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Yoshiro · Feb 17, 2011

ZeRoY said:
An excellent tip thanks!

The art team does something similar here when the LD's hand off maps to them.

Flogger23m · Feb 18, 2011

Nothing to add aside from commenting on how nice your WIPs look.

I'd love to give mapping a try for RO2, but my head would probably explode from the complexity.

Keep up the good work.

Drecks · Feb 18, 2011

Flogger23m said:
I'd love to give mapping a try for RO2, but my head would probably explode from the complexity.

You can make it as complex as you want.
Get the UDK and take a look.
People are willing to help you on.

verbii · Feb 20, 2011

Drecks said:
You can make it as complex as you want.
Get the UDK and take a look.
People are willing to help you on.

Indeed the first time you make a room and maybe a tunnel or 2 and your like ooo, not bad, then you add a light and your like that looks ****ing pimpin....and then it goes on from there ;D

Xendance · Feb 21, 2011

Also, get familiar with terrain.

ductape3 · Mar 12, 2011

Starting off with udk. For a level in stalingrad with piles of rubble, would it be better to start off with terrain for a base so that I can adjust for the heapin mounds of debris, or work w bsp and try to use static meshes

Xendance · Mar 12, 2011

Personally I always put down terrain first and use that as a base to build on.

Lt_Kettch · Mar 12, 2011

Terrain first anything else makes no sense

smokeythebear · Mar 13, 2011

Lt_Kettch said:
Terrain first anything else makes no sense

Unless your working on a city map

husbert · Mar 13, 2011

i have some questions

1) are there any textures available for jungle or normal textures ?

for example grass, greenery and sand
i only found these "ut" textures in the udk standard download

2) how large should be the worldcube for a medium sized infantry map, do i need a worldcube like in ro?

1uu = 2cm , i thought about 50000x50000x50000

EvilHobo · Mar 13, 2011

smokeythebear said:
Unless your working on a city map

Pretty much. I start with buildings and then arrange a layout.

smokeythebear · Mar 13, 2011

husbert said:
i have some questions

1) are there any textures available for jungle or normal textures ?

for example grass, greenery and sand
i only found these "ut" textures in the udk standard download

2) how large should be the worldcube for a medium sized infantry map, do i need a worldcube like in ro?

1uu = 2cm , i thought about 50000x50000x50000

1) Export textures from RO into the UDK for now if you are uncomfortable making your own. If you are unsure how I can make a quick step by step for you.

2) Yes you need a world cube, or 6 walls if it's additive. Make your cut a power of two though because it will help with optimization. It doesnt really matter how large it is.
32768x32768x32768 should be fine.

Xendance · Mar 14, 2011

There's no "worldcube" since it's all additive. You just place a skydome static mesh (maybe add another one so that the two domes make a sphere) and BAM, you have your sky.
Then just scale the dome(s) so that it looks like a sky.

husbert · Mar 14, 2011

smokeythebear said:
1) Export textures from RO into the UDK for now if you are uncomfortable making your own. If you are unsure how I can make a quick step by step for you.

i tried it with UDK option "import" in the content browser,
but i didnt find any textures in the RO textures folder.

and i can save the textures only to utx (package) and dds (single texture) in ro sdk

Drecks · Mar 14, 2011

I'm a cheap bastard as I always use other peoples info.

You will find so much info about making and importing stuff for
the UDK over at

http://www.hourences.com/tutorials/

He covers all the steps you need to know to get a start.

Start with his material tutorials. Then head over to his
terrain tutorials. Another good advice might be to take a look in the levels provided with the UDK. There you could have noticed there ain't a skybox.

Another good resource is this site.

http://www.lilchips.com/freeue3.asp

Here you can find sky textures and meshes. And you can download
some example maps. They will give you a very good inside view on whats going on.

Another favourite link is this site

http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/3D_Tutorials.html

Here you will find some great tutorials on material and lightning in
your map. These people did a great job making tutorials. Thumbs up.......

Why use RO textures. Try to make them yourself. It ain't that hard.

husbert · Mar 14, 2011

thx all
found some useful textures

some informations for beginners like me:
first i made my terrain 32768 , then i noticed that its patches not uu.
i just wonderred why building the lights takes so long

so i checked that 1 patch is 256 uus and made the terrain 128x 128 patches. (thats 32768 uu said my calc

)

now its working :

Spoiler!

smokeythebear · Mar 14, 2011

husbert said:
i tried it with UDK option "import" in the content browser,
but i didnt find any textures in the RO textures folder.

and i can save the textures only to utx (package) and dds (single texture) in ro sdk

If you have photoshop, get the dds plugin. It is available for gimp too which is free. After you export textures as dds from ROSDK you can change them to bmp files.

Then in UDK import them into a new package as a texture. Then make a new material and use your texture as a texture sample in the material editor. Then connect the texture sample to the diffuse node.

For making quick but decent looking normal maps you can get crazy bump.

-=}WoLvErInE{=- · Mar 15, 2011

Howdy All! I'm New here as you can see 1ST post..lol. i must say I'm really / truly excited for games , and i can't wait just like everyone else ( I'm Sure ) to get my hands on it.

I've seen all the pic's and videos. i must say they all look awesome, and not to mention the game is made with the best game engine in the world!

I've been working with the Unreal Engine for 10+ years as it has evolved through the years, and it's only getting better.

So in other words give me the damn Editor dammit...lol Just Kidding off course. I'll sit herein my corner and wait patiently like everyone else

I've also done few things for America's Army and few other games.

anyways see you all around , cant wait to be a part of the community and make some fun maps to play on

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LATTEH · Mar 15, 2011

your lighthouse puts my lighthouse in my map to shame D: but either way your maps look awesome!

smokeythebear · Mar 15, 2011

Nice looking maps man. I hope your working on something for ro2

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