Compilation of RO2 Map Making Tips and Tutorials

[danh]

Join the Red Orchestra 2 Map Maker's Guild to find other map makers to socialize with and to learn from.

General Tips:
Beware of! VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ
General Tips and Tricks from Danh VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ

General Tutorials:
RO2 Level Design Basics Explained VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ
How to make your first Red Orchestra 2 Map VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ
How to be more efficient when creating maps

Kismet
How to understand Kismet VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ

Static Mesh
How to make your first Destructible
How to place down your first Static Mesh
How to place down Trenches like a boss

Lighting
UDK Tutorial: Daytime Lighting Part 1/6 - YouTube
UDK Tutorial: Night Time Lighting Part 1/7 - YouTube

Cover and bots
How to place Cover Nodes
How to place down an array of objects such as pylons
Bots in PIE?

Misc.
How to spawn Fixed MG's
How to use ROWaterVolume to slow player
Bullet penetration
How do we place MG guns? well!
Porting Old Maps into RO2:
Fog in SDK?
no arty volumes

Specific Problems:
Can't open more than one SDK anymore?
Spawn Protection Not Resetting During Second Round

Performance:
Optimizing UE3 Levels
General Map Performance Guidelines
Forcing lowest LOD on static mesh objects

Assets:
Modular Buildings Pack

UDK Related Tutorials:
Unreal Engine 3 Video Tutorials VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ
Hourences VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ
Raven67854 YouTube UDK Video tutorials VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST WATCH
Chris Albeluhn VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ
IceCreamYou VERY HELPFUL! THIS IS A MUST READ
Unreal Technology UDK Hotkeys and Shortcuts

[danh]

Don't give up. This is a world that you are creating from your imagination for yourself and for others to enjoy. You are bringing a new experience to everyone. What you can make is limited only by the effort you put in. So once again, don't give up!

[danh]

Added a ton of new tutorials!

[Extension7]

You're crazy dan! :P Thanks for the tuts I'll be using these soon ^_^

[kathmandu]

thanks again!

[Yoshiro]

Dahn, I strongly recommend you get these into the Wiki

[danh]

I will try this weekend.

[gyps]

I'm surprised none of the forum mods have moved em into a sigle thread or single thread and sticked to link em together

[PsychoPigeon]

I gave up, there's just so much stuff in there.

I loved making maps for Napoleonic Wars, the game had an inbuilt editor
http://youtu.be/wJayiSQG-eU

[danh]

Originally Posted by PsychoPigeon

I gave up, there's just so much stuff in there.

I loved making maps for Napoleonic Wars, the game had an inbuilt editor
http://youtu.be/wJayiSQG-eU

Read my second post!

[gyps]

PsychoPigeon dont give up

dahn and many of the others are willing to help

I've only just started myself, and it's quite a daunting task, wished i'd seen the thing on locking terrain earlier lol chasing terrain that kept moving when i draged by accident was interesting to say the least - and produced a few well chosen word from me

but with dahn guides and a bit of stcking at it i'm starting to get somewhere

[danh]

I will add more tips and tutorials (hmg, advance kismet, bots, etc)

[danh]

Added a few more tutorials.

[danh]

Don't forget to join the Red Orchestra 2 Map Maker's Guild to find other map makers to socialize with and to learn from.

[danh]

Added another general UDK tutorial

[danh]

I added another UDK related tutorial. People really need to watch these videos. RO2 uses the UNREAL ENGINE so the UDK tutorials are very useful here. I see many questions asked on the forum with answers that can be found in the UDK tutorials. Take a look at the UDK related tutorials and there are text tutorials and video tutorials. Just pick whichever suits you best and try to get through them all or just try the tutorials that you need.

I have seen/read many of these tutorials so they are great for learning the basics.