.

[phantazm11]

Love the pillars in the first shot. Great work.

[g0th-]

A map for the "defrag" mod Q4RUN that I been working on. Still not really happy about the lightning and the cave texture resolution need some more love. Probably releasing this tomorrow at the q4run site http://q4run.thetobi.eu/
[lvlshot]http://www.g0th.se/pics/q4run01/q4_run04.jpg[/lvlshot]
[lvlshot]http://www.g0th.se/pics/q4run01/q4_run05.jpg[/lvlshot]

some more and earlier shots:
http://www.g0th.se/pics/q4run01/q4_run01.jpg
http://www.g0th.se/pics/q4run01/q4_run02.jpg
http://www.g0th.se/pics/q4run01/q4_run03.jpg

[wattro]

definitely looks way too dark

[pjw]

definitely looks way too dark

It doesn't look too dark to me--I like it.
The light level does look maybe a little "samey" overall--that 02 shot especially needs some lovin', but I like the overall look of it.

Checking out the mod...sounds interesting.

[Hr.O]

definitely looks way too dark

Guess you haven't played D3 yet