I have been working on a port of a popular map from insurgency, below are some WIP screens:
Level Design TE-Singar
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Looks nice! I know what map this is based on 
Probably should add some sandbags/cover for the gatehouse.
If you are up for redoing it to reincorporate scale, and streamline the recreation of this map you could screenshot a vertical viewpoint of the map, and then convert it to dimensions of powers of 2, and then import it as a .png. of course you'll need to figure out a scale from the texture that fits the actual size. (50x actual dimension size).
A few suggestions.
Nice utilization of BSP, however, BSP usually isn't designed for art assets, unless you need fill in a gap, or say the walls of a building. It looks bad if it's trying to represent complex geometry (even fences) and it is also less efficient than using a mesh in most cases.
So I'd probably remove the concrete fence on the second photo, and replace it with something else.
It'd probably be better to utilize meshes for those cliffs too!
Increase the tesselation of the terrain. At the moment, it doesn't look too natural, ie the pointed vertices.
Aesthetic suggestion, find a different, dark less "vibrant" grass.
(Maybe some bushes too?)
You can find more materials for terrain here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Red Orchestra 2\ROGame\BrewedPC\Packages\EnvironmentalMaterials
and here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Red Orchestra 2\ROGame\BrewedPC\Packages\Props_Static
and also here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Red Orchestra 2\ROGame\BrewedPC\RSGame\Packages\EnvironmentalMaterials
Probably should add some sandbags/cover for the gatehouse.If you are up for redoing it to reincorporate scale, and streamline the recreation of this map you could screenshot a vertical viewpoint of the map, and then convert it to dimensions of powers of 2, and then import it as a .png. of course you'll need to figure out a scale from the texture that fits the actual size. (50x actual dimension size).
A few suggestions.
Nice utilization of BSP, however, BSP usually isn't designed for art assets, unless you need fill in a gap, or say the walls of a building. It looks bad if it's trying to represent complex geometry (even fences) and it is also less efficient than using a mesh in most cases.
So I'd probably remove the concrete fence on the second photo, and replace it with something else.
It'd probably be better to utilize meshes for those cliffs too!
Increase the tesselation of the terrain. At the moment, it doesn't look too natural, ie the pointed vertices.
Aesthetic suggestion, find a different, dark less "vibrant" grass.
(Maybe some bushes too?)
You can find more materials for terrain here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Red Orchestra 2\ROGame\BrewedPC\Packages\EnvironmentalMaterials
and here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Red Orchestra 2\ROGame\BrewedPC\Packages\Props_Static
and also here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Red Orchestra 2\ROGame\BrewedPC\RSGame\Packages\EnvironmentalMaterials
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OK thanks, at the moment I am just laying out the map - it will take a few passes adding detail, refining etc. Nice idea about finding scale. My experience of using UDK comes from unreal editor 2004 so it may take a while for me to get the required LOD.
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I'm not familiar with the map this one is based on. Could you provide some background on it, how it plays, and how it will fit into the RO2 universe?
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Yeah of course.
The map is based upon the Insurgency [Half Life 2 engine] map 'Sinjar'. Insurgency is a modern project realism game and has the same gameplay style as RO. I used to play the game back when it was an incipient mod.
The map will be adapted from the rough scale of the original (with objectives remaining similar). No doubt this will change after some beta testing. Also Insurgency has slower movement speeds, lower fog visibility, greater accuracy, no arty etc. These factors have to be taken into account when mapping.
The scenario basically takes place after an ambush along a road running the length of the map. The main action takes place between a small village held by defenders and the attacking position beneath the cliffs. The attackers must move there way around the map by taking objectives along the hill.
I should state this is not based on a real life conflict.
Some Background
Yeah of course.
The map is based upon the Insurgency [Half Life 2 engine] map 'Sinjar'. Insurgency is a modern project realism game and has the same gameplay style as RO. I used to play the game back when it was an incipient mod.
The map will be adapted from the rough scale of the original (with objectives remaining similar). No doubt this will change after some beta testing. Also Insurgency has slower movement speeds, lower fog visibility, greater accuracy, no arty etc. These factors have to be taken into account when mapping.
The scenario basically takes place after an ambush along a road running the length of the map. The main action takes place between a small village held by defenders and the attacking position beneath the cliffs. The attackers must move there way around the map by taking objectives along the hill.
I should state this is not based on a real life conflict.
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Oh god, this map.. at least the entire attacking team won't get rpg'ed coming out of spawn in RO2 lol
I feel this map would fit well in here. Although it'll be a massacre at the first objective, so definitely get some balancing going when you've got a good idea of the layout. I even feel like the two AA guns there should be destructible objectives.
That second objective should definitely be larger than the building it currently is in the standalone version of the game as well.
You don't need to implement artillery either (think Stalingrad Kessel) and it can just be aerial recon for each team.
Good luck with the project!!
I feel this map would fit well in here. Although it'll be a massacre at the first objective, so definitely get some balancing going when you've got a good idea of the layout. I even feel like the two AA guns there should be destructible objectives.
That second objective should definitely be larger than the building it currently is in the standalone version of the game as well.
You don't need to implement artillery either (think Stalingrad Kessel) and it can just be aerial recon for each team.
Good luck with the project!!
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I've been working hard on this one. A few more screens...just realized my computer has the game at lowest settings so probably will look slightly more polished on better machines.
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I've been working hard on this one. A few more screens...just realized my computer has the game at lowest settings so probably will look slightly more polished on better machines.
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Looks like you could also increase the terrain tessellation too, shouldn't affect performance too much.
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OK, at the 90% stage...almost ready for some testing! I'll get some screens together shortly
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Map Beta Release Thread: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.c...-beta-map-releases/2265211-te-singar-beta-0-1
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